Title: Iron Man to the real world: Microsoft HoloLens

Microsoft HoloLens

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The movie Iron Man have shown us the future of AR. It is not a far future story anymore. It has come very close to us. VR brings us to a full virtual reality through HMD.
Therefore,  “Immersion” which makes you fully concentrate on virtual reality separated from the real world is very important. On the other hand,  “sense of reality” is an important keyword in AR because it works based on real world.

Then what is MR(Mixed Reality)? It is a technology that merges VR’s immersion and AR’s sense of reality.

Microsoft HoloLens is based on AR technology. The hardware of Microsoft HoloLens is slightly different from the hardware of Samsung Gear VR or Oculus Rift. VR HMD completely covers your eyes as it must lead you to the virtual reality. Holo Lens, however, is made with translucent screen as AR is a technology that put virtual contents on top of the real world.

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Two light engine of HoloLens emit light pieces million times per second and make images. What we see is the reflected image from the transparent display.
The HoloLens hardware is consist of several cameras that helps to recognize surroundings to reflect the real world, depth sensor, light sensor and microphone. Its capacity is 64GB. Also its internal rechargeable battery last about 2-3 hours of active use.

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The world that Microsoft is dreaming through the HoloLens might be quite similar to that of the movie Iron Man. We can enjoy not only game and entertainment but also shopping, interior and email through Microsoft Holo Lens probably.

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Until now, there are only developer’s version so consumers should wait a bit more. Oculus Rift also took long time to apply improvements  after they released the developer’s kit The price of developer’s kit is about 3million won. So it will take a long time for AR to be generalized in our real world.

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