Summary:
An article on Microsoft’s Mixed Reality Platform and HoloLens Technology
Comments:
- Microsoft released the Mixed Reality Platform and included in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
- HoloLens was introduced as a development kit in the fall(October) of CY2016
- HoloLens supports Mixed Reality(MR) and UWP apps(aka Universal Windows Platform apps)
- MR in the simplest term is ‘hybrid reality – a mixed version of the real and virtual world creating an enviroment where both physical and digital objects co-exist.
- Windows MR is a platform available on Windows 10 that provides holographic and mixed reality experiences using a head mounted device(e.g. HoloLens)
- HoloLens is a device(wearable/head-mounted mixed reality smart glasses) that provides access to the Windows MR Platform features
- The technology associated with both(MR and HoloLens) is rapidly improving wiith use now in a different arenas(see Editor comment #10)
- The potential for this platform and technology imo will be welcomed as different systems(education, aerospace and defense, graphics/video, business) and methodologies evolve and are deployed.
- The ‘More Information’ section below provides a few examples of the terminology and use of Mixed Reality and Hololens.
- Editor Comment – If there is anything that belongs or deserves deployment across our educational systems(world-wide) in STEM arenas and educational systems – this it ‘IT’
More Information:
- Miixed Reality – Wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_reality
- Windows Mixed Reality – Wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mixed_Reality
- Hololen – Wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_HoloLens
- Windows Insiders are using HoloLens to train future doctors: https://insider.windows.com/en-us/community-news/windows-insiders-are-using-hololens/
- How this Insider uses Paint 3D to explain astronomy: https://insider.windows.com/en-us/community-news/paint-3d-to-explain-astronomy/
- Intoduciing Windows Mixed Reality: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-mixed-reality
Revisions:
Feb 22 2018: Initial Draft and Publish Date
Feb 28 2018: Updated ‘Comments’ section with more definitive explanations/additional comments
Apr 2, 2018: Added link in ‘More Information’ re: Windows Insider 3D use explaining Astronomy
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