In one of my recent blog posts I talked about Sony's Project Morpheus and about how it was the leading edge of virtual reality for console based devices. I have recently learned about another virtual reality device that may be further behind in the marketing sense but is much further ahead when it comes to technologically. It is called the Microsoft HoloLens and is in an early beta phase and is used like glasses for everyday life. They resemble laboratory googles and you wear them around in everyday life and can play games and do other things using the environment around you. If you've ever seen the movie Ironman, the best way I can describe it is how the screen is like floating in front of you in mid air and you can just tap it with your finger rather than on an actual screen.
It is used now as a developers item, and can be purchased for upwards of $2000. It can be purchased as a test item and many people have created their own programs for it in which you can interact with the world around you. One creator that I saw took the game "Portal" and made it so that you could essentially play the game in your very own environment. The game would obey the law of physics and if it were to hit a wall in real life, it would stop against that wall. This would also allow people to work on things in their environment to create new concepts using the template of things that already exist and interacting with them in real life.
For more information about the HoloLens click here. To watch the Portal video on HoloLens click here.
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