Thursday 24 August 2017

Microsoft patents an augmented reality wand

Microsoft has been working on its Windows Mixed Reality headsets for most of the year, but we haven’t heard much about the company’s plans with HoloLens. The software giant unveiled VR motion controllers earlier this year, for Mixed Reality headsets, and now it looks like Microsoft is working on a wand-like controller for augmented reality and HoloLens. A patent filing, spotted by WalkingCat, reveals an accessory that looks like wand and has buttons, a trigger, and a finger guard.

It looks similar to Google’s Draw accessory for Google Glass, and expands on the controls available with the HoloLens...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/24/16195850/microsoft-wand-augmented-reality-mixed-reality-controller

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/08/microsoft-patents-augmented-reality-wand.html

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