Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: a $3,500 mixed-reality headset for the factory

Re:Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: a $3,500 mixed-reality headset fo... by andybak on Sunday February 24, 2019 @02:58PM (#19240257)

How old are you if you don't mind me asking? I'm pushing 50 and the real world is rather lacking in resolution nowadays.

I solve this by leaning forward or back. In VR/AR the same thing works.

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Re:Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: a $3,500 mixed-reality headset fo... by poutine on Sunday February 24, 2019 @03:46PM (#19240523)

I'm your age. I find my oculus totally useless for real world work. I'm used to a 4k monitor as a desktop.

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Re:Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: a $3,500 mixed-reality headset fo... by mcbits on Sunday February 24, 2019 @05:20PM (#19241002)

I'm used to a 14" laptop + 21" monitor (resolution doesn't matter), which together occupy maybe 20% of my field of view while using them. If I could take the same quantity of information and arrange it arbitrarily in my environment, eliminating the need for any monitors, it would be a win even if the text had to be larger.

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Re:Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: a $3,500 mixed-reality headset fo... by poutine on Sunday February 24, 2019 @06:39PM (#19241398)

You'd need to move your head a lot to look at stuff. Gets old quickly. Try out the VR desktop on oculus and you'll quickly discover the need for much more dense pixels.

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