Team Effort As for how Microsoft pulled off this remarkable demo, the first step was creating White's seemingly identical, life-sized hologram.

The next step in Windows technology is called Microsoft HoloLens — an augmented reality headset that uses holograms — operating system group technical fellow Alex Kipman announced today ...

Microsoft’s hologram headset is real, is absolutely coming to market, according to the company, and, for the most part, does what it says it does: creates interactive holograms in a user’s ...

Minecraft is a game we’ve seen countless times before. And yet! The virtual reality demo showcased by Microsoft today makes the game almost seem brand new.

In the last holographic demo of the day, Holo Studio, Microsoft showed how anyone could build and design 3-D objects through holographic computing, eventually printing such designs through 3-D ...

Image: Susie Ochs Microsoft Windows Holographic and the HoloLens headset will enable 3D gaming, like this demo of Minecraft played on an entire living room floor.

Microsoft Medical education seems to be another important use case Microsoft is promoting. Students can see a life-size hologram of the human body and zoom in to see different organs in detail.

During the demo, Dan “held” a holographic gauntlet gun that he used to fire lasers and blast robots as they hovered in the air or broke through the makeshift walls.

Microsoft announced wearable holograms for its HoloLens gaming platform at an event in New York today. The on-stage demonstration showed a game player wearing a HoloLens headset with a weapon ...

Imagine talking to a friend halfway across the world and feeling like you're in the same room. A Microsoft Hololens demo promises just that.

While today’s demo gives a glimpse at how the future of HoloLens might progress, Microsoft is offering grants to researchers to figure out some more impressive uses for HoloLens.