Microsoft’s Kudo Tsunoda is very clear about the potential of HoloLens augmented reality glasses, and he does not doubt it when comparing them with virtual reality, emphasizing the benefits with respect to it.
Read on Gamespot that Kudo Tsunoda, one of the leaders of Kinect, says that HoloLens allows you to do things that virtual reality may not, as to merge the real world and the virtual “to achieve all kinds of different experiences”, a reference to the demos that Microsoft made during the announcement of HoloLens at CES in Las Vegas last January.
You can’t do any of these things with VR. And it’s not about attacking VR, in fact I think it’s a great technology. But the ‘fusion of both worlds’ that HoloLens allows is what makes it unique. From a gaming perspective, making your real world an integral part of the experience. This is what really sets it apart from a virtual reality experience.
Although Tsunoda is right that the fusion of the real and virtual worlds can provide incredible experiences, we must not forget that there are many experiences for which our goal is to completely block the real world. In fact, Phil Spencer, head of the Xbox division at Microsoft, already dropped at the GDC that they did not rule out incorporating virtual reality technologies to Xbox One. In our opinion, virtual and augmented reality will end up merging into the same device that is capable of both integrating the real world with the virtual one, and completely blocking the real world to offer pure virtual reality experiences, but it is something that we do not think will happen soon. What is your opinion?
