The hololens is a new introduced product being released by Microsoft. In many ways it has some similarities to the google glass product, with the difference being the quality it offers its users. While it has yet to be released, those who’ve had the opportunity to try it out say that it manages to do exactly what Microsoft says it can do.
So what does Microsoft say about the Hololens? Well, on their website they say
“We envisioned a world where technology could become more personal—where it could adapt to the natural ways we communicate, learn, and create. Where our digital lives would seamlessly connect with real life.
The result is the world’s most advanced holographic computing platform, enabled by Windows 10. For the first time ever, Microsoft HoloLens brings high-definition holograms to life in your world, where they integrate with your physical places, spaces, and things.
Holograms will improve the way you do things every day, and enable you to do things you’ve never done before.”
In terms of real world applications, it seems to offer the greatest benefits for design and engineering focussed businesses, whereby they can create and design their their product on a computer and then holographically project that product onto the real world – a kind of preview for the real thing. Whether or not the average person will be able to use it in the real world is not yet clear, but it will certainly take a lot more third-party development of apps and additional capabilities before it will become widely in use.