Top 5 Most Creative HoloLens Demos
The Microsoft HoloLens is an impressive piece of technology we develop applications for, and it’s set to only get better with the release of its successor. Developers have come up with some great ways to demonstrate what the headset can do. Here’s a collection of what we think are some of the coolest HoloLens demos we’ve collected from around the net!
5 – Super Mario AR
Everybody loves Super Mario Bros, but not everyone has played a life sized, first person version of it! This play-through of Abhishek Singh’s AR Mario was recorded in New York’s Central Park, and went viral soon after. This demo is great because it displays how huge and seamlessly integrated holograms in the HoloLens can be!
4 – Robot Demo
This one is from the presentation at which Microsoft officially unveiled the HoloLens- making it one of the first demos, but I think it holds up. Seeing how holograms can stick to real world objects and augment them is fascinating, and makes it easy to imagine how an eventual consumer version of this technology will change how we view the real world.
3 – Portal in AR
Valve’s Portal in itself is already a really cool concept. For the uninitiated- Portal is a first person shooter game where you are armed with a gun that shoots portals rather than bullets, and tasked with solving a series of puzzles. The great thing about the game is how it handles the physics of objects going through the portals- and this is faithfully recreated in this AR demo. Portals are even cooler when you can put them on things in real life! Unfortunately, you can’t walk through them yet.
2 – The Rubik’s Cube Solver
This one is a great way to illustrate how Mixed Reality has the capability to change the way a lot of people do their jobs. Using a special smart Rubik’s Cube (called a GiiKER Bluetooth Cube) paired with a HoloLens, Andras Velvart was able to create an experience that calculates which move the user should make next in order to solve the cube, and overlays it in MR. In our increasingly connected world, it’s easy to imagine the implications of something like this in industry. Having AI help a human solve a problem by showing them what to do- dynamically- is the future.
1 – HoloLems
Lemmings is one of those classic puzzle platformers you’re surely familiar with if you’re into 90s games. The goal of the original Lemmings is to guide a group of lemmings through an obstacle course to the exit. Not only does HoloLems have a great name- but this Hololens demo also does a great job of showing off the very smart spacial mapping and object recognition features of the HoloLens. Real life couches and tables became part of the obstacle course. How neat is that?