Microsoft has just opened pre-orders of the development kit for his glasses Hololens. The 3000 dollar rate is maintained and the manufacturer has unveiled a few more details about the embedded hardware in its product.
It’s official, it is possible to pre-order the Microsoft SDK for Hololens. However, the offer is not available to all and contrary to what we had seen in the past with products like the Oculus Rift, it is first necessary to show their credentials to the builder before hope to get their hands on the famous holographic glasses.
It is not enough to have 3000 dollars
Several barriers come and stand on the developer’s path who would like to try the product. There is first the question of price. In 3000 dollars each, offer a Hololens is a luxury that an independent can not possibly afford. Next comes a geographical problem since only the people living in Canada or the United States will receive the glasses.
And it’s not over. Microsoft wants to select folder on the people who will have the opportunity to purchase the product. This requires a form that is only available to “Microsoft Insiders’ including application if the applicant can demonstrate particular experience in developing 3D, a LinkedIn page or how much time a week disposal Hololens to develop applications. Microsoft justifies this step by the need to ensure that Hololens benefit from a “ living community .”
The lucky winners will receive a confirmation email asking them to pay 3000 dollars for each pair of glasses they wish to order. The first wave of shipments will take place from 30 March, the following arrive every two to three months.
The onboard hardware is precisely
Microsoft has also benefited from opportunity to reveal more detail what is in the womb of his glasses. To summarize, we find a complete PC with a 32-bit Intel architecture (the reference is not known) supported by a Microsoft house chip called “Holographic Processing Unit (HPU 1.0)” and 2 GB of RAM . For storage, 64 GB of flash are available. The whole weighs 579 grams, is passively cooled, promises a range running between 2 and 3 hours and comes in Windows 10 with access to the Store.
many sensors are embedded. It is thus question of four cameras filming the environment by more than a fifth “depth camera”. A sixth is also available, this time to allow the user to take pictures (2 Mpix) or HD video. Four microphones are also part and a light sensor. Motion detection is entrusted to an inertia.
To that touches the display, Microsoft evokes “ two light engines 16/9 HD ” and “ definition holographic 2.3 million light points “with a resolution of 2500 dots per radian. New measures that we may have to get used to. The device is also able to automatically adjust to the distance between the screen and eyes. On the side of connectivity, it comes down to a micro USB 2.0 port, a headphone jack, Wi-Fi 802.11ac and Bluetooth 4.1 LE. More than numbers, we now expect the first independent feedback from testers.
Kevin Hottot
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