StyM
12-08-2016, 08:33 AM
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/winhec-microsoft-intel-project-alloy-project-evo,33156.html
At WinHEC, Microsoft (and by proxy, Intel) made a number of announcements, many of them concerning their collaborative work on virtual reality (or "merged reality"). So begins the next chapter of Wintel VR.
However, the companies offered precious little in the way of hard details, which makes interpreting all of it a tricky task. Here?s how to begin to understand it: They did not announce Things; they announced Ideas.
Even one item about which we got some details--that Windows 10 will support x86 emulation on Qualcomm chips--is more of an idea than anything else. But when it comes to ?Project Evo,? Project Alloy, and an unnamed effort to enable inexpensive VR HMDs, Microsoft was all about ideas.
The problem with Ideas versus Things is that the former is often ill-defined, and that is very much the case at WinHEC.
At WinHEC, Microsoft (and by proxy, Intel) made a number of announcements, many of them concerning their collaborative work on virtual reality (or "merged reality"). So begins the next chapter of Wintel VR.
However, the companies offered precious little in the way of hard details, which makes interpreting all of it a tricky task. Here?s how to begin to understand it: They did not announce Things; they announced Ideas.
Even one item about which we got some details--that Windows 10 will support x86 emulation on Qualcomm chips--is more of an idea than anything else. But when it comes to ?Project Evo,? Project Alloy, and an unnamed effort to enable inexpensive VR HMDs, Microsoft was all about ideas.
The problem with Ideas versus Things is that the former is often ill-defined, and that is very much the case at WinHEC.