As Google Glass Exits, Goggle Glass Launches

The world has waited with baited breath for the kind of gadget that will truly allow us to live a futuristic existence resembling movies like Total Recall and Back to the Future, and now with the wave of Microsoft’s million dollar wand, we wonder, has the waiting game finally come to an end?

Microsoft Hololens

First pitched 7 years ago, the once secretly named Project Baraboos, has now been renamed Project Hololens. Behind this ambitious project is chief inventor Alex Kipman, who is known for inventing the Kinect for Xbox.

The holographic goggles that he has invented are no bigger than the recently withdrawn Google Glass and thankfully less boxy than the Oculus Rift. Using a fraction of energy, the well-designed goggles are managed with on-board CPU, GPU and the newly introduced HPU (Holographic Processing Unit) and is controlled using nothing more than gestures and voice control.

Microsoft Hololens

The goggles work by tricking the brain into seeing light as matter, Kipman explains, “If I could magically turn the debugger on, we’d see photons bouncing throughout this world. Eventually they hit the back of your eyes, and through that, you reason about what the world is. You essentially hallucinate the world, or you see what your mind wants you to see.”

Spanning 120 degrees by 120 degrees, and no bigger than a pair of ski goggles, Microsoft’s Holographic Goggles promises us the world as we want to see it and we literally cannot wait.

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