This new feature uses a special capture rig to put you in another place.
Microsoft wants to bring HoloLens users into a conversation with other folks who aren't in the room, using a technology developed by its research division that enables "holoportation."
It's a product of Microsoft Research's Interactive 3D Technologies group, which released a YouTube video showing different people appearing in a room alongside Shahram Izadi, a partner research manager. While Izadi was being recorded in person, the other people who joined him (including his daughter) were displayed as digital renderings while being recorded in another room.
The system uses a specialized capture rig to map how a person is moving around in real time, and sends a 3D image of them to the wearer of a HoloLens so that the two people can interact with one another.
There are still key parts of human interaction that are missing. Holoportation users can't touch one another, of course, and it's possible for one person to walk through the other in the middle of a conversation. There's also the matter of the HoloLens's field of view -- users will only see their conversation partners through a rectangular window at the center of their vision.
That means people who holoport into conversations could look a bit like they're floating in midair. It's hard to know without trying out on the HoloLens hardware itself.
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