Microsofts problem is they never follow through. They launched it for consumers and did absolutely nothing with it. Didn’t make any games, or applications for consumers at all. If you build it they will come doesn’t work when you don’t have a vision.
they launched it for the medical field. then they put together a consumer presentation to show what else could be done. that was just a side hustle.
Microsoft has seen itself as a platform company harkening back to the Ballmer days. That’s what his infamous “developers developers developers” coke fueled rant was all about. They make the bones of a platform and count on 3rd parties to build it out into something usable. If that never happens, the project is DoA. If that does happen as intended, they just buy the companies that do it best.
I don’t see how mixed reality could be gaming’s future when it relies on your own environment to project on to. Gaming is an escape from reality.
Simulator games, where people play with specialized hardware specifically modeled after real control systems on real world vehicles. Such as flight simulators, train simulators, tank simulators, etc.
Just because you play video games as an escape from reality, doesn’t mean video games have to be intentionally different from the reality.
Ok but how would projecting a detailed control system onto your desk be any better than a normal HMD that shows where your hands are in a completely virtual environment?
You’re misunderstanding, the glasses would project everything else, the controls are real.
The future of gaming is spending thousands of dollars on a custom built 1 to 1 cockpit and then yet more thousands of dollars on a headset that cannot possibly properly track where the outline of the controls end and the room begins to project a 3-dimensional space without clipping and breaking immersion.
It’s still relying on your own environment and this is describing an extremely niche market.
How much is the RTX 5090 again?
Like kinect being a medical product
It’s a what-now?
I quite liked the Kinect btw.
A shitshow.
Do soldiers actually use these in the field though? Stuff like this has been in magazines about military tech since the 80’s.
It’s been field tested and the biggest complaint was that it would give soldiers nausea because tracking wasn’t good enough and refresh rate was slow.
they were supposed to replace the old system but people aren’t using them because;
Microsoft had a $22 billion contract but Republican senate delayed buying them last year and yesterday the army gave the contract to a different company…which may or may not be linked to the new administration
There’s an Outer Limits episode about this.
