Chattycast Special Edition: Windows 10 and Microsoft HoloLens
In which the crew assembles and wrangles Briefcase Man to talk about all the news out of Microsoft's Windows 10 conference.
It's only mid-week, so what's this podcast doing here? Following today's Microsoft conference, the Chattycast crew assembles and grabs a certain Briefcase-wielding man to talk about all the news from the announcement. We talk about Windows 10, HoloLens, Cortana, Xbox One streaming, and yes, even that Battletoads t-shirt.
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replySteve Watts posted a new article, Chattycast Special Edition: Windows 10 and Microsoft HoloLens
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Hey, it's the Chattycast!
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Can you give me a 10 word summary? Is it cool or is it whack?
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Congratulations on posting to this thread!
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That's not even 10 words. I want my money back!
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TL DR;
Microsoft has announced a head mounted display with augmented reality. They are marketing it as holograms, but it requires wearing an autonomous computing device on your head. The human interface will probably combine head and eye tracking as well as gesture control. It is neat to see another company enter the head mounted display market.
Cortana is on Windows now, so you can ask her if you should wear a jacket or not. I talked about how I wish they would create more offline voice assistant services.
Battletoads is not coming out yet.
I am not going bring my HoloLens to the bathroom unless they come up with an augmented reality killer app for when you poop.
Daniel kept calling me "Ah Seef" on the podcast. People always foreignize my name.
Listen for LOLs.-
Thanks, I'll give it a listen tomorrow.
It's weird that it requires a big external computer, I wonder if they are going to work towards a solution that pairs with your phone or a desktop computer.-
Hololens is a computer and works by itself.
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Blame my latino blood!
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Foreignize? As if.
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But this reply was 10 words.
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Woah.
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That holoLens is such a neat idea. I'm excited to see it.
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Is the hope that you can pin certain windows to certain walls in your home? Like if I walk into a room does the display know - oh you're in the kitchen, here's your recipe library/app on the fridge? Or you're in your bed and your porn library is on the ceiling?
A few of the videos seemed to allow the viewer to infer that without specifically saying it.-
Just finished. Is there more information about apps for it? With a computer on your head, I assume a lot of the heavy lifting will need to be done by a computer that streams wirelessly to the device to keep battery life acceptable. And if that is not the idea right now, I think a lot more power could be leveraged if that is how it is done.
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They were pretty cagey about software. An SDK will be made available around the Windows 10 launch window.
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I honestly didn't see it, I was off buying amiibos.
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