Microsoft announced that they are looking for proposals for academic research on possible applications for their new holographic computing platform, “HoloLens”. The move is a strategic initiative to bolster the software development support for what is a bleeding edge consumer technology product. While demos do show the amazing potential of the product, most applications are limited to games and visual effects that may not have a lot of practical uses in the real world.
This push will add much needed substance to the platform and expand its reach. Microsoft has said that they expect that researchers “will envision novel ways of using HoloLens-from interactively teaching studetns, to creating mixed-reality art installations, to manipulating holographic data to reveal new relationships…. to who knows what.”
All submissions for the program and a guide to the submission process is available at Microsoft Research’s website and HoloLens portal here.
Source: Microsoft
