This critique may be trivial in the long run: once you fit your HoloLens, you don't need to change anything except the tightness. It reminds me of getting fitted for snow skis – it takes precision. It's one of those things I could probably tinker with for 10 minutes to get it 'just right'. Due to time and the newness of the technology, figuring out how it should fit on your head the first time is not at all obvious. This finding brings me back to my point about fitting the HoloLens. However, as a demonstration of how holograms and the real-world can create a sensational gaming experience it totally works. Granted, due to the game's simplicity, I am not sure you would get _hour_s of enjoyment out of it. All I know was playing Project X-ray is fantastic. Now, I cannot be 100% certain if anything was vastly different with the hardware (which is still being tweaked) or it was just lined up right. In fact, this was the most fun I had with HoloLens since January.

This time, my exposure to HoloLens was the latter: it worked and felt seamless.

If fitted just right though, it is a great. If it is off slightly, your experience will be less enjoyable. One thing I can say about HoloLens: it is very finicky as to positioning. In the game, you can hear in the room when an enemy was coming, much like how surround-sound speakers work for movie theaters. HoloLens has two speakers placed above the ears, and the spatial machinery works extremely well. He kind of looks like a cross between GLaDOS and the Ghosts in Destiny.įinally, the sound, as always, was great. There is also a helpful AI in the form of a robot who guides you through the process, giving you hints for success. The game is merely revealing this to you in real-time. Mind you, this is all done on the fly since the HoloLens already creates the wireframe for spatial reasons. Firing your railgun takes them out and puts a hole in your domicile. This weapon tells HoloLens to create a wireframe of the walls in your space, and you can see those bad guy scorpions through the wall for a short duration (they also slow down like bullet-time). Speaking of x-rays, the reasons the game is called that is because you can x-ray your room. It feels very much like a traditional first-person shooter, except for the part about floating 3D holograms in your bedroom. Both of these actions are controlled with an Xbox One wireless controller so that your gaze through the HoloLens is your targeting reticle but your fingers to the work. In response, you as the player have two options: fire back and slow down time/x-ray the room.

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