Yesterday Microsoft announced the availability of the HoloLens Developer Kits. The kits are available to developers who registered and were approved to get them. They will be shipped in waves with wave 1 shipping on March 30th. These kits are going for $3000 and are only available in the US and Canada. Making a real... Continue Reading →
A Universal Example
In my last post What Does It Mean to Be Universal, I talked about Microsoft’s new Universal Application Platform (name may be changing to Universal Windows Platform), coming in Windows 10. This new application platform allows you to build one application and run it on different platforms. In that post I told you how Microsoft... Continue Reading →
What Does It Mean To Be Universal
So what does it mean to be universal when it comes to Windows 10? A new way of building applications is coming in Windows 10. The past few years Microsoft has been on this path of converging all of their operating systems to run on a common core. Windows 10 is the culmination of this... Continue Reading →
Layout Awareness in Windows 10 UAP
There have been lots of changes with Windows of the past few years. A while back, Microsoft radically changed the way Windows worked with Windows 8. The goal was to start to converge the different operating systems into a single core. Windows 10 is the culmination of that convergence which started out as “Three Screens... Continue Reading →
Virtual Reality vs. Augmented Reality vs. Holograms
On January 21, 2015 Microsoft Announce that the science fiction of holograms has become science fact. They announced a new product, based on Windows 10, called HoloLens. The first self contained, wearable computer that can create holograms. This announcement has generated a buzz. If you haven’t seen the video Microsoft put out, take a minute,... Continue Reading →