Microsoft demonstrates HoloLens capabilities in Super Bowl 50 finals
Welcome readers of the blog iCover ! It is no secret that watching matches involving athletes of the National Football League ( NFL ) is one of the most popular and favorite ways to rest for many Americans. And the Super Bowl (Super Bowl) - the US NFL's annual final - an event equated by American football fans to a national holiday. On this day, February 7, 2016, Microsoft, one of the leading sponsors of the NFL, signed a contract for $ 400 million with the association in 2013, will delight connoisseurs of its technologies with an unusual advertising storyline. His goal is to demonstrate how Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality headset is capable of “transferring” a football league match along with a stadium to a spectator's home cinema.
The company claims: it is easier to simulate an NFL match in 3D reality on the table of a home living room with HoloLens than to drink a cup of coffee. There are not too many details yet, but it is still interesting to try to imagine how the spectacle for the viewer with the HoloLens headset will change? First of all, according to the company's specialists, it will be possible to stretch the image to the entire width of the wall. Players, information boards and graphic elements appear in their natural three-dimensional dimension. A highlight of the action will be a 3D model of the stadium and the gameplay, projected on the coffee table.
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“Try to imagine that the gameplay in all its details takes place not on a two-dimensional TV screen, but on a coffee table in front of you,” Microsoft employee Yusuf Mehdi comments on his blog, adding: ... the video will reveal an amazing and new experience with the world. reality, where the big game goes beyond the limits of large screens, and the statistics and replays of game episodes are displayed in detail on your wall or table.
You should not be surprised if team members in equipment and in full growth easily pass through the wall to your living room right during the match. You can watch the pop-up 3D holograms, view the field from all sides, forever forget about the need to recreate the game moments from different stands in your imagination ... ".
Of course, what the video demonstrates is for now only a concept and a demonstration of its capabilities, and not a ready-to-use product. In order for the augmented reality with HoloLens to become part of our life, Microsoft will still have to solve a lot of software problems. And one of them is the ability to simulate a “continuous”, “seamless” experience in real time, when creating images and scenes of augmented reality takes into account the entire amount of information accumulated from all working cameras located on the field.
It is worth recalling that the first version of the augmented reality headset HoloLens will soon be available to developers for $ 3000. Reliable information about when the gadget will be available for sale is not yet available.
Source: geekwire.com
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