Post: #1

As a tech enthusiast, it is always cool to see tech revolutions like the Microsoft HoloLens. I always knew (accessible) holographic-enabled technology was inevitable, but it arrived sooner than I had expected. Unfortunately, it looks like HoloLens is Microsoft-exclusive, so Apple users will be missing out. And from the looks of it, it will be carrying a hefty price tag, too. Still, it's gonna be pretty cool to see the evolution of this. What do you guys think?

Post: #2

This is cool but further moves us from reality. Soon people will use this for porn and for relationships. Holographic orgies and blowjobs.

Why talk to someone when you can have the ideal woman magically appear there? I used to be really pro this type of stuff, but have become all too cognizant of the negative effects of virtualizing human interaction.

Post: #3

Yeah, I think for specialist applications (the motorbike and Mars rover) something like this would be very useful....but for everyday stuff? Doing things you shouldn't need a hologram to help you do (attach a pipe to a sink), walking around wearing those goofy looking hologlasses? Count me out.

Post: #4

Thanks for the video! This stuff gets me excited. Augmented and virtual reality is also creeping into our daily lives as well.

Post: #5

This looks awesome, but...

Besides the facts I'm not much of a spender on *things*, I'm a mostly social person, I don't watch tv or play video games much, and with the price I'll probably never own one unless it's really cheap...let's entertain the good bad ugly.

Good:
- Porn would be awesome with this
- Lesser men spending more time with this, guys watching more porn, fake gfs...Leaves more real poos for me

Bad:
- I would waste time with it
- Another chunk my conscious thought and energy toward not using it too much
- The No Fap thread would pop up even more frequently

Ugly:
- Further down the destruction of our society.

Post: #6

I understand the hidden implications of technologies like this, and I agree that some of them will have adverse effects on our society, but our confirmation bias is making us minimize the plethora of positive effects (holographic space exploration, anyone?) this will have and magnify the negatives.

Post: #7

(01-23-2015 11:36 AM)Menace Wrote:  This is cool but further moves us from reality. Soon people will use this for porn and for relationships. Holographic orgies and blowjobs.

Why talk to someone when you can have the ideal woman magically appear there? I used to be really pro this type of stuff, but have become all too cognizant of the negative effects of virtualizing human interaction.

In our coming cyberpunk future, pervs are going to steal hair and skin cells to clone chicks and sell them as sex "bots" even though the robots are flesh and blood.

As it gets mainstream, Lisa Ann can retire, but Lisa 2.0 will love on in illegal Chinese brothels at first, then Germany, then Tijuana, then next to the meth dispensary in Seattle.

WIA

Post: #8

I find this type of technology boring. Think about advertisments and job following people in their homes. I would use this to a minimum, like I use my smartphone to a minimum now.

Tech that would interest me - flying cars, power sources that would liberate individuals from grid, faster travel to mars and moon, space colonisation, terraforming, artificial gravity - anything real.

But it seems that in past few decades our society only focuses on tech that creates artificial realities, surveilance and sociel tech that separates people by claiming to bring people together and of course monitors everything. Smartphones, videophones, holograms, social networks - all of this stuff is pretty mundane and boring. Drones and 3d printing are interesting new things trough but more surrounding virtual world certainly isn't.

Post: #9

This will be catastrophic if it ever evolves to the point where it can compete with reality. We will end up with guys who spit tight game in a holo-environment but only for the predictability of an algo, and end up with a society of tongue-tied Lieutenant Reginald Endicott Barclays.

Post: #10

(01-23-2015 01:32 PM)Mage Wrote:  I find this type of technology boring. Think about advertisments and job following people in their homes. I would use this to a minimum, like I use my smartphone to a minimum now.

Tech that would interest me - flying cars, power sources that would liberate individuals from grid, faster travel to mars and moon, space colonisation, terraforming, artificial gravity - anything real.

But it seems that in past few decades our society only focuses on tech that creates artificial realities, surveilance and sociel tech that separates people by claiming to bring people together and of course monitors everything. Smartphones, videophones, holograms, social networks - all of this stuff is pretty mundane and boring. Drones and 3d printing are interesting new things trough but more surrounding virtual world certainly isn't.

Ever hear of thorium reactors?

Post: #11

That video was hype. I'm pretty sure whatever consumer product they are working on will look nothing like what we saw there, where you can step onto a projection of Mars and all that shit. Maybe in another 50-100 years.

Post: #12

Post: #13

It'll be great for CAD. Instead of having a 3D model of whatever it is you're designing on the screen, you could have a life-size projection right there in front of you.

Post: #14

I'm still waiting on a real 3-D TV. Not this bullshit with glasses where the screen inverts and looks like you are watching a puppet show.

Post: #15

(01-23-2015 02:58 PM)speakeasy Wrote:  That video was hype. I'm pretty sure whatever consumer product they are working on will look nothing like what we saw there, where you can step onto a projection of Mars and all that shit. Maybe in another 50-100 years.

I'm not sure if you're being pessimistic just for the sake of it, but according to what I've read, they've been working on it privately for about five years now and it will be ready for developer testing this Spring. Here's an Engadget article written by someone who tested it, claiming that the projection of Mars that was in the video is very much real.

Quote:Since HoloLens has spatial awareness and can make a map of the world around you, it's able to overlay that world with, say, the Martian landscape. Or maybe a pretty townhouse you're thinking about moving into? The former is the case with Onsight, which takes actual data from NASA's Curiosity rover and models it into a version of Mars you can quite literally walk around. It even incorporated pieces of the room into Mars. If nothing else, the Onsight demo is a great example of what virtual tourism could look like on HoloLens -- not anywhere near as immersive as virtual reality, but certainly impressive.

Post: #16

(01-23-2015 03:33 PM)Shemar Wrote:  

(01-23-2015 02:58 PM)speakeasy Wrote:  That video was hype. I'm pretty sure whatever consumer product they are working on will look nothing like what we saw there, where you can step onto a projection of Mars and all that shit. Maybe in another 50-100 years.

I'm not sure if you're being pessimistic just for the sake of it, but according to what I've read, they've been working on it privately for about five years now and it will be ready for developer testing this Spring. Here's an Engadget article written by someone who tested it, claiming that the projection of Mars that was in the video is very much real.

Quote:Since HoloLens has spatial awareness and can make a map of the world around you, it's able to overlay that world with, say, the Martian landscape. Or maybe a pretty townhouse you're thinking about moving into? The former is the case with Onsight, which takes actual data from NASA's Curiosity rover and models it into a version of Mars you can quite literally walk around. It even incorporated pieces of the room into Mars. If nothing else, the Onsight demo is a great example of what virtual tourism could look like on HoloLens -- not anywhere near as immersive as virtual reality, but certainly impressive.

What's the technology behind this? That could make a 3d projected screen follow you around? Or make arrows appear around some pipes your wife is changing while you explain remotely? Nothing in the video explained how this works. Because current hologram technology works nothing like that.

Post: #17

(01-23-2015 03:51 PM)speakeasy Wrote:  What's the technology behind this? That could make a 3d projected screen follow you around? Or make arrows appear around some pipes your wife is changing while you explain remotely? Nothing in the video explained how this works. Because current hologram technology works nothing like that.

I just linked you to an article—and there are several others like it on the web by people who had the privilege to test it—by someone explaining what their experience was like with it and you're denying the existence of such technology?



As for how the technology works, I don't know. There have been other holographic-based tech products(see Occulus Rift and Sony Project Morpheus) that have failed for whatever reasons. You're underestimating the rate at which technology grows.

Post: #18

Uh Oh.
Welcome to the world of Black Mirror

Post: #19

For suspicions of unforeseen negative effects directly caused by the introduction of new technology, especially social or surveillance, will from this day forward officially be known as "the black mirror effect"

Post: #20

I can see how my parents and grandparents basically were limited in the tech they used to what was available by the time they were 30 or 40 years old. After that they didn't fully keep up. No doubt the same is happening to our generation now. Still I am not going to try to chase the tech down the rabbit hole. No hologram is better than real life.

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Post: #21

(01-24-2015 06:11 AM)TonySandos Wrote:  For suspicions of unforeseen negative effects directly caused by the introduction of new technology, especially social or surveillance, will from this day forward officially be known as "the black mirror effect"

Actually, I wouldn't mind the technology from The Entire History of You. Life would be very, very interesting.

Post: #22

Wake me when it's available on store shelves at a discount price. Otherwise it's prototype masturbation and marketing hype by silicon valley faggots.

Post: #23

Google glass ended up being mostly used as a glorified GoPro camera. I'm highly skeptical of Microsoft doing better when the recent windows 8 was such a piece of shit.

Post: #24

(01-24-2015 06:59 AM)cibo Wrote:  Google glass ended up being mostly used as a glorified GoPro camera. I'm highly skeptical of Microsoft doing better when the recent windows 8 was such a piece of shit.

The few latest innovations to come out have been such complete overhyped bullshit. It's all been high end consumer merchandise.

Segway, Google glass, Tesla cars, oculus rift (still not out), etc..

Post: #25

"I have an idea for the fuel tank!"

Said no woman ever