It's a step forward but they need much better hand tracking, the lag is substantial. Hoped for more , a viable virtual keyboard as physical keyboards are ok but only when sitting.
As for lag - you really would need to try it in person. What was shown in the demo would have been extra latency from having it output from the HoloLens to the camera for the demo.
As always, it'll be the apps that make or break it. Probably why they were focusing on military usage; they might not buy that many units lot but if it costs a bomb it could still be worth it, and they're used to commissioning custom software for what they want.
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jjj - Sunday, February 24, 2019 - link
They do list some of the specs https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens/hardwareIt's a step forward but they need much better hand tracking, the lag is substantial. Hoped for more , a viable virtual keyboard as physical keyboards are ok but only when sitting.
jjj - Sunday, February 24, 2019 - link
The display's MEMS has always been assumed to be from Microvision.Brett Howse - Sunday, February 24, 2019 - link
Excellent thanks!As for lag - you really would need to try it in person. What was shown in the demo would have been extra latency from having it output from the HoloLens to the camera for the demo.
jjj - Sunday, February 24, 2019 - link
My benchmark is a virtual keyboard vs a tablet's touchscreen keyboard, how do you think HL2 compares to a tab's kb?zeusk - Sunday, February 24, 2019 - link
I have the first gen HoloLens and there is no perceivable lag in hand tracking, don't see a reason why the newer one would be worse.nerd1 - Monday, February 25, 2019 - link
Too bad that they discontinued the ToF Kinect V2 (still the best <$1000 depth sensor out there) and made a smaller $399 one.GreenReaper - Monday, February 25, 2019 - link
As always, it'll be the apps that make or break it. Probably why they were focusing on military usage; they might not buy that many units lot but if it costs a bomb it could still be worth it, and they're used to commissioning custom software for what they want.