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A former colleague who's also a close friend and the single smartest guy I've ever met is one of the Creative Directors on this project. I didn't know that this was what he'd been directing until today, but I'm not even remotely surprised. The guy's a genius.

 

I'm super stoked to see this in action for myself.

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there goes OR to outdated land

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there goes OR to outdated land

 

Well not really as this product is a long ways off from being consumer ready. 2017/2018 - sure!

 

This has a lot of potential, I can already imagine flying in a holographic 3D cockpit that allows me to flip switches and press buttons. Hopefully MS can deliver on this.

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I am impressed that Microsoft comes across as so "awesome" as of late. Didn't expect that at all.

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... Another thought . This thing might actually make a treadmill fun. Imagine "run zombies" on this

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This has practically zero application as a VR replacement, and especially so for simming.

AR is simply a completely different beast than VR. I have no doubts this will be great to have along the OR; but saying something like the OR is now obsolete is silliness of the highest order.

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That's cool, but one of the first thing that came to my mind was.....how much will that cost?

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This has practically zero application as a VR replacement, and especially so for simming.

AR is simply a completely different beast than VR. I have no doubts this will be great to have along the OR; but saying something like the OR is now obsolete is silliness of the highest order.

 

yeah well... the steam train wasn't going to get very far either ;)

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This has practically zero application as a VR replacement, and especially so for simming.

AR is simply a completely different beast than VR. I have no doubts this will be great to have along the OR; but saying something like the OR is now obsolete is silliness of the highest order.

 

Agreed. It's also very much a 'concept' at this point. Microsoft has yet to reveal it working in action.

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It's also very much a 'concept' at this point. Microsoft has yet to reveal it working in action.

 

Did you read the wired article? It sounds like it works pretty well for a 'concept'.

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I saw the Microsoft reveal. There was no real technology demonstrated in that reveal apart from some slides and photos, there was no demonstrator. I cant find the link to the wired article, did they get access to the hardware? Also more to the point, what Cobra said still stands, AR = augmented reality is quite a different concept to VR = Virtual reality.

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I cant find the link to the wired article, did they get access to the hardware?

 

 

I know they are very different. I have a Rift and I will have a Castar rig this summer as well. I was responding specifically to what you said about 'concept'.

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I saw the Microsoft reveal. There was no real technology demonstrated in that reveal apart from some slides and photos, there was no demonstrator. I cant find the link to the wired article, did they get access to the hardware? Also more to the point, what Cobra said still stands, AR = augmented reality is quite a different concept to VR = Virtual reality.

Actually there was a full demo in the reveal where they actually used the headset to create a 3D plan and mock of a quadcopter - they also let all journalists experience a full demo of working units after the reveal - of which many have written their account.

 

The only application for sims that I can imagine flows from the "on Mars" demo.... I wonder if it could surround my desk with enough immersion /resolution for me to believe I am in a cockpit looking out???

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I constantly see some called hyper uber VR revolutions and so far there is no any product widely distributed, instead good marketing movies only.

 

Wake me up when it is as popular as laptops :]

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