I don’t know about military, but there was a number of successful applications of hololens in the industrial environment. It never went anywhere where I saw it, because the device was too expensive, too experimental, and it was impossible to purchase, but the ideas were ok.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That fashion started, if anyone remembers, with Google Glass. And those for me appear very nice.
But if most people won’t read text on transparent background (even transparent terminal emulator windows), then trying to process information with real world in the background is harder.
Successful applications and OK ideas can sometimes be false positives, because it’s, #1, safe to approve of something that won’t be implemented anyway, #2, the initiative to try something often comes from superiors who only want to hear disapproval or approval of specific things about the initiative, and about the initiative itself only approval, #3, I like some things for short periods, but I wouldn’t ever be able to use something like Hearthstone’s UI at work.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 week ago
There is a wast difference between Google glasses and hololens.
The industrial application that I was using it worked as a concept, and I mean worked in reality, not what you are talking about. I used it, and it did saved me time and labour, even in that preliminary stage. I don’t know would it work on a larger scale, but that three devices that the whole factory floor had access to were in use the whole time, and in a conservative industry it’s saying something.