HoloLens by MicrosoftHardware & Software

Turning Virtual Reality into Mixed Realityby

Bob EspositoAugust 2016

What is Virtual Reality?

Virtual reality or virtual realities (VR), also known as immersive multimedia or computer-simulated reality, is a computer technology that replicates an environment, real or imagined, and simulates a user's physical presence and environment to allow for user interaction.

Apple’s Virtual Reality Headset Concept

• Fearing the feeling of being closed in, Apple and Microsoft recognized that Virtual Reality needed to migrate to Augmented Reality, thereby freeing the users primary learning senses - Vision & Hearing!

Augmented Reality (AR)

Augmented reality (AR) is a live direct view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are supplemented by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or data.

By contrast, virtual reality replaces the real world with a simulated one.

Augmentation is in real-time and within real environmental elements. With the help of advanced AR technology (e.g. adding computer vision and object recognition) the information about the surrounding real world of the user becomes interactive and digitally manipulable.

Mixed Reality (MR) merges the real and virtual worlds to produce new environments where physical and digital objects co-exist and interact in real time, thereby setting the stage for design, training, and a simulated on-the-job learning which in the real world could be extremely expensive or difficult to achieve.

Traditional aircraft jet engine maintenance requires pulling an aircraft out of service - very costly; increasing maintenance time to accommodate on-the-job learning; and limiting opportunities for such training to take place to a limited number of facilities world-wide.

Using HoloLens software and hardware, Japan Airlines is able to bring that same aircraft engine into any environment anywhere in the world to train its aircraft engine technicians.

Videos to Help Us Learn More

HoloLens Hardware and Software - MicroSoft Videohttps://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hololens/en-us/hardware2:06 minutes

Microsoft HoloLens: what it’s really like - The Verge Review: You Tubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p0BDw4VHNo3:54 minutes

HoloLens & Japan Airlines demo: WPC 2016 - MicroSoft Video: You Tubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vei9hax0s5s6:54 minutes

Microsoft HoloLens Review, mind blowing Augmented Realityhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihKUoZxNClA6:25 minutes