While the next-generation
HoloLens does not have a launch date yet, we now have a better idea of how big
a leap the device will take in terms of depth sensor performance. At the recent
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, held in Salt Lake City,
Utah in June, Microsoft researchers gave a tutorial showing off the new
HoloLens Research Mode, which gives developers access to the device's sensor
data.
During the tutorial, the
researchers showed the audience a preview of the depth sensor feed from the
Project Kinect for Azure, which Microsoft unveiled earlier this year as the
sensor for the next version of HoloLens. The sensor's higher frame rate at long
range is also on display, and the sensor captures audience members as far as
eight rows back, while the point cloud (below right) shows details of chairs
and people.
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