Microsoft HoloLens Apps
Microsoft’s Metaverse Ambitions Grow as Teams Platform to Include 3D Avatars & Immersive XR Meetings
Microsoft is making a strong bid to bolster its version of the metaverse as it looks to roll out 3D avatars and immersive meetings for its Microsoft Teams communication platform.
You might define the metaverse as essentially an immersive internet where...
Epic’s HoloLens 2 Demo ‘Apollo 11: Mission AR’ Showcases Impressive PC-quality Graphics
Epic Games today released a new video featuring a demo for HoloLens 2 that aims to show off just what sort of graphics can be achieved on Microsoft's latest standalone AR headset. Called Apollo 11: Mission AR, the interactive demo is...
Watch HoloLens 2 ‘Spatial’ Remote Collaboration Demo from MWC 2019
Spatial is a real-time AR collaboration platform first developed for the original HoloLens by New York-based startup Spatial. Although now that Microsoft's new and improved HoloLens 2 is in the mix, Spatial CEO Anand Agarawala and CPO Jinha Lee took...
VFX Master Phil Tippett Brings His Grotesque Creations to HoloLens in ‘HoloGrid: Monster Battle’
Game studio HappyGiant and Tippett Studio, the production firm founded by stop-motion guru Phil Tippett, has launched HoloGrid: Monster Battle (2017) on Microsoft’s HoloLens platform. First appearing on Samsung Gear VR, the tactical strategy game combines elements of chess,...
‘Echelon’ AR Board Game is Like Star Wars ‘HoloChess’ for HoloLens
Created by Helios Interactive, Echelon is a multiplayer board game played on Microsoft's HoloLens that, as an proof of concept, gives us a look into what sort of games we might be playing in the future when we're not engaged...
‘Legion’ HoloLens Experience Coming to San Diego Comic-Con
FX TV series Legion (2017) is getting an immersive, mixed reality experience powered by Microsoft's HoloLens, and it's coming to this year's San Diego Comic-Con on July 20-23.
Sessions: The Legion Mixed Reality Experience will take fans into the headspace of show's protagonist David...
Acer & HP Windows Mixed Reality Headset Dev Kits Now Available for Pre-order Starting at $300
Today Microsoft announced that developers in the US and Canada can now pre-order the Acer ($299) and HP ($329) Mixed Reality headsets from the Microsoft Store. Delivery of the headsets is scheduled for August 2017.
In October, Terry Myerson, Microsoft executive...
Microsoft Shows Windows in VR, Gives Acer VR Headset to Vision Summit Audience
Brandon Bray, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, took the stage at Unity's Vision VR/AR Summit 2017 to show a little more of what Microsoft has planned for the VR side of things when the first Windows Holographic headsets come...
‘CyberSnake’ for HoloLens is a Reimagining of the Classic ‘Snake’ in AR
Developer Lucas Rizzotto has created CyberSnake, a free game for Microsoft HoloLens. As explained in the game's launch video (above), the game is inspired by the 2D Snake arcade game, moved into a mixed reality environment, and played in...
‘HoloLems’ Makes Your Room into a ‘Lemmings’ Level with HoloLens
Canadian technology company Globacore have created an AR homage to video game classic Lemmings (1991), now for Microsoft HoloLens. HoloLems, which is free on the Microsoft Store, uses HoloLens’ spatial mapping technology to generate an obstacle course from the player’s...
‘MyLab’ on HoloLens Brings an Interactive Periodic Table to the Chemistry Classroom
Education is widely expected to be an area where AR and VR will see major play, but we can't start at zero and immediately arrive at a world of immersive, transformed education. It takes stepping stones. MyLab is one such...
HoloLens ‘Final Fantasy XIV’ Concept Video Shows AR as a Perfect ‘Second Screen’ for Today’s Games
Augmented reality is conceptually so broad, there's almost no limit to what you could imagine doing with the technology. But rather than throwing out the playbook entirely, we'll to our grand visions through useful incremental steps that begin with integration...
What ‘Pokémon Go’ Could Be Like if it Was Really Augmented Reality
Pokémon Go, the latest "AR" infused sequel to the classic Nintendo franchise is sweeping the world on mobile phone platforms. But what would it look like running on a dedicated augmented reality headset? Developer CapitolaVR decided to find out by...
HoloLens Autodesk MotionBuilder App Lets SFX Artists Build Fantasy in Reality
As HoloLens filters its way into more developers' hands, we're beginning to see some of the true potential in Microsoft's 'Holographic' augmented reality headset. This early new project from Jasper Brekelmans shows the potential, practical applications for SFX artists to...
HoloLens Enterprise Mixed Reality Development with Object Theory
HoloLens development kits started shipping last week following Microsoft's Build conference and there were also a number of NDAs that were lifted, which allowed some companies to start talking about their HoloLens projects for the first time. One of...
