The new Howland's To enterprise focus headset is now available for people who want to explore with it. This expensive headset is designed to be more comfortable to fit over glasses and to be worn for longer periods of time. Unlike some other headsets, it doesn't use a controller which initially threw me off. However, the hand tracking and eye tracking make it so that you can start grabbing things and turning things, and it starts to feel intuitive.

As I was exploring with the headset, navigating gets really cool and kind of feels superhero-ish in the main menu. The headsets casts out beams from your hands, allowing me to point across the room and see a hand ray when I want to open an app. If I tap my fingers together, the app opens. The field of view is big enough that even though you do get some cut off, you can see most of the stuff perfectly fine.

There's also a 3D object, like a spinning turbine, which allows me to walk around it and drag it around like a mouse on a screen. I can take it and pinch to make it larger or smaller by grabbing an edge. What's even weirder is that there's a little blue box that follows me, allowing me to tap on it so it stays with me.

The eye tracking feature is new, and there really aren't many devices that do eye tracking and the ability to track what you're looking at. This opens up opportunities for using this headset in various ways, such as creating more complicated 3D spaces that guide you step by step with floating dotted arrows that show you where everything is.

Microsoft is definitely targeting training with this headset, as it could be used to create complex 3D spaces that are easy enough for businesses to use and set up. The headsets cost thirty five hundred dollars or more for bundles with Microsoft software, which is much more expensive than average VR headsets but falls into the territory of where original Hololens was.

What this headset does now is not going to be everything at Howland's To aspires to do. Some promises involve doing things in the real world anywhere or connecting seamlessly in the cloud to render complicated graphics, which are not here yet but being worked on. This also requires really good wireless overtime and eventually thinking about things like 5G.

I feel like I could just stand on a street corner with this headset performing, as people would be like 'what is he doing?' He's doing a holographic mime by putting that squiggly thing pointing out towards you so it serves rings, then spiraling out to you. Then, I can move my hands through it.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enyou can't see it but what I'm doing right now is sketching something with my fingers in 3d space I'm wearing a hololens too and it's now going to be available today to people who want to explore with it this is an expensive headset and it's an enterprise focus headset but it's designed to be more comfortable to fit over my glasses and to be worn for longer periods of time in fact it doesn't use any controller which I first threw me off but the hand tracking and the eye tracking make it so that you can start grabbing things and turning things and it starts to feel intuitive and maybe you start to forget like I did that I was wearing a headset at all show hand-raise oh yeah navigating gets really cool and kind of feels superhero-ish in the main menu if you want to control and open apps with hololens - it casts out these beams from your hands so I'm pointing across the room and I see this hand ray and if I want to open it up I just point it down and then I tap my fingers together and the app opens the field of view is big enough that even though you do get some cut off you can see most of the stuff perfectly fine and there's a turbine that's here that's spinning that's a 3d object now if you want to share a 3d object with somebody and then say how do I look at it now I could walk around it getting close and drag it around like a like a mouse on a screen I can take it and pinch to make it larger or smaller by grabbing an edge I can take both hands and shift it around and do that and the weirdest thing is that there's a little blue box and I can tap so that it can follow me oh hi turbine you're following me behind me and my hand you're holding your hand up to the virtual object in front of it it won't overlap like you would get on a phone app which is pretty awesome also eye tracking is new there really are not that many devices that do eye tracking and the ability to track what you're looking at is interesting it opens up opportunities so what you'd actually use this for is a good question Microsoft is definitely targeted at training because you could create some sort of a more complicated 3d space it could be pretty large it could guide you step by step by with these floating dotted arrows that will tell you where everything is and you can go over and interact with that space and that toolkit is supposed to be easy enough for businesses to use and put together or if you're in a you know in this room and you say well this is what you want to do when you first go into the room and then there's this arrow that would point over to like the bookshelf and I would start there Holland's to cost thirty five hundred dollars or more for bundles with Microsoft software thirty five hundred dollars is much more expensive than say your average VR headset but it's kind of in the territory of where the original hololens was and it's where those enterprise air headsets and high-end mixed reality headsets tend to land what Holland's to does now is not going to be everything at Howland's to aspires to do and let me explain what I mean by that some of the promises for this which involve doing things in the real world anywhere or connecting seamlessly in the cloud to render really complicated graphics are not here but they're being worked on is not just gonna require that service in the cloud but it's also gonna require really good wireless overtime and eventually you'll be thinking about things like 5g will have to see how they evolve I feel like I could just like stand on a street corner just perform people would just be like I don't know he's just fascinating I don't know what he's doing he's doing a holographic mime I put that squiggly thing pointing out like that towards you so just kind of serving rings and then it's going through and spiraling out to you and then I could move my hand and it's like my hands moving through ityou can't see it but what I'm doing right now is sketching something with my fingers in 3d space I'm wearing a hololens too and it's now going to be available today to people who want to explore with it this is an expensive headset and it's an enterprise focus headset but it's designed to be more comfortable to fit over my glasses and to be worn for longer periods of time in fact it doesn't use any controller which I first threw me off but the hand tracking and the eye tracking make it so that you can start grabbing things and turning things and it starts to feel intuitive and maybe you start to forget like I did that I was wearing a headset at all show hand-raise oh yeah navigating gets really cool and kind of feels superhero-ish in the main menu if you want to control and open apps with hololens - it casts out these beams from your hands so I'm pointing across the room and I see this hand ray and if I want to open it up I just point it down and then I tap my fingers together and the app opens the field of view is big enough that even though you do get some cut off you can see most of the stuff perfectly fine and there's a turbine that's here that's spinning that's a 3d object now if you want to share a 3d object with somebody and then say how do I look at it now I could walk around it getting close and drag it around like a like a mouse on a screen I can take it and pinch to make it larger or smaller by grabbing an edge I can take both hands and shift it around and do that and the weirdest thing is that there's a little blue box and I can tap so that it can follow me oh hi turbine you're following me behind me and my hand you're holding your hand up to the virtual object in front of it it won't overlap like you would get on a phone app which is pretty awesome also eye tracking is new there really are not that many devices that do eye tracking and the ability to track what you're looking at is interesting it opens up opportunities so what you'd actually use this for is a good question Microsoft is definitely targeted at training because you could create some sort of a more complicated 3d space it could be pretty large it could guide you step by step by with these floating dotted arrows that will tell you where everything is and you can go over and interact with that space and that toolkit is supposed to be easy enough for businesses to use and put together or if you're in a you know in this room and you say well this is what you want to do when you first go into the room and then there's this arrow that would point over to like the bookshelf and I would start there Holland's to cost thirty five hundred dollars or more for bundles with Microsoft software thirty five hundred dollars is much more expensive than say your average VR headset but it's kind of in the territory of where the original hololens was and it's where those enterprise air headsets and high-end mixed reality headsets tend to land what Holland's to does now is not going to be everything at Howland's to aspires to do and let me explain what I mean by that some of the promises for this which involve doing things in the real world anywhere or connecting seamlessly in the cloud to render really complicated graphics are not here but they're being worked on is not just gonna require that service in the cloud but it's also gonna require really good wireless overtime and eventually you'll be thinking about things like 5g will have to see how they evolve I feel like I could just like stand on a street corner just perform people would just be like I don't know he's just fascinating I don't know what he's doing he's doing a holographic mime I put that squiggly thing pointing out like that towards you so just kind of serving rings and then it's going through and spiraling out to you and then I could move my hand and it's like my hands moving through it\n"