Full HoloLens Block Diagram, Exploded View And Die Shots

[It's me!]

There is no doubt that HoloLens is VERY close to market, i cant believe how compact it is!

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We have seen Microsoft’s HoloLens in action many times, enough to know that it works. But until now, we didn’t know exactly how it worked.

We knew that it was a self-contained augmented reality (or “mixed reality,” as Microsoft calls it) HMD. We knew it had fundamentally mobile hardware inside (an Intel SoC) that ran Windows 10, and that it had sensors and an inertial measurement unit (IMU). We also knew it had a “Holographic Processing Unit” (HPU), but without any details, Microsoft might as well have called it the “magic black box thingy.” Other than the fact that optical system was projection-based, we were in the dark on that, too.

Finally, Microsoft has now revealed more details about HoloLens--what’s under the hood, what are the system components, and how it all works together.

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/mcirosoft-hololens-components-hpu-28nm,32546.html

[captain cactus]

Nice tech.

 

But use cases in everyday life for the average Joe? 0.

[WereCat]

1 hour ago, lots of unexplainable lag said:

Nice tech.

 

But use cases in everyday life for the average Joe? 0.

#justrichthings

#justdeveloperthings

 

 

Holo Lens are awesome. I would like to try them.

[JAKEBAB]

3 hours ago, lots of unexplainable lag said:

Nice tech.

 

But use cases in everyday life for the average Joe? 0.

I find it far more realistic compared to VR in terms of outdoor gaming applications. Airsoft, paintball instead of lugging around a ridiculous computer back pack. Then there are the huge amount of educational purposes, from training Surgeons to plumbers, hell even friends/family helping each other out with things like building a pc, changing oil in their car, setting up internet etc.

 

I think this image represents the obscene amount of use cases very well.

[spwath]

I want it....

but $$$$$

[RexinOridle]

3 hours ago, lots of unexplainable lag said:

Nice tech.

 

But use cases in everyday life for the average Joe? 0.

 

An average Joe would buy it for $200

[MrDynamicMan]

53 minutes ago, huilun02 said:

Now we can play games and watch porn at work but appear to be viewing just an excel spreadsheet. 

 

Watch TV/videos and play lame Niantic games on the go without falling or getting run over. 

 

Replace gun scope with camera, overlay crosshair/trajectory onto hololens, suddenly you can hip fire at full accuracy like a hacker. 

1tap for life. 

[LAwLz]

11 hours ago, lots of unexplainable lag said:

Nice tech.

 

But use cases in everyday life for the average Joe? 0.

Yeah that's what I am thinking too. This seems to basically be Google Glass without the phone tether (which wasn't even an issue to begin with). What did people do with Google Glass? Put them in a box and never used them after the first few weeks. 

[AlTech]

38 minutes ago, LAwLz said:

Yeah that's what I am thinking too. This seems to basically be Google Glass without the phone tether (which wasn't even an issue to begin with). What did people do with Google Glass? Put them in a box and never used them after the first few weeks. 

this has practical use.

 

if the cost came down to less than $1000 then I'm sure businesses would consider buying one.

[suicidalfranco]

51 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

this has practical use.

 

if the cost came down to less than $1000 then I'm sure businesses would consider buying one.

Google glass also had practical uses...

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Both HoloLens and GoogleGlass are gimmicks. Nice ideas - poor implementation. It's too early to release these products to the masses. Even VR can't get things quite right yet in terms of how it should be presented and used to properly interact with the content.