Introducing the HoloLens

The HoloLens was created by Microsoft to bring virtual reality to your living room. The holoLens uses hologram technology to bring apps and games alive anywhere. The HoloLens can be used with a 3D printer to create your own 3D image to print out and you will not be limited to using a monitor or television screen to design or watch what you wish. It has been said, that NASA will use the HoloLens to bring a holographic image of space to life, rather than having to go into space. The HoloLens will be lightweight and adjustable and will not have any cords, phones, wires or tethers and has built-in spatial sound.

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Enhancing reality with Microsoft’s holographic helmet

22 January 2015 Last updated at 03:52 GMT

Microsoft has unveiled ‘HoloLens’ – a standalone wireless helmet which creates holographic illusions in the wearer’s field of view.

Unlike the Oculus Rift and other virtual reality devices, the HoloLens creates augmented reality, allowing users to interact with virtual objects that live in their actual surroundings.

Microsoft launched the hardware at an event outlining more details of Windows 10, its forthcoming operating system. It hopes HoloLens will help entice developers to code for the new software, which is out later this year.

Industry experts who tried the headset were cautiously optimistic for HoloLens’ use in certain scenarios. “It is clear that this new immersive form of augmented reality could make a powerful and compelling gaming platform as well as an efficient collaborative tool for commercial deployments,” said Pier Harding-Rolls, a gaming analyst at IHS.

“However, we do not believe that a consumer offer for HoloLens is likely to be launched in the very near term and, considering the proprietary technology involved, we believe the price point when released will make this a niche consumer proposition in the early cycle.”

HoloLens will compete with other start-ups promising augmented reality. Google has heavily invested in Magic Leap, a company that claims to be developing similar augmented reality technology, although it has not shown it off yet.