14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has just announced Windows Holographic, a new platform that enables developers to create apps for its HoloLens device.
Presented earlier this year at its January 21 Windows 10 event, HoloLens creates a word full of holograms and lets you interact with them just like we've all seen in “Star Trek” and other science fiction movies in the past.
Basically, HoloLens is an augmented-reality headset that makes it possible to bring holograms to life, and with Windows Holographic, this whole world is greatly expanded.
With Windows Holographic, every app can become a hologram, and Microsoft demoed at BUILD 2015 photos apps, a holographic Start menu, a browser, and Skype, all of which could be controlled by the user wearing HoloLens.
What's more, the wearer could control these apps, so for example, it's possible to make any app follow you as you move around the room.
All apps have these capabilities, Microsoft said, and thanks to Windows 10, HoloLens can make your virtual world full of tools that can help you get stuff done.
In addition, Microsoft announced that it joined forces with several organizations, including Unity and NASA, to develop new technologies based on HoloLens, so Redmond promises to change the world in a way that we've never imagined using its holograms.
“With holograms you’ll have a new canvas,” the company said. “Your apps can come to life.”
Apps will be available in the store, but it's all up to developers to create such functionality, and this is one of the reasons the company is betting so big on its relationship with app developers. More demos of Windows Holographic will be provided in the coming days at BUILD.