Microsoft HoloLens First Impressions

Microsoft HoloLens First Impressions -

The Citrix Redmond office, we had a chance to take an early look at a developing Edition or Microsoft HoloLens Augmented reality visor (or "Mixed reality" as Microsoft prefers to call it), that you can improve the real world with digital content. Unlike the obvious out of the way-always that this is really cool tech medium-playing to , which are some of our first thoughts about how the HoloLens and augmented reality business value and add to, more on the point, Citrix?

The HoloLens Experience

to answer this question, let us first to the HoloLens a look and describe the experiment we did. The HoloLens itself is worn as a visor, with the computing power required to enhance the reality in the visor existing view itself.

Nick Hirning, Citrix International, demonstrates the HoloLens

to create an augmented reality experience, we create leveraged the Citrix Octoblu IoT (Internet of things) platform an IoT workflow including the HoloLens.

of Octoblu HoloLens current

we have already worked with the Octoblu platform experiment the business opportunity for the Internet of things evaluate, and we wanted to see how easily we could create augmented reality and the Internet of things mingle into a convincing proof of concept.

What we accomplished in a very short time is pretty cool, successfully demonstrated how to use the HoloLens to control your local environment. Take a look at this unassuming cabin wall here in Redmond. You see a series of prints of different colors showing.

Regular Cab with print on the wall

Once you set the HoloLens on to enable printing in the air appears, a virtual trigger or button. Each color has its own virtual trigger appear before him.

Wearing the HoloLens, virtual trigger appear

key Selecting this virtual trigger with the finger (essentially this virtual button ) leads to a Phillips Hue light among themselves to change the color that you have selected.

selection of the virtual trigger

The HoloLens is the display of the virtual trigger for you. The Octoblu IoT workflow select conveying the act of finger across the virtual trigger and turn them into a workflow action, changing the color of Phillips Hue lamp in our office lamp.

Phillips Hue changing colors

We even have a virtual switch that is displayed on a monitor, only by looking at monitor an on / off switch will appear in which you turn off the monitor light, without actually touching the screen.

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Virtual trigger for a Monitor

, the business opportunity for HoloLens

Well, of course, that's a pretty simple scenario, but what it shows is convincing. We virtual interfaces overlaid in a real world office environment. Since this reality vs. purely immersive virtual reality is extended, we can easily interact with all the elements in the office. We can use the keyboard, drinking looking at the monitor, coffee and take notes on a notepad. We can improve this ordinary office experience by looking up an object, we can on our real world office virtual trigger overlay that can do anything we want, and can appear in front of us when we need them.

Obvious examples where this is for real business settings CAD (Computer Aided Design), where you want to visualize your design in 3D or applied to physical elements in your environment. to Even someone working in a sterile environment to change conditions in their environment by using virtual switches and buttons interfaces, such as doctors and nurses working in an emergency room in order to change the lighting, choice and patient information from the patient record interface without that physically touching screens and keyboards.

Another scenario, the elements of augmented reality and big data is the ability to easily search begins to melt contextual information about anything in the. Consider a person to a factory on foot, and they are able to access production and operational data looking only at trigger points. And the above-mentioned doctor is able to the emergency room quickly look at elements in and realtime vitals obtained from the patient with whom they work and the vital organs are combined with patient history to make the doctor the things carefully, to pay attention , These are just some ideas, and it is quite likely that the best applications for HoloLens ideas no one has thought of yet.

Augmented Reality and the opportunity for Citrix

Our brief experiment with the HoloLens leads me to believe that there is an enormous potential for augmented and mixed reality tools to be transformed for the Enterprise and HoloLens provides a pretty solid step towards this transformation.

What, then is the opportunity for Citrix? Citrix on securing further focused to mobilize and optimize app and data provision. In an increasingly complex world in which the digital company manages applications, data, services, equipment and people around the world to spread, the ultimate goal remains the same. Data must flow seamlessly, and applications must be securely displayed to users when and where they need it.

This objective remains the same whether your interface your laptop, your cell phone or a really cool interface that connects the digital and physical worlds together. It will be interesting to see how Augmented or Mixed Reality evolves with the business use case in mind, chances are that Citrix will be along for the ride are.

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