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How accessible is Hololens
Hallo everyone,
I am a freshman student Industrial Design in The Netherlands. Also I'm visually impaired. I am blind in one eye and have a vision of approximately three procent in the other. You can probably imagine that doing such a visually intense study is complicated.
I am, however, able to do most of the required work thanks to digital tools such as CAD designing and realy all kinds of programs.
I read here and there about the Hololens and thought that it could be a great tool to litteraly add a extra demension to my mainly digital way of working. But I have no indication of how usable it would be for someone like me.
Since I don't have $3.000 to spend on something of wich I am not sure will work for me. And neither am I a developer. I wanted to ask the community about a few things. For instance, I usually get really close to things to see them better. My Phone, my computer screen and other tings. I was wondering how close you can get to the interface.
How close can you get before the hologram dissapears?
Can you put the start screen on a wall and walk towards it or can you get it closer to your face?
Are there even accessibility tools like on the regular windows?
And if anayone has tried a CAD application...
How usefull is the hologram and how editable is it?
Thanks in advance,
Robert
Answers
HoloLens holograms break down at 0.85 meters or less that's why we change the values in the Unity player to minus 0.5 for the focal points. You cannot buy a real device until 2017 for European users. The emulator code could be run on a large high definition Ultra high 44k display.
This however wont solve your problems with sight correction glasses because each problem is unique.
the field of vision is limited and will soon curve and distortion occurs when you get close basically it is an arms length device