Having fun with holograms
When you get a chance to sit down with someone like Kudo Tsunoda, you jump at the opportunity. Many know him as the man behind Microsoft's Kinect motion control sensor. He's the corporate president of Microsoft and is now overseeing multiple Xbox teams. Tsunoda is also in charge of developing HoloLens, a mixed reality or augmented reality platform that fills real world environments with virtual objects.
Microsoft is keeping a lot of the underlying technology in HoloLens under wraps at the moment, though Tsunoda did tell us that one of the parts is a custom piece of silicon called the Holographic Processing Unit. Obviously there are multiple sensors involved too, but the overall spec sheet isn't something Microsoft is ready to reveal -- we doubt the parts have been finalized yet anyway.
Though Microsoft has been focused on its Xbox consoles for the past several years, the company is getting back into PC gaming with Windows 10. Not that Microsoft ever completely left, but few would dispute that PC gaming hasn't exactly been a top priority of Microsoft's as of late.
Part of the reason Microsoft is making a bigger effort to cater to PC gaming is so that Xbox gamers can play with their PC gaming buddies. For example, Fable Legends features cross play between Windows 10 and Xbox One gamers. This mindset, if fully embraced by developers, bridges the gap between PC and console gamers and creates one large community of gamers.
Tsunoda also talked about its partnerships with Oculus and Valve. Check out what he had to say about both:
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