Microsoft Drop New Ad For Their Holographic VR – The Future Of Watching Sport Is Upon Us
As the race for consumer VR (virtual reality) heats up, the big tech companies are competing to own your home virtual experiences. Microsoft want to transform the way we interact with sporting matches from the comfort of our homes, writes Tom Pitney.
It’s 2016 and the sci-fi future we’ve always dreamed about it getting closer and closer. Microsoft are one of the big brands following in the footsteps of Google and Facebook, throwing everything at the wall to develop cool tech for virtual and augmented reality experiences in the home.
Why? Because VR is cool. That’s why. Don’t question it.
With the launch of their ‘HoloLens‘ handset next year, Microsoft want to change the way we sink our tinnies and abuse the ump from the comfort of our arm chair. For a fine example, this…
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Using a bunch of whiz-bang words to describe it, they’re basically hoping to own the ‘augmented reality’ scene – the type of VR that places holograms in to the ‘real world’. If it works, this thing will be all kinds of minority reports (as you’ll see below). Within no time, you’ll be having Tupac live shows on your dining room table.
In the spirit of NFL ‘Super Bowl 50’ going down next Monday, Microsoft have today dropped a video demonstrating how they envision the handset being used in the future.
If it can live up to what it promises (which we think will probably be unlikely), this thing looks fucking dope. I mean, imagine managing your Ultimate Footy team with the live stats. Wow.
Here’s how Microsoft think we’ll use Halolens to watch sport in the future:
Now that you’ve had the fun of watching the video, we can spoil the fun.
1. Firstly, the technology might be there in Microsoft’s handset – but it’ll probably take mainstream Australian TV stations a bajillion years to get organised and support it. After all, these guys are only now struggling to broadcast in HD, eight years after the technology first hit Australian households.
2. It’s Microsoft – prepare for this thing to be clunky as shit, need a tonne of anti-virus software and a whole range of instillation wizards
3. Expect this:
#lag
Either way – the concept of VR in the household is looking pretty damn nifty. They’ve even have this extended vid showing how we’ll use it in the home…
…But seriously guys – where are the hoverboards?
Everybody hurts….