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Microsoft Trumps Virtual Reality with HoloLens

Microsoft is quietly making great advances in hologram technology. Even besting Virtual Reality (VR) breakthrough efforts by other tech companies. Microsoft HoloLens, otherwise known as project Baraboo, is the first self-contained, augmented reality, holographic computer that enables users to engage their digital content and interact with holograms around them.


Microsoft is quietly making great advances in hologram technology. Even besting Virtual Reality (VR) breakthrough efforts by other tech companies. Microsoft HoloLens, otherwise known as project Baraboo, is the first self-contained, augmented reality, holographic computer that enables users to engage their digital content and interact with holograms around them.

How Microsoft HoloLens Work

Microsoft HoloLens is a headset hologram that is used like goggles. Only much better. Even better than VR to a certain extent. The only ones who can see the hologram world are the users wearing the Microsoft HoloLens. Of course, users of the HoloLens can see their surroundings in full 3D form.

The goggles themselves track the users’ movements, watch their gaze and transform what they see into 3D images by blasting light into the eyes. The goggles also have cameras so they know where the furniture, appliances, walls, etc. are located, so users don’t need to worry about bumping into something accidentally.

The information collected by the camera project 3D images on top or even inside the things users are looking at. People can also use Microsoft HoloLens in chatting through Skype. Simply access the camera in the goggles so that the person you are talking to can see through your eyes. Talk about seeing things through people’s eyes, literally!

Microsoft HoloLens Components

The optics of the Microsoft HoloLens is a passthrough device. That’s why you can still see the real objects around but there are 3D images produced right in front of you. HoloLens uses total internal reflection that monitors the gaze of the eyes too.

Overall, the HoloLens have four sensors. Two “environment understanding cameras,” a depth camera, an ambient light sensor, and a 2MP photo/HD video camera. These sensors work with optics coordination. The Holographic Processing Unit (HPU)1.0 stores and processes all the information. This is the most vital part in the architecture of the Microsoft HoloLens.

Microsoft’s HoloLens technology is giving VR a run for its money. With its integration with architecture and engineering software as well as medical and surgical applications, it is no doubt that this product is going to change the future of construction, manufacturing, and medical science. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg! We can’t wait to see how hologram technology is going to change the world.

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