A group of University of Washington students got a chance to enroll in a special class where they could learn how to make apps for the Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality headset in 10 weeks.
GeekWire reports that the students got some help from Microsoft, who sent over 25 of the HoloLens headsets for the special class. The students got to demo their final app creations this week in front of Microsoft executives, including HoloLens leader Alex Kipman:
The energy inside the UW CSE building was buzzing as attendees tested out an array of fun and entertaining futuristic applications that ranged from making spring rolls to playing chess to learning piano to flying paper airplanes to destroying giant eyeballs. "Some of the projects were really mind-blowing," said Ed Lazowska, the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair for UW CSE. "What UW students manage to achieve in 10 weeks is amazing."
The university is already planning to offer another virtual-augmented reality class for its students this fall.
Check out the University of Washington's HoloLens app presentations
Reader comments
University of Washington students were part of the world's first Microsoft HoloLens class
Lucckkkyyy, wish my university had a class like that. I have my own hololens and have taught myself how to make apps for it, but it still would've been nice to have a whole class on it.
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Gigidy Gigidy Gigidy Gigidy Gigidy Gigidy Gigidy.... Hololense
Well, now we know who will be making the next group of MS garage apps for android and ios.
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Damn suddenly wish I was studying CS in UW! I bet other nearby departments would be super-jealous lol!
One more, then I'll quit.... Jelly.. They'll be Jelly.
Wow! I'd cook more if I had a Hololens and Holo To Cook! Hmmm, maybe for Father's Day 2018....
Yeah, for like a week.. Then it would sit on the shelf covered in pizza boxes.. Lol. You know it's true.
LOL!!!!!
Lol... They DV'd you for laughing at my stupid comment.
Trolls are also welcome to Hololoosers.
Holoween?????
Wouldn't that rather be... Holoosers?
Hololens is what ms will use to flex its muscles in the nearest future....i can see another monopoly in computing.with hololens,holoportation,sensors,patents and windows holographic,i dont see how apple,google and even magic leap( with their merlin-esque AR headset) will be able to catch up
Its good to know that they've solved the fov problem with sparselight vr (laser tech)
You say nearest future like there's several alternative futures coming up. Lol..
Lol.
I think MS is not going for a monopoly here. They will hand over it to oems and sit back.
Err no its a bandaid and some of the testing looks promising for motion sickness but the larger the display FoV the less it can compensate. So no its an inherent problem for VR unless you sync the motion to user motion which limits the device. AR has huge advantages in this respect though not the immersive game play. It will be interesting
Ok ok.. I'll quit pestering people... I couldn't resist.
Daniel!! Please don't do it!
If there be another class let's ask go and rahe admission into UW
Wish my University had this device when I graduated!!
Lucky class !!!!
Wen are they going to test from Zimbabwe University?
Until when Robert permits
This is one of those things that the more informed/educated people will get excited about. Not everybody understands what UWP or even HoloLens is, but once they do we will see that it can rock the world to the core of day to day life, more than we can exactly predict.