Canadian here, that’s just not true, you only have to wait if you want to see a specific specialist and they are fully booked, then you have to decide if you would rather wait or see someone else.
HoloLens user here, based on this video alone, the experience appears to be equivalent, although holograms appear to be a bit more stable on HoloLens, which also has no trouble tracking fast head movements
Something most people don't know about HoloLens: the holograms stay where you put them indefinitely. So if you put a browser window on a wall in your bedroom and come back after a week, it will be exactly where you left it.
Great video. Was really hoping the baby would get up and do something when you clicked on it.
Only partially joking. There was a mental pause where I stopped to think whether something was going to occur. Testament to the overall quality of the AR.
Yes it does work outside if the space has enough objects around so it can generate a model of the location. When model generation fails, it falls back to a "limited mode" where holograms follow you around instead of staying where you put them.
Oddly enough, the tracking system does not work in the dark, so you need some light to use it.
Yes, the holograms are literally objects made of light so at low brightness they are transparent, but if you crank up they will appear solid but you still won't confuse it for a real object because they are so bright.
I haven't watched a whole movie on it yet, but it wouldn't be a problem, the device is reasonably comfortable so you can wear it for hours
For long, I've fantasized carrying a theater screen around if you know I mean. So if you don't mind, I'd love to see the maximum size the movie app's screen could scale on the hololens.
Also, if you're doing the vid, kindly add
lazy mode scene" where you lie down watching a video affixed to the ceiling.
The problem isn't when you get banned, it is the fact that Google refuses to clearly communicate the reasons when there is real money at stake.
Google: "you delivered 30k worth of ads but I don't owe you anything because you broke the rules. I will not tell you which rules you broke or the URLs of the offending pages though, you will have to trust me"
Apple page on ergonomics? How ironic considering that most of their input devices are more like torture devices. Beautiful for sure but suitable for human use.
You are correct, their QC is more of a hardware solver for a very specific problem than a general purpose computer. On scaling, I was a D-Wave a few weeks ago, they seem to be prepared to scale-up the chip aggressively in 2012.
I think one has to be careful about the engineering challenge of scaling (which I think D-wave has heroically succeeded at so far) versus the question of whether the adiabatic algorithms in their system (finite temperature, imperfections, etc) will scale. I think they can pull of the first challenge (again, an amazing accomplishment), but the second is a question of whether the physics and computer science of their device will scale. I think the good news is that they will probably be able to answer this question in the next few years (thanks to the purchase of one of their devices my Lockheed Martin), but I do worry the answer they get won't be the one they are hoping for.
