$ Cost $
Retail price not released
The MANY Benefits to MANY Businesses...
Compared Product Pricing
- Google Glass- $1,500, no longer available for purchase
- Facebook’s Oculus Rift- Between $200 & $400
- Samsung’s Gear VR Headset- $200
Windows Central (Forum page):
- Consumer’s average guess is $500-$1,000 for HoloLens
- Example: Engineering (Design Process)
- Chemical, civil, electrical, interdisciplinary, and mechanical
- Live conference calls
- Virtual walk through/ view of task and final outcome
- Medium to express creativity
- Data collection
- Interaction
...too many to list all of them!
Project HoloLens
Microsoft HoloLens
http://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hololens/en-us?ocid=ASPEN_SEM_google_&cid=ASPEN_SEM_google_
- Holographic headgear
- Operated by head, voice, and gesture controls
- Computing in the physical world
- 3-dimensional
- http://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2015/01/27/will-microsoft-hololens-bring-virtual-reality-to-the-workplace/
- http://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2014/12/09/samsung-is-now-selling-the-gear-vr-headset-for-200/
- http://forums.windowscentral.com/microsoft-hololens/336196-hololens-price-estimate.html
- http://mashable.com/2015/01/22/hololens-hands-on-experience/
- http://www.pcworld.com/article/2602906/final-oculus-rift-pricing-hardware-teased-as-gear-vr-reveals-oculus-ready-interface.html
- http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/19/7852999/google-glass-last-day-of-sales
- http://www.wired.com/2015/01/microsoft-hands-on/
How to Use
- Track movement
- Watch gaze
- Only the "wearer" can see (while still seeing the "real world" around them)
- Click by tapping index finger and thumb together
*As easy as using your own brain*