Microsoft on its Revolutionary HoloLens: 'All Universal Apps Work As Holograms'

Microsoft's HoloLens was a revolutionary unveiling to say the least. One of the more than abstract points about the reveal was the integration of Windows ten and HoloLens at a very low level, with the HoloLens API integrated into the parent bone. Microsoft has now confirmed that all Universal Apps will be compatible with HoloLens - in other words, double every bit a hologram.

win10_holoLens_livingRoom_web An initial concept of how HoloLens will work out with the tiled GUIs floating in virtual space. @Microsoft

Microsoft'south Holo Lens will have native back up for universal apps

Windows has been following the one-os-to-dominion-them-all strategy since the intro of Windows viii; with seamless integration spanning beyond platforms and devices. With Windows x and HoloLens, they take it ane step further, with augmented virtual reality now role and packet of this philosophy. The ideology backside this approach is to foster a highly universal windows ecosystem. Every bit a developer puts it:

Develop in one case for all Windows devices using a unified Windows runtime and VS tools that allow you to both support experiences unique to a device in XAML, HTML, and DirectX, and share the code that supports those experiences across all devices using C++, C#, or JavaScript. When your work is finished you tin yous can produce the app packages that you will submit to the Windows Store and Windows Phone Store with a unmarried activity to get your app out to customers on whatever Windows device.

Basically, the holographic functionality will demand to be coded directly into universal apps, which will afterward all be nothing more than than a glorified skin or GUI. Third party apps can also commencement integrating HoloLens functionality using the HoloLens API. HoloLens will use motion tracking and match moving techniques to and so apply the 2nd interface on any apartment surface (or static in air). To do this, HoloLens will have to friction match movement the camera in existent time, which is no hateful feat.

When talking nigh match moving, planar tracking is relatively like shooting fish in a barrel however apps that require dynamic objects interacting or moving in 3D space (recollect a game character jumping effectually the room) volition be exponentially more than complex to process and it is unclear how Microsoft will manage that without external processing at the moment. But hey, its 2022, and we finally take proper holographic technology - or atleast the first signs of em anyway.