How Microsoft's augmented reality strategy may augment its Home Hub and IoT visions

There was a time when the projection of virtual objects onto our real world required the power of movie magic and special effects.

Now a visit to a local Microsoft store can give you access to a world where alien robots burst through walls. Well, that's as long as you've donned Microsoft's HoloLens. The presence of digital elements in our physical world is a reality.

Microsoft's goal, as seen in the company's vision of a scuba diver's augmented POV in the video below, is to provide a platform where holographic computing is applied in a variety of scenarios.

Redmond envisions a future where fluid interaction with digital elements that populate our world, augment our perceptions and provide additional information about our environment is the norm.

First things first: Holo-foundation

HoloLens is Microsoft's untethered wearable computer that showcases the augmented-reality extreme of Redmond's Windows Holographic mixed-reality vision.

Microsoft envisions a future where AR is the norm.

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