A robotic alien blasts its way through your office wall, pulls itself through the opening and anchors three metallic appendages into the drywall. Smaller drones start rocketing through a hole in the center of its body, buzzing around your head with homicidal intent.
Though it might seem like it, this is not a workday hallucination. It’s a game played using the Microsoft HoloLens, a cutting-edge new technology capable of bringing 3-dimensional virtual words to life within real-world settings.
Developers with Grand Rapids tech firm Open Systems Technologies (OST) believe the immersive “augmented reality” enabled by the smartglasses have potentially game-changing applications for industries from healthcare to warehousing. Watch a brief demonstration of how the HoloLens works:
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Source: M Live