Microsoft on Wednesday announced Windows Holographic, a feature in Windows 10 that will let users create their own holograms and print them out on 3D printers.
Every Windows 10 device has holographic APIs enabled, Microsoft's Alex Kipman said. Windows 10 holograms are Windows Universal Apps.
Users need the Microsoft HoloLens headset, which Kipman described as "the first fully untethered computer."
— technewsworld.com
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This is pretty badass.
"We risk being the first people in history to have been able to make their illusions so vivid, so persuasive, so 'realistic' that they can live in them. We are the most illusioned people on Earth. Yet we dare not become disillusioned, because our illusions are the very house in which we live; they are our news, our heroes, our adventure, our forms of art, our very experience." -Daniel Boorstin
@CD.Arch if it is half as bad-assed as it appears....!
Why don't we just dispense with reality entirely?
Lets start with how this is a bad idea, as architecture is so damn important
you could design the facade of a big concrete box to appear to have classical detailing for those that think their neighborhoods should be 'traditional' and lumicor panels for those who like contemporary and white porcelain for richard meier. . .
this could be great for the built environment and architects
actually, i think it's a lot more hype than it is working technology, but we'll see.
^ Brilliant.
The actual construction can be the cheapest possible shit slapped together. Think concrete block with fiber-reinforced stucco or prefab warehouse construction.
Architects can be dispensed with entirely. The new starchitects will be video game designers will create custom virtual realities. Their work will be stolen and hacked and resold on the black market.
there is no down side to that scenario. i welcome our new benevolent overlords.
curt, I think you'd enjoy Stanislaw Lem's book The Futurological Congress.
Miles, tech is making us obsolete anyhow
Only until the power goes out.
curt, thats brilliant!
I see a bright future for pornographers...
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