Other than Minecraft on your table top, what type of games do you think AR will bring?

VR crushes AR

VR is closer to getting jacked in to Matrix (closer)

AR is closer to taking acid in your living room, your not going anywhere.

Do you remember...Milo?

Well I do.

@Microsoft and their Videos.

VR is just more immersive point blank. I look forward to both but im on that VR band wagon for what its offering in terms of immersion.

YES. For the larger consumer base, this makes VR obsolete. Proof? Everybody is talking about this on YouTube, right now. I said over and over, even before the Prototype SR, that Sony should make a VR/AR headset. I believe there were articles back then about the Prototype SR and the minority report style applications it could have, now Microsoft has created that, and have creative ways of applying it, they (Sony) are always last place in these things, they never fully flush out their ideas, they take a risk, and do the bare minimum.

Microsofts cloud gaming will squash PS Now, by fully flushing out that concept, Kinect squashed Move, by fully flushing out that concept, If Microsoft created a phone/handheld like I said the vita should be, they'd squash vita, and Hololens will crush Morpheus, by fully flushing out that concept.

I see gaming with AR as being able to have the game in your room (instead of just in the monitor/TV). VR is more like you being in the game.
Both will give new experiences but I think they are suited to different types of games. For example, AR could be great with a RTS game as you could control units on a map projected on a wall or floor. With VR you would be the General on the ground issuing orders, or you could be a soldier fighting on the front lines similar to Sword Art Online.

I'm very much for VR but great though it obviously is, it can't offer anything past what it does. As soon as you get your head around what MS actually has here, you realise how much further this goes than simply putting you into a scene- it's way beyond that. To say VR is better is to not see the potential in MS's new tech

It's up the individual. Some will like AR more, some well like VR.

ms ar concept is so far away. how can that display so close to your eyes not produce double vision?

it just seems like an idea and they never really thought sbout anything else.

I wonder if they see the irony of having put 'reality check' in the title.

Okaay, here we go with 1 tech making another one obsolete! For starters I'm for one am amazed at how suddenly IR has become the coolest thing since sliced bread! Sure now it's being re-introduced in a glass form, the tech is definitely not new, but on that note Microsoft has certainly piqued my interest in how they bring their version to the market as well as how it's applied.

Next what bearing does IR have on VR!? Absolutely none! They are entirely two different concepts. IR is not about total immersion, VR on the other hand is! Both technologies can co-exist on the market and will whether some like it or not.

Right now there are so many different technologies that have yet been brought to the market, but they are out there! Just yesterday I actually saw and interacted with a real Hologram. And guess who in possession of the technology? Apple.....

Yes they did ... MS is making everything obsolete with their own unique sub-par offerings in many technical arenas. Will mosdef put occulus out of business, and with teh cloud and DX12 ... zomg so much power ... think it be Sauron

Just a question: Can you make a VR device of the Hololens by placing a (modified) black cap over the device? Would't the only problem then remaining be that Hololens has a very narrow field of view?

@"Did Microsoft just make VR obsolete?"

Don't think so

Omg lol, are these guys serious?

Gotta love the media (specially western)and their biased BS, da cloudssz, dx12szz and now the Holololenssz...lol GTFO!

Unless Hololens can put you in a full virtual world, then no. The two devices are quite different and I'm looking forward from both of them.

They definitely did.

Yes, for the next 5-7 years. VA isn't ready yet, and by the time it is it will be competing with 4k, glassless, OLED, 3D

AR isn't a revolutionary concept. We just used to call it psychedelics /s

Hololens is meant for business applications no matter how you want to dream about using it for gaming because if they put this on the Xbox One it will suffer the same faith as the Kinect. If you truly know the the xbox brand than you should know why kinect failed and that was because of lack of games and people just lost focus for it. Now this generation it was mandatory at first to have kinect but now you don't have to have it which pretty much puts less pressure on devs to do anything for the device except fitness and dance. Hololens will be no different and will have a few devs make games for it but no one is going to buy an additional hardware for a console if there is not going to be any good software on it without loosing focus on the main console. This is what consumers and gamers will look at when making judgement on the Hololens because of xbox history of not delivering good software with added hardware that is suppose to increase your gaming experience and that can be said about move but Morpheus tittles and Oculus rift titles have more potential than anything AR will be putting out. Maybe if they had started this at the end of the 360 life cycle yes they could make VR obsolete until VR advances again.

AR isn't for gaming, but very VERY go for porn.

I want to see how this actually works when it launches. It looks cool but so did the kinect when they showed that first trailer and well it didn't come out as great as promised.

Don't know about all that which this article is try to convey but MS did just send a signal that AR is here and want to introduce its self as a player in this field also.

ya because people gonna be running, fighting, and shooting all over their furniture.....

VR & AR have there own benifits & shouldn't really be compared or put against each other.

Though I will say AR sounds & looks good, imagin playing a FPS where your ammo count & other HUD items are floating in front of you, that to me would be so cool.

Or in say a new splinter cell game where you can use the AR glasses to pick a lock with your hands/finger, that would be so cool aswell.

Personally I'd rather had seen MS invest those resources in adding more development studios and new game IP's. Gizmos and gadgets aren't what makes me buy consoles. It's games.

No one on here has experienced either yet so saying which is more immersive will come down to whether your a Sony or MS fan plain and simple,and that's how the majority on here will determine what they prefer,I have X1 and PS4 and guess what I prefer out of AR or VR? Answer I don't know yet

Both AR and VR show promise for gaming and other applications. But it is still very early days. Within my lifetime I hope I get to see full immersion with bodysuits containing feedback sensors to simulate touch etc, and uncanny valley lifelike graphics. Or the Holodeck.

I was hoping sony would of expanded their augments reality from vita into something bigger but this is really cool to see ms finally diving into future tech and taking some chances. Kinect is a no for but this other stuff could persuade people like myself to take a chance and get the xboxone. Finally.

I don't think the concepts are in the same categories for one's success spell the demise of the other. I mean, google eye was AR, that didn't stop VR to come to be. Personally, I'm much more excited for VR as a gamer, but I see huge potential for both devices/technologies.

Both technologies can exist together. This is different from VR, and offers something different.

People believe me Microsoft are going to reveal a VR Headset at E3. They just didn't partner with a japanese start up Fove Inc. back in june for nothing. HoloLens is a Microsoft Lab Studio (in house )venture. Where partnering with Fove is licensing VR and Eye Tracking Technology (I remember reading that Fove shipping SDK Kits out to game developers in December).I believe MS can and will do both AR and VR making Xone and Windows 10 PCs the only place to have the best of both experience.

I aslo mention in another article about MS paying $400 million to the NFL for making the Surface Pro 3 The Official Tablet of the NFL and would it be cool incorporate the HoloLens in to the NFL or any other sports(just think of the potential can be).

Didn't Sony show they have multiple headsets that do this (Augmented reality) and/or what Oculus Rift does (Virtual Reality)?

This feels like MS is playing catchup again. I liked their idea of the projector that projected the image around the room on walls way better. THAT no one else has done yet! Anyways, hopefully all are done well and aren't too pricey.

They are two different things. So no. Arguably it blows VR away in some aspects such as apps and maybe some types of games. VR however blows AR away in other ways. Until AR can comletely immerse you or the whole living room in an environment? VR will have that in its back pocket as a upperhand. However when the day does come Holograms can engulf the entire room we are talking about a whole other level VR cant touch.

and if they are affordable I want them both. It could be like owning Xbox vs PS4. As long as we can afford the price of entry to both.

Both AR and VR looks promising to me. I think their targets are different. Someone might be only interested in AR, or only interested in VR or interested in both. I don't think one is competing with each other, but one could have way more success than the other if done right.

This is a different way of creating immersion. That's it. A man isn't as impressed by it based on previews and judging by the Kinect teaser which promised much more than it actually delivered but won't judge until he's played a game on both.

It's funny that people think VR is a new thing.... like 3D a few years ago...

RoFL. Ok, as a Sony fan, even I have to acknowledge that this AR thing is cool, but the author of this article needs a reality check. If true VR were a thing, on what planet would an AR interface make that obsolete? On the other hand, I don't see true VR being a thing for a while, though I'm open to seeing what can be done with Oculus and Morpheus.

I'm all for this tech but MS is known for plenty of smoke & mirrors the past couple of years! How much of what we've been teased is tangible & can be executed compared to what's been shown? I'm willing to bet... Not a lot

I suspect that in the next few years there will be AR and VR in one device Probably in the windows 10 lifetime.

Mh... this is different from VR and not so appealing compared to it. In VR if you look around you are somewhere else. With AR... you see images on your forniture.

No reality check, they just made holograms a passing fad no one cares about just like Kinect, 3D and VR. Oh and FYI holograms in gaming is nothing new there was a coin op game in arcades in the 80's that did it but I'm sure xbox fanboys will claim Microsoft invented it.

Hololens will be another kinect flop for gaming but for other PC stuff it may succeed. It has potential but not for gaming. VR has a lot more potential for gaming. Like someone said, if I can see my house then the immersion is totally destroyed.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau

Wuchang is great. Nine Sols didn’t have a physical copy so I never played it but I’ve heard good things so I will check it out. I stopped playing sports games many years ago when before the card dlc’s or whatever they’re called.

Last comment… ):

Great month for others, but not me. Hate soccer and soulslikes. Maybe Nine Sols is good.

🫡 it was fun while it lasted, N4G.

FC26!