[QUOTE=Revenge282;47015407]Interesting thoughts. Care to elaborate? Preferably beyond the point of initial thought?[/QUOTE]
Sure.
First of all it looks terrible and you look like a tool wearing one, same as google glass.
There is no footage at all of it actually being used, its all pre-rendered shit. And don't get me started on the actual uses they showed. The engineering bit was hilariously bad, its like the guy who made the video hasn't even seen a CAD program, everything that they did in that demo could be done faster and more efficiently with today's methods.
There isn't any technology that I know of that would give you the transparency options that you want for a device like that. When its inactive the screen will still be dark and feel like you are wearing shades, and any object rendered on the screen will always be slightly transparent.
Motion Tracking is also pretty much impossible to do real-time without things bobbing up and down and sliding all over the place. Take a look at how hard it is to do already with recorded footage and having motion tracking software with powerful computers. Even the very fucking presentation video has tracking issues.
Microsoft is trying to jump on the VR/AR bandwagon and this will cost them a lot of money. This is nothing but another delirious fantasy by Microsoft. Remember Kinect demo's (Milo anyone?) and what Microsoft made it out to be and what it became?
Mark my words, once the reviews start coming in you will see how useless this truly is. No doubt someone will come up with cool uses for it but it will never become anything more than a novelty item.
[QUOTE=Buck.;47015535]Sure.
First of all it looks terrible and you look like a tool wearing one, same as google glass.
There is no footage at all of it actually being used, its all pre-rendered shit. And don't get me started on the actual uses they showed. The engineering bit was hilariously bad, its like the guy who made the video hasn't even seen a CAD program, everything that they did in that demo could be done faster and more efficiently with today's methods.
There isn't any technology that I know of that would give you the transparency options that you want for a device like that. When its inactive the screen will still be dark and feel like you are wearing shades, and any object rendered on the screen will always be slightly transparent.
Motion Tracking is also pretty much impossible to do real-time without things bobbing up and down and sliding all over the place. Take a look at how hard it is to do already with recorded footage and having motion tracking software with powerful computers. Even the very fucking presentation video has tracking issues.
Microsoft is trying to jump on the VR/AR bandwagon and this will cost them a lot of money. This is nothing but another delirious fantasy by Microsoft. Remember Kinect demo's (Milo anyone?) and what Microsoft made it out to be and what it became?
Mark my words, once the reviews start coming in you will see how useless this truly is. No doubt someone will come up with cool uses for it but it will never become anything more than a novelty item.[/QUOTE]
Didn't Microsoft let people go try it and they found that it was actually really solid?
[QUOTE=Bentham;47015795]Didn't Microsoft let people go try it and they found that it was actually really solid?[/QUOTE]
Regardless, I will remain skeptical until it's outside of the Microsoft's controlled environment and in the hands of consumers.
[QUOTE=Buck.;47015896]Regardless, I will remain skeptical until it's outside of the Microsoft's controlled environment and in the hands of consumers.[/QUOTE]
I think there's a fine line between being critical (which you should be) and just saying something's going to be shit.
I don't really see this product being all that useful (though it could be cool for tabletop games?), but it's cool nonetheless, especially if it works as well as multiple sources have reported (it might). Then again I think Kinect is a neat idea.
meanwhile on bbc
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[QUOTE=Techbot;47036085]meanwhile on bbc
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Ah, I see the new series of Doctor Who has started.
[QUOTE=NotMeh;46988670]so uhh, the future is now?[/QUOTE]
The future is never, you are constantly looking into the past, and what you see and hear is older the longer away from you it is.
While the delays usually are meaningless, the whole concept in and itself is utterly terrifying.
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