Microsoft's nerd goggles will run on a toaster Microsoft's nerd goggles require only a humble PC. But then who needs more than 640KB? Redmond has published the minimum requirements needed to run its AR/VR platform and they're surprisingly humble. Microsoft Holographic, which will be part of future Windows 10 releases, requires a PC with a GPU, but not necessarily a new or …
You say "This makes the minimum requirements... far lower than Microsoft's high-end "augmented reality" platform HoloLens.", but HoloLens is a standalone device that doesn't require a separate PC, so it doesn't have minimum requirements for such.
Yes, this article makes no sense, or I'm confused. As far as I'm aware, the only "nerd goggles" Microsoft is producing is HoloLens. Windows Holographic is not "nerd goggles" in any sense that I can relate to; it's an augmented reality software platform which requires a suitable display device to display its output; that is HoloLens right now. So contrasting the requirements for Windows Holographic and HoloLens would not seem to be meaningful.
Microsoft has also said it plans to make Windows Holographic work with other VR display devices than HoloLens in the future, but again, contrasting the requirements for Holographic with the requirements for its potential display devices doesn't seem to get you anywhere, since you'd be using both.
Also says needs USB3, but since the Hololens goggles (at least the dev versions do) come with a micro USB2 lead...... pretty sure someone screwed up somewhere.
(this post - with zero changes - was originally rejected. Seems to have been happening a lot since I called out a certain editor [not A.Orlowski] on his make believe stories a while back, hmmm... wonder if it could be related?)
Actually, I saw Windows 95 running in 4MB on a 16MHz 386SX. It booted. It ran. It was possibly the slowest computer that I’ve ever seen. Slower even than a 233MHz ‘Bondi’ iMac with 64MB RAM running MacOS X 10.1 - and that was pretty tragic.
I look forward to seeing these gogs running with Linux or macOS. In the new Microsoft, anything’s possible.
"Actually, I saw Windows 95 running in 4MB on a 16MHz 386SX. It booted. It ran. It was possibly the slowest computer that I’ve ever seen"
I just bought a Lenovo half the price of Apple Mac Pro with 2G just for GPU, main memory 4G RAM.
4G RAM seems standard on decent laptops.
The local shops and supermarkets have poor spec laptops, but then they cost less than a decent phone or tablet.
Even a basic box shifter like PC Word has 8GB as their most common format
A quick rough count on their web site shows about 180 models with 8GB or more, and only 23 that are less than 4GB, and those are labelled as being for very light use only.
AC, well it's PC World init! Last time I went in there, one of their assistants was asking me for advice on Chromebooks!
"AC, well it's PC World init! Last time I went in there, one of their assistants was asking me for advice on Chromebooks!"
Well what do you expect? They're there to assist you in removing money from your bank account. Not to assist you in buying what you need.
Pedant mode
WHY are LCD TVs with LED back lights called LED TVs? (There ARE Screens that use real LEDs, not the diode like EL panels called OLED or AMOLED, usually at sports or exhibitions, though Sony did demo a TV sized one called "crystal", because LED had been debased by LCD TVs)
Why are MS calling their products Holographic and Hololens when they are Stereo viewers, nothing whatsoever to do with Holographic techniques or Holograms?
Would the two down voters like to point me in the direction of software from bloatersoft that isn't full of un-needed crap, the latest 6.5GB windows ISO being ample demonstration of bits where they're not needed.
I needed the SQL client yesterday, 915MB!!!!!!!!!
I understand fanboyism, but you sycophancy is truly mind boggling.
Sycophancy? To what are you comparing this bloaty MS stuff, AC?
Does that 915MB contain just an SQL client or perhaps some extras that some may need? Windows 10 ISO takes 4GB and Server 2016 about 5 GB - what is this mythical "latest 6.5GB windows ISO"?
I've never seen a utility (or an operating system) from any vendor that didn't contain something that *I* never needed. Perhaps your whiny tone brought your downvotes.
Ram is cheap, most manufactures offer the laptops with 2gb of ram to keep the price down on low end machines and so they can also charge extra for 4/6/8gb/etc systems.... however more often than not if you work it out, its cheaper to buy the 2gb and slap in some memory on top or throw away the 2gb and fit more ram than it is to buy the machine with more memory... not always.. but more often than not.
"The inclusion of a USB 3.0 may prove more of a stumbling block than the graphical requirements. GPUs that support DirectX 12 date back to around 2014, while USB 3.0 is more recent, only becoming commonplace in the last two to three years."
You are aware that it is November in 2016? These dates almost entirely align.
>You are aware that it is November in 2016? These dates almost entirely align.
Yes, indeed ... then, you need 4 cores, a recent CPU with four cores, like i5 or i7, a Directx 12 GPU AND USB3, which mean fairly recent system ... I wanna know where you can get a i5 toaster with those specs, please.
Never trust MS' minimal system requirements ... all it probably means is, the thing "turns on", as usual....
First they came for the Clock Cycles, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a CPU.
Then they came for the Memory, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a DIMM.
Then they came for the Storage, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a disk platter.
Then they came for My Data—and there was no one left to speak for me.
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