BBC Checked Out Microsoft’s VR Solution

General news News 04/03/2016

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Virtual reality news is mainly featuring three products: the PlayStastion VR, the HTC Vive, and the Oculus Rift all try to get customers to purchase them. Microsoft is also participating in this race, but the Redmond-based company has a different approach.

BBC’s journalist Dave Lee has tried the Microsoft HoloLens personally, and he doesn’t have a good opinion about its current state. If we had to describe his experience in a few words, it’d be „weaker than what the others can do”. In detail, Lee described the HoloLens with a device that has a small field of vision, the peripheric vision is somewhat normal, the device is heavy and uncomfortable, plus he couldn’t see where he looked. The last point is important: the HoloLens allows its user to view the real life world filled up with computer generated objects.

Lee believes the HoloLens has potential, but it’s technologically behind the 8-ball. He made a small hands on experience video about it; you can watch it here, on BBC’s website.

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