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Our first day with HoloLens: A tiny window into a magical future

• http://newatlas.com, Will Shanklin

Would AR have a bright future alongside, or perhaps beyond, VR? A year and a half later, we now have a HoloLens dev kit in house and we've gotten our first glimpse – a narrow one, but a glimpse nonetheless – into a future where we all star in our own CGI-laden fantasy films.

The first time you use the Microsoft HoloLens, you might be severely disappointed. After months of anticipation, salivating over press shots and videos that make HoloLens look like it blends the virtual and real around you in all directions, you're likely to be in for a shock when you see just how narrow the headset's field of view is. It's sort of like you can only see the augmented part of the world through a window floating directly – and only directly – in front of you. Sure, the virtual objects and characters are "all around you," in that you see them when you turn your head to look straight at them, but move your head just the slightest bit in any direction, and they get cut off or vanish entirely.


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