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Well, MS believes in the Holodeck idea anyway by skip 05/03/2015, 12:35pm PDT
fucking newbie wrote:

At least, that's what I'm getting out of the article on the frontpage, and since none of you read it here's a link for you lazy fucks.

Anyway. Maybe it's just the boys on Gizmodo and their desperation for a paycheck, but what they seem to be pushing is a gaming experience where the focus is on seamless input and multipurpose hardware because that's what a developer should be delivering according to Microsoft - not something capable of flawless communication, high performance, compatibility with a massive proportion of games, or anything else. Microsoft and possibly the industry's formula for success is that if your device doesn't work as an entertainment center, toast bread, and powerwash orfices with the minimum possible difficulty (according to their thinking, not reality) interfacing with your wishes moment to moment, it's going to fail in the marketplace.


The HoloLens will be at E3.

Here's the YT channel to watch more vids about it: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT2rZIAL-zNqeK1OmLLUa6g

I don't know. Maybe I'm getting old, but the "Internet of Everything" isn't as appealing as it was a few years ago. Nobody knows what to say when you ask what happens when that sensor on your garbage can breaks and you're left with an overpriced bucket. Or when your dishwasher starts fucking up notifications. Not to mention, these all run on different apps and I'm not interested in having a different app for every appliance and getting nonstop notifications that my vacuum bag needs to be changed. It would be nice if it were all on one platform, but I don't see that happening easily.

The uses for the HoloLens they've shown so far include a weather bubble and Skype notifications on your wall, which seems myopic. I realize notifications are the current hotness, but if Apple can't sell its watch on the promise of notification changes, I don't know that this will. My phone bothers me enough with reminders and notifications. I want my walls to be left alone.
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Is Microsoft still watching Star Trek? Do they think XBONE+KINECT=Holodeck? by fucking newbie 06/18/2013, 11:04am PDT NEW
    Not sure that had a point. by fucking newbie 06/18/2013, 11:06am PDT NEW
    Re: Is Microsoft still watching Star Trek? Do they think XBONE+KINECT=Holodeck? by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/18/2013, 6:23pm PDT NEW
        Goddammit, Paul. The point was the direction of the industry, not the interface. NT by fucking newbie 06/18/2013, 7:49pm PDT NEW
    Too many buttons? by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/18/2013, 6:47pm PDT NEW
    Well, MS believes in the Holodeck idea anyway by skip 05/03/2015, 12:35pm PDT NEW
        Ubiquitous holographic clutter by This fridge is a smart model 05/03/2015, 1:37pm PDT NEW
            Because it's not like we don't have enough digital hoarding by skip 05/03/2015, 2:17pm PDT NEW
                The Friendly Clingy Botnet by Mysterio's VR Projector 05/03/2015, 3:00pm PDT NEW
                    Re: The Friendly Clingy Botnet by skip 05/03/2015, 3:35pm PDT NEW
                        I'm sorry, but why is everyone ignoring the giant porn elephant in this room. NT by Fullofkittens 05/03/2015, 6:58pm PDT NEW
                            Tell me more about the holosmut user experience NT by I naively didn't consider it 05/03/2015, 8:11pm PDT NEW
            I know a guy whose smarthouse already does this sanely and without ugly shades by serial malcontent 05/04/2015, 12:48am PDT NEW
        The actual problem with VR and AR by Entropy Stew 05/04/2015, 6:34am PDT NEW
 
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