{"id":57751,"date":"2017-05-27T19:06:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T02:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/microsoft-reveals-prototype-augmented-reality-glasses-that-dont-look-wacky"},"modified":"2017-06-02T14:01:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T21:01:25","slug":"microsoft-reveals-prototype-augmented-reality-glasses-that-dont-look-wacky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/microsoft-reveals-prototype-augmented-reality-glasses-that-dont-look-wacky","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft reveals prototype augmented reality glasses that don\u2019t look wacky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-reveals-prototype-augmented-reality-glasses-that-dont-look-wacky2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" data-gdsid=\"25619\" data-inline-quote-symbol=\"MSFT\" href=\"http:\/\/data.cnbc.com\/quotes\/MSFT\" target=\"_self\">Microsoft<\/a> on Friday unceremoniously revealed new prototype augmented-reality (AR) glasses that look like a normal pair of thick-framed glasses. The emergence of the technology indicates Microsoft has been thinking ways to go beyond the bulky and costly HoloLens headset it <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2015\/01\/22\/hololens-microsofts-augmented-reality-headset.html\" title=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2015\/01\/22\/hololens-microsofts-augmented-reality-headset.html\" target=\"_self\">unveiled<\/a> two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s still a lot of work to be done,\u201d Microsoft researchers Andrew Maimone, Andreas Georgiou, and Joel Kollin wrote in a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/holographic-near-eye-displays-virtual-augmented-reality\/\" title=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/holographic-near-eye-displays-virtual-augmented-reality\/\" target=\"_self\">paper<\/a> describing the glasses containing holographic display prototypes, which employ a technique called <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Digital_holography\" title=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Digital_holography\" target=\"_self\">digital holography<\/a>. The researchers will talk about their work at the <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/s2017.siggraph.org\/technical-papers\/sessions\/time-focus\" title=\"http:\/\/s2017.siggraph.org\/technical-papers\/sessions\/time-focus\" target=\"_self\">Siggraph conference<\/a> in Los Angeles in August.<\/p>\n<p>The paper comes a few weeks after <a class=\"\" data-gdsid=\"139619\" data-inline-quote-symbol=\"FB\" href=\"http:\/\/data.cnbc.com\/quotes\/FB\" target=\"_self\">Facebook<\/a> talked about building AR glasses. <a class=\"\" data-gdsid=\"163704\" data-inline-quote-symbol=\"SNAP\" href=\"http:\/\/data.cnbc.com\/quotes\/SNAP\" target=\"_self\">Snap<\/a>, which sells camera sunglasses for its Snapchat messaging app, has introduced AR software features, although it has not yet indicated it\u2019s working on proper AR glasses. <a class=\"\" data-gdsid=\"8016\" data-inline-quote-symbol=\"AAPL\" href=\"http:\/\/data.cnbc.com\/quotes\/AAPL\" target=\"_self\">Apple<\/a> is also thought to be developing AR technology.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/05\/19\/microsoft-reveals-prototype-augmented-reality-glasses-that-dont-look-wacky.html\">http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/05\/19\/microsoft-reveals-prototype-a...wacky.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft on Friday unceremoniously revealed new prototype augmented-reality (AR) glasses that look like a normal pair of thick-framed glasses. The emergence of the technology indicates Microsoft has been thinking ways to go beyond the bulky and costly HoloLens headset it unveiled two years ago. \u201cThere\u2019s still a lot of work to be done,\u201d Microsoft researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57949,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57751\/revisions\/57949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}