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WISH YOU HAD a bigger screen to watch films on? Or maybe some more photos of your loved ones hanging on the walls of your house? Want a dog, but you don’t have the time to look after one?
Microsoft’s latest foray into the emerging world of augmented reality tech could tackle all of these problems.
At a talk at the recent Build 2015, audience members were able to see a glimpse of what it’s like to use the company’s HoloLens device without putting on a pair.
While a Microsoft employee sauntered around the stage, a special camera was hooked up to show what he was seeing through the glasses.
While Facebook’s Oculus Rift has been mainly geared towards gaming, with few practical users in the home demonstrated, Microsoft’s latest offering (or at least, the latest device its showing-off that might never be sold to the public in its current form) has sparked more of a consumer interest – Quartz notes how users who watch the video can almost see the appeal in owning a Hololens.
However, the video above gives audience members a somewhat accurate but misleading idea of what its like to wear and use a Hololens. Critics have complained of a narrow ‘letterbox’ through with you can see the holograms, as Cade Metz from Wired explains:
When you wear the device—as opposed to viewing the holograms via a movie camera equipped with very different hardware—your “field of view” is significantly smaller. You only see holograms in a slim area in front of your eyes—an area that spans about 35 to 40 degrees horizontally, according to [one analyst].
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Drugs are never going to go away just like people’s curiosity to try them.legalise regulate and tax it’s that simple.you go to any A&E last night I’d doubt many were their because of drugs but I’d say 90% from alcohol,it’s time people woke up
@Alan b..: So we should just make everything legal because people will do it anyway, I’m going to drive my car at 200kph down the M4 because I am curious, therefore it should be legal.
You’re risking the lives of others doing that, you’re more than welcome to try drive at that speed on a closed track though. And that is legal.
Nah that’s not curiosity thats stupidity
@Alan b..: Oh I forgot drug abuse only affects the individual.
Professional race drivers would beg to differ. I’d rate comparing risking potentially dozens of lives by driving recklessly on a public road to a persons free will to risk their own health pretty stupid though
That’s the point of decriminalization, to encourage treatment and minimise the consumer base, since 40 years of aggressive policing has had little or no effect, other than congesting our court and prison systems with nonviolent offenders
What about alcohol abuse?
Drugs lead to junkies turning inner city Dublin into a crime infested anti social area.
If that isn’t an example of something that affects everybody, I don’t know what is.
What a stupid comparison in fairness
You don’t see a and e full of drug users because so few people use them compared to alcohol. Legalise drugs and you’ll create the same problems as alcohol causes. Simple really
Alan Y. Hsu Drugs are illegal now so Dublin should be free of drugs right? No crime or anti social behaviour at all. Thank god they’re illegal and people don’t have access to them
And what about temple bar on Saturday night after drinking alcohol or any Main Street in the country
@Imnotrodten: That is a stupid argument. If you take drugs you are causing possible harm to yourself. If you drive like a loony at 200kph you are causing possible harm to others.
@Leitrim303: Leitrim, there are no consequences from drug use for the children or family of the user.
@Alan b..: Whataboutery?
Alan b.. alcohol is legal and marketed,and is much more harmful and dangerous than the most popular recreational drug, so what about alcohol? If it is widely available to the population, why not other mind altering substances? Side note; most people’s introduction to chemical party drugs like speed, ecstasy and mdma will be when they are drunk and succeptible, many will admit that they wouldn’t have tried drugs if they hadn’t been drunk when offered.
Totally agree with you
The junkies tend to end up in the morgue as opposed to A&E.
The counter that “we should just make everything legal” if we argue for drug legality, is a nice soundbite but so devoid of logic it is ridiculous.
The whole purpose of drug prohibition is one of harm reduction which has failed miserably. We now need to look at this policy and revise it to minimise harms from drugs the most obvious start to this is to accept that taking mind altering substances is part of the human condition so we need to regulate all drugs and educate potential users of their harms and benefits.
“Peakin said these statistics can be taken with a pinch of salt and says the increased detection rate is due to an increase in demand for drugs”.
I’d imagine there is no increase in demand for drugs. It will always be massive, but there is an increase demand for getting drugs that you can trust. I used to buy ecstasy & LSD online, on the Silk Road website that got shut down by the FBI. On it, you could read reviews of the product left by other customers, and some people went to the trouble of getting lab tests done so you’d know the quality of the drugs. It is actually safer than buying them on the street. That, in my opinion, is the reason for the increase in people buying drugs online; good drugs, at a lower price, delivered to your door. It actually makes drug taking way safer, but they’re not going to tell us that.
Spot on. It’s basic economics at work. There is increased demand for cheaper, higher quality, lab-tested drugs sourced online, which circumvents the violent criminal system. It’s classic market disruption and a demonstration of how high demand will *always* ensure innovation in supply. Drug laws are fairly static, drug entrepreneurs are dynamic innovators – it’s no match.
Posted to their mates living off the state over here to sell..
“Living off the state”… I guess you mean politicians….please elaborate.
Public servants
They must have thousands of “mates” given the quantity coming through. Obviously they are selling for profit
Mmmmm Drugs from Nigeria. Probably for the many princes we have living here. Be great if these drug dealers could be deported back to their homeland.
I know plenary of lads who’ve bought drugs online and funnily enough they aren’t Nigerian they are Irish I know the shock.
@Slippy: Nigerian or other countries who do enjoy “freedom of movement” should be removed if upholding the laws are too much trouble for them!
Just because the drugs were sourced from Nigeria doesn’t mean the local dealer is Nigerian. That’s like saying all local merchants of iPhones must be Chinese.
The best pills come from the Netherlands
I have countless friends who have ordered drugs online and it seems like 100% success rate. It has become huge the last few years.
David out of curiosity what sites did they order from
The disturbing aspect is that the pictures shown with the cannabis stash were from Revenue and not the Gardai. Revenue can’t tax it so it should be a criminal matter to the Gardai. It shows you the real reason why these drugs are illegal.
Exactly. Solution: Make it taxable.
Love the way stats can be tweaked to suit the narrative. Yes there has been an increase in seizures but there has also been an increase in users of cannabis in Ireland. As such it is still estimated that 80% to 90% of drugs still get through the system.
As evidenced by the lack of a drought when €37 million worth of cannabis was recently seized. Not even a dent to supply.
If guards are concerned about people buying tampered with canabis they should be loudly advocating for canabis legalization.
Pretty simple.
@Donald Drumpf: I bet they have fun with chalk statues of religious figures lol.
What are the stats for abortion pill seizures? In terms of quantity please I never take official “values” for seizures with other than a shovelful of NaCl. Knowing as I do that these figures are quite figuratively pulled from the David Drumm school of nether region accounting..
The biggest thing that I don’t get in the post is seed packets, I don’t know why and it is always from the UK although I expected it once when I ordered a packet of Eupatorium canabinum as some people can be thick…
But the Royal Mail has a reputation of lost mail in order to auction it off?
So using the Royal Mail to send drugs with would be risky as it would be gone before anyone could inspect them lol.
Trust nothing to the Royal Mail.. Use couriers whenever ordering something from the UK. It’s been decades since the RM became a kleptocratic org.
@John O’Driscoll: Too bloody true….
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