Microsoft Launches HoloLens Emulator, No Headset Required (venturebeat.com) 31
An anonymous reader writes: As promised, Microsoft started shipping its $3,000 HoloLens development kits today. In addition to sharing that bots are coming to the new platform, the company also released a HoloLens emulator, which lets developers test holographic apps on their PC without the need for a physical HoloLens. You can download the emulator now directly from here.
Thinking about building a holographic app? HoloToolkit on GitHub is a collection of scripts and components that may help accelerate your development.
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The link points to an EXE file, that's what hovering my mouse of the link says. I don't care if it's from Microsoft as they are not above suspicion. It should point to the page instead, and the page should have a SHA256 or MD5 sum on the executables contents. We spend so much time to try and teach the parents and grandparents to always check what a link points to and never download an executable and then Slashdot goes and undermines this.
Never download an EXE file in a link from an untrusted source peopl
Re: Download directly? (Score:1)
How does it help your sense of security if the same site that hosts the executable gives you a hash of it?
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probably a marketing decision by ms.
shotgun marketing....
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This is the result of there being a big Microsoft developer conference going on. As the magicians on stage perform each trick, the press gushes over it, again and again. Submitters here at /. can't stop themselves from sending in each one of them separately, it seems.
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Hrm, if it's in San Francisco I may need to go buy eggs and toilet paper.. *mwuahahahaha*
kidding of course
or am I?
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Hrm, if it's in San Francisco I may need to go buy eggs and toilet paper.
If it's in scenic New Jersey, I may need go buy brass knuckles and stilettos
Isn't the cultural diversity between the east and west coast in the USA such a wonderful thing!
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You mean the company that just had its annual developer's conference?!
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"Slashdot is getting paid by Microsoft!"
Re:New business model?FTFY (Score:2)
"Slashdot(community) hates on Microsoft too much!"
"Slashdot(host) is getting paid by Microsoft!"
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Re:New business model?FTFY (Score:4, Funny)
and by people do you mean ms Tay :)
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My response to these kinds of comments is always "if you want another story on the front page, submit it". There is never a reason to complain about lack of content on a user content driven site.
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Sounds like someone is salty.
Hololens Demo (Score:1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3rNIxMlKmI
Demo of the Hololens if you missed it. Will be interesting to see where the technology goes :)
It's a trap (Score:2)
It's a trap
WTF? Link to an exe? (Score:1)
I don't care if it is from Microsoft, you don't link directly to an executable Slashdot!
holography... (Score:1)
It seems to me Microsoft is trying to hijack the holographic nomenclature for profit? Every time a stereoscopic pair of images are interchangeably named as holograms, D. Gabor spins on his grave :(
please don't say holographic (Score:1)
You're confusing the adjective holographic with the capitalized brand name Windows Holographic. This isn't holography, it's Augmented Reality. Even the brand name shouldn't be used because it misleadingly hijacks a common word.
The Microsoft slashdot .. (Score:2, Insightful)
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Duplicate posts? Now who's shilling, motherfucker?
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More salt!
Awww crap (Score:1)
Misread that headline. Read it as "Microsoft Launches HoloLens Emitter, No Headset Required".
Was REALLY excited for 5 seconds and then read what a Microsoft HoloLens actually is.
To quote a review of the new Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice movie: "It was like expecting a puppy for Christmas and getting a goldfish."