Microsoft HoloLens
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| Also known as | Project Baraboo (in-development) |
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| Developer | Microsoft |
| Manufacturer | Microsoft |
| Product family | Windows 10 |
| Type | Mixed reality augmented reality head-mounted display smartglasses |
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| Introductory price | $3,000 |
| Operating system | Windows Mixed Reality |
| CPU | Intel 32-bit (1GHz) |
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| Storage | 64 GB (flash memory) |
| Display | 2.3 megapixel widescreen stereoscopic head-mounted display |
| Sound | Spatial sound technology |
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| Controller input | Gestural commands via sensors and HPU |
| Camera | 2.4 MP |
| Touchpad | None. |
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| Platform | Windows 10 |
| Weight | 579 g |
| Website | Official website |
Microsoft HoloLens, known under development as Project Baraboo, is a pair of mixed reality smartglasses developed and manufactured by Microsoft. HoloLens gained popularity for being one of the first computers running the Windows Mixed Reality platform under the Windows 10 operating system. The HoloLens can trace its lineage to Kinect, an add-on for Microsoft's Xbox gaming console that was introduced in 2010.
The pre-production version of HoloLens, the Development Edition, shipped on the 30th of March 2016, and is targeted to developers in the United States and Canada for a list price of $3000.Samsung and Asus have extended an offer to Microsoft to help produce their own mixed-reality products, in collaboration with Microsoft, based around the concept and hardware on HoloLens. On October 12, 2016, Microsoft announced global expansion of HoloLens and publicized that HoloLens would be available for preorder in Australia, Ireland, France, Germany, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
The HoloLens is a head-mounted display unit connected to an adjustable, cushioned inner headband, which can tilt HoloLens up and down, as well as forward and backward. To wear the unit, the user fits the HoloLens on their head, using an adjustment wheel at the back of the headband to secure it around the crown, supporting and distributing the weight of the unit equally for comfort, before tilting the visor towards the front of the eyes.
In the front is much of the sensors and related hardware, including the cameras and processors. The visor is tinted; enclosed in the visor piece is a pair of transparent combiner lenses, in which the projected images are displayed in the lower half. The HoloLens must be calibrated to the interpupillary distance (IPD), or accustomed vision of the user.
Along the bottom edges of the side, located near the user's ears, are a pair of small, red 3D audio speakers. The speakers, competing against typical sound systems, do not obstruct external sounds, allowing the user to hear virtual sounds, along with the environment. Using head-related transfer functions, the HoloLens generates binaural audio, which can simulate spatial effects; meaning the user, virtually, can perceive and locate a sound, as though it is coming from a virtual pinpoint or location.
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