A brief AR hx of SpaceOpera & future of MR games thru Microsoft HoloLens playing No Man's Sky
4Welcome to Holo No Man's Sky , well not really but then again?. This is an example of how MR HMDs and holograms can be used to augment non MR gaming. Here I am playing No Man's Sky on a plasma screen using Steam Link over the cloud from a gaming PC 3 floors away , in a room full of HoloLens holographic apps , apps that I can use to augment the experience of said playing of No Man's Sky. Although the video shows a flickering plasma screen , I see no flicker thru the HoloLens .In the video I discuss my thoughts on some of the possibilities that HMDs like HoloLens bring ... for developers and gamers , it's no longer see you in the game Palmer... it's see your game and your holograms in your world ... ( I'm sure Microsoft can come up with a catchier tag line ) This is just one way to exploit a MR HMD to play No Man's Sky more methods and thoughts coming up as they come to mind and I continue to HMD augment playing No Man's Sky ... I should be finished by the 1st quintillionth planet ( promise)
NB I see no flicker thru HoloLens , you can play with any normal /legacy display and combine holographic apps over and around it
Also the grayed menus/browsers you see are actually black and totally transparent on HoloLens, so I can actually overlay them without blocking the game , e.g the No Man's Sky web page /news