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Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the award of B.tech Degree in
COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
of Maharishi Markandeshwar Engineering College
By
Bharat Kumar
Under the guidance of
November 2016
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Maharishi Markandeshwar Engineering College
Maharishi Markandeshwar University, Mullana-133207
Seminar Coordinator
ABSTARCT
This seminar examines the new technology of Holographic Projections (Microsoft
HoloLens). It highlights the importance and need of this technology and how it
represents the new wave in the future of technology and communication, the different
application of the technology the fields of life it will dramatically affect including
business, education, telecommunication and healthcare. The paper also discusses the
future of holographic technology and how it will prevail in the coming years
highlighting how it will also affect and reshape many other fields of life, technologies
and businesses.
HoloLens is essentially a holographic computer built into a headset that lets
you see, hear and interact with holograms within an environment such as a living
room or an office space. It is based on Augmented reality, Augmented reality (AR) is
a live direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements
are augmented (or supplemented) by computer-generated sensory input such as sound,
video, graphics or GPS data.
The history of augmented reality can be traced back to 1990 and work undertaken by
Professor Tom Caudell as part of a neural systems project at Boeing. This project was
focused upon finding new ways to help the company's engineering process and
involved the use of virtual reality. Augmented reality is the blending of virtual reality
and real life, as developers can create images within applications that blend in with
contents in the real world. With AR, users are able to interact with virtual contents in
the real world, and are able to distinguish between the two.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I have immense pleasure to present this seminar on Microsoft HoloLens, a
topic of my personal interest. Firstly, I thank God, the almighty for giving me such a
great opportunity to present this seminar.
I express my sincere gratitude to Mr. Sandeep Goyal (HOD of Computer
Science & Technology) for his support.
I sincerely express my gratitude to all other teachers and my dear friends for
their valuable co-operation and help.
Bharat Kumar
CONTENTS
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1. Introduction
2.1. Holograms
3. Advantages of Holographic Projection
3.1. Microsoft HoloLens
4. Working of HoloLens
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1. Introduction
Microsoft HoloLens, known under development as Project Baraboo, is a pair of
mixed reality head-mounted smartglasses developed and manufactured by Microsoft.
HoloLens is essentially a holographic computer built into a headset that lets you see,
hear and interact with holograms within an environment such as a living room or an
office space. It is based on Augmented reality, Augmented reality (AR) is a live direct
or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented
(or supplemented) by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video,
graphics or GPS data.
The history of augmented reality can be traced back to 1990 and work undertaken by
Professor Tom Caudell as part of a neural systems project at Boeing. This project was
focused upon finding new ways to help the company's engineering process and
involved the use of virtual reality.
Augmented reality is the blending of virtual reality and real life, as developers can
create images within applications that blend in with contents in the real world. With
AR, users are able to interact with virtual contents in the real world, and are able to
distinguish between the two.
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2. 3D Holographic Technology
Holography is a diffraction-based coherent imaging technique in which a complex
three-dimensional object can be reproduced from a flat, two-dimensional screen with
a complex transparency representing amplitude and phase values. It is commonly
agreed that real-time holography is the ne plus ultra art and science of visualizing fast
temporally changing 3-D scenes. The integration of the real-time or
electro-holographic principle into display technology is one of the most promising but
also challenging developments for the future consumer display and TV market. Only
holography allows the reconstruction of natural-looking 3-D scenes, and
therefore provides observers with a completely comfortable viewing experience.
A HoloLens will use holographic technology to project large-scale, high-resolution
images onto a variety of different surfaces, at different focal distances, from a
relatively small-scale projection device. To understand the technology used in
HoloLens, we must understand the term Hologram, and the process of making and
projecting holograms. Holography is a technique that allows the light scattered from
an object to be recorded and later reconstructed. The technique to optically store,
retrieve, and process information. The holograms preserve the 3-D information of a
holographed subject, which helps to project 3D images.
2.1. Holograms
A hologram is a physical component or device that stores information about the
holographic image. For example a hologram can be a grating recorded on a piece of
film. It is especially useful to be able to record a full image of an object in a short
exposure if the object or space changes in time. Holos means whole and graphein
means writing. Holography is a technique that is used to display objects or scenes in
three dimensions. These 3D images are called holograms. A photographic
record produced by illuminating the object with coherent light (as from a laser) and,
without using lenses, exposing a film to light reflected from this object and to a direct
beam of coherent light. When interference patterns on the film are illuminated by the
coherent light a three-dimensional image is produced.
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As seen in above fig. 3.1, That is actual picture of wearable augmented reality from
Microsoft named by HoloLens. This is the first holographic computer which is
running on Windows 10. It is completely unattached as no wires, phones or computers
needed, it is a computer itself.
The premier device for Windows Holographic, Microsoft HoloLens is a smart-glasses
headset that is a cordless, self-contained Windows 10 computer. It uses various
sensors, a high-definition stereoscopic 3D optical head-mounted display, and spatial
sound to allow for augmented reality applications, with a natural user interface that
the user interacts with through gaze, voice, and hand gestures. Codenamed "Project
Baraboo," HoloLens had been in development for five years before its announcement
in 2015, but was conceived earlier as the original pitch made in late 2007 for what
would become the Kinect technology platform. It was introduced with operating
systems, such as Android, iOS and OS X on April 5, 2016.
Microsoft has targeted HoloLens for release "in the Windows 10 timeframe," with the
Microsoft HoloLens Development Edition to begin shipping March 30, 2016,
Microsoft has not set a time frame for consumer availability of HoloLens, with
HoloLens chief inventor Alex Kipman stating that HoloLens will have a consumer
release only when the market is ready for it. Companies such as Samsung Electronics
and Asus had expressed interest in working with Microsoft to produce their own
mixed-reality products based on HoloLens
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4. Working of HoloLens
Microsoft hololens has user interface so it takes voice, gaze and gestures as input
command. Than internal computer works on input command. Now projection of
hologram, for projection hololens use the HUE(head up display) method two
nanoprojector located at each side of head and semi transparent visor which reflect the
image as light on users eye.
Microsoft explains the holographic element in this way: The key to a great
holographic experience holograms that are light point rich, i.e. have a high
holographic density, and are pinned or anchored to the world around you. To achieve
this, HoloLens has been designed for optimal holographic density of 2.5K radiants.
The more radiant and light points there are, the brighter and richer the holograms
become.
We here divide it in three parts to make easy to understand, in one of them we study
the major hardware parts of it, and specification than we will move to the real world
example of augmented reality based HoloLens.
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Lenses : Microsoft HoloLens has two display. They are transparent so that wearer can
see the real world behind virtual object. To create project HoloLens image, light
particles bounce around millions of times in the so called light engine of the device.
Then the photons enter the two lenses(one for each eye), where they ricochet between
layers of glasses before finally hitting of wearer eye.
Vent : The device is more powerfull than a laptop but wont overheat- warm air flows
to the sides, where it vents up and out.
Sensor : Sensor track where the wearer is looking and adjust the display. Motion
sensor detect wearers movement. The sensor can also see wearers hands, the hands
are an input system: user can interact with whatever he sees by just touching it.
Wearer also give gesture as input sensor enables the tracking of user movement.
Buttons : On the right side buttons allow user to adjust the volume and to control the
contrast of the hologram.
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1 IMU
1 depth camera
4 microphones
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Human Understanding
Spatial sound
Gaze tracking
Gesture input
Voice support
Built-in speakers
Volume up/down
Brightness up/down
Power button
Wi-Fi 802.11ac
Bluetooth 4.1 LE
Power
Battery Life
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Processors
Weight
579g
Memory
64GB Flash
2GB RAM
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One of the most fascinating uses, at least for the folks at NASA, which collaborated
with Microsoft in the making of HoloLens, is the potential to control the Mars rover
Curiosity via the HoloLens. The headset will give NASA staff the ability to plant
virtual flags in the terrain and work as if they're actually on the planet themselves.
Microsoft is also partnering with other companies to use HoloLens in practical ways.
Volvo is expected to bring the technology to its car showrooms where customers will
be able to view different colour options for their chosen car and see safety features in
action. The car maker is also expected to integrate HoloLens tech into its autonomous
vehicle projects, although it remains unclear how.
At Microsoft's 2015 Build developer conference, we got to see other ways HoloLens
could be used. The company treating us to demos of physiology students exploring
the human anatomy, a Raspberry Pi-powered robot with HoloLens support, and how
architects can use the augmented reality elements to help construct buildings with
Windows 10 at the core.
But what about gaming with HoloLens? Well Microsoft is doing that as well and the
first example of what it's calling mixed reality gaming was demonstrated at
Microsoft's E3 2015 press conference.
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Having snapped up Minecraft-maker Mojang for a cool $2.5 billion, the first
Minecraft game designed for Hololens lets you project maps onto a physical table
simply by saying the words, 'create world'. Then with your hands, you can play with
items and characters. This can be done all while another player is immersed in the
Minecraft world from a Microsoft Surface tablet.
At a Windows 10 event late last year, Microsoft showed off a brand new demo known
as Project X-Ray, which showcases mixed reality technology.
An unknown wearer took to the stage wearing the HoloLens and quickly donned a
wearable hologram, in the form of some kind of space blaster. He shot through one of
the walls on the stage a few times, but then suddenly a crack started to appear and a
mechanic alien burst through it.
The robots themselves know where the walls and furniture are in your space, meaning
the gameplay is tailored to you. There's options to change your weapons using voice
commands and there's a tonne of different enemies that you'll come up against.
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There's clearly some exciting possibilities here and we can't wait to see what else
Microsoft has planned on the gaming front.
In late March 2016, an impressive video showcasing 'holoportation' appeared online.
The Microsoft research video (below) demonstrated how it's possible to use the
HoloLens to teleport a 3D version of yourself into another HoloLens wearer's field of
view. Of course, the whole thing requires multiple cameras in order to work, so you're
still a long way from chatting to virtual versions of your mates in your living room.
But the video was another example of how innovative Microsoft's headset has the
potential to be.
Along with the launch of the HoloLens developer edition came news of the first
confirmed games and apps for the headset. Microsoft confirmed that the dev kit would
come with seven pre-installed AR experiences. On the app side, there's HoloStudio,
Skype, and HoloTour, while games include Fragments, Young Conker, and
RoboRaid.
In March 2016, Microsoft showed off a seriously cool new app called Actiongram,
which it plans to launch in the summer. The storytelling app will allow developers to
create videos featuring holographic effects for use with the headset.
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5. Advantages of HoloLens
Easy to wear and use.
Sensitive and responsive to the presence of pepole.
Hololens can be used in army battlefield,where detailed instruction can be given
to the untrained person in the midest of combat.
A spectacle based computer to reside directly
On your eyes rather than your pocket.
6. Dis-advantages of HoloLens
Can be easily damaged or broken.user will have a tough time taking care of it.
It may lead to accident while driving.
Privacy of people may break due to new glasses.
7. Augmented Reality
Augmented reality (AR) is a live direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world
environment whose elements are augmented (or supplemented) by
computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data. It is
related to a more general concept called mediated reality, in which a view of reality is
modified (possibly even diminished rather than augmented) by a computer. As a
result, the technology functions by enhancing ones current perception of reality.By
contrast, virtual reality replaces the real world with a simulated one. Augmentation is
conventionally in real-time and in semantic context with environmental elements,
such as sports scores on TV during a match. With the help of advanced AR
technology (e.g. adding computer vision and object recognition) the information about
the surrounding real world of the user becomes interactive and digitally manipulable.
Information about the environment and its objects is overlaid on the real world. This
information can be virtual or real, e.g. seeing other real sensed or measured
information such as electromagnetic radio waves overlaid in exact alignment with
where they actually are in space. Augmented reality brings out the components of the
digital world into a person's perceived real world. One example is an AR Helmet for
construction workers which displays information about the construction sites.
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9. Conclusion
The premier device for Windows Holographic, Microsoft HoloLens is a smart-glasses
headset that is cordless, self-contained Windows 10 computer. It uses advance sensors,
a high-definition stereoscopic 3D optical head-mounted display, and spatial sound to
allow to augmented reality applications, with a nature user interface that the user
interact with trough gaze, voice and hand gestures that gives you ways to go beyond
the screen, so see your world as a canvas, and gives you more natural way to interact.
HoloLens is a thing where you can connect, create and explore like never before,
Create what you imagine, visualize your work, collaborate and explore.
HoloLens with Holographic processing unit, sensor fusion, power and grace,
advanced optics, build in speakers, spatial sound gives you the new augmented or
virtual world over real world. Without bumping to walls you can watch NetFlix, play
Minicraft, use AutoCAD, talk to Dad on Skype, design a brand new car, and so on
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