The HoloLens Revolution Is Coming

The HoloLens, if it comes close to its promises, will revolutionize gaming, interactive computing and, most of all, pornography, thanks to interactive cameras unlike anything previously imagined.

The promise of the HoloLens experience, which mixes the real world with the virtual world, will allow for all sorts of otherwise impossible action, and lead to a lot of rethinking of what you can do with virtual reality. This is often referred to as mixed or augmented reality with an emphasis on reality.

The possibilities for HoloLens are endless. Microsoft demonstrated a game in which monsters came through the walls of your house to kill you. What about substituting your favorite actor coming through the wall to hang out with you...perhaps to tantalize or tease you? This could work for women and men who might be more interested in this sort of interaction in the confines of the living room, rather than making any actual effort to go out to meet real people in real life. But it's the mere tip of the world's biggest digital iceberg.

Let's say it's Super Bowl Sunday. You have your friends over. You've made room for your virtual guests and suddenly two chairs appear next to a doorway. In comes Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon from ESPN's Pardon the Interruption. They sit down to the game with you and your real-world guests and provide critical insight as you all watch. You are one of 10,000 who paid $50 for these special virtual guests, who appear simultaneously everywhere.

There'd be options. How about having Joe Montana as the guest? Mike Ditka?

In another instance, Steven Colbert comes out of the screen and stands in your family room to perform the monologue from The Late Show. You could have a yearly subscription to that. Assume that Fallon and Kimmel would also have elaborate simulations. The whole show could be performed inside your home.

If anyone reading this is looking for a future-proof job: Augmented reality video director.

Over the years, the world has been promised hologram entertainment, but it's never been fully realized. The HoloLens will revive the idea and make it work.

How about using it as a new version of DVD extras: You watch a movie with the stars of said movie in a special HBO presentation. Leonardo, for an extra $50, is in your house commenting as The Revenant plays on TV.

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Whatever you choose to do, your place will be where all the action is. The next step is to virtualize yourself and have virtual webcam chats with friends, co-workers, or even strangers. The modern conference call will be a startlingly altered.

This is a lot different than fully immersive VR, such as that achieved by the enclosed mobile phone screen, even if the fully immersive idea utilizes the camera to stream the real world and intermix it with VR. That will have its uses, but HoloLens is better.

I'm actually kind of stunned by how Google missed this idea with its Google Glass nerd glasses. But this invention naturally stems from the thinking of the Xbox developers. Google does not have a high-end gamer operation to turn to.

If HoloLens works as advertised, then a revolution may be underway. Position yourself for this one or get steamrolled. It might easily become the biggest thing ever.