Project Ideas

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Inspiration:

• Nice intro to HoloLens videos (limitations and technical)
• NFL on your coffee table
• Volvo cars + hololens
• ActionGrams (figures to put in your scene and interact with)
• Wearable Holograms
• Skype with HoloLens
• Holoportation
• A nice list of the best vive apps and ratings

Ideas from HoloLens Community:

• Most popular ideas

Other Ideas:

• 3D tour of building
• Minority report like organization system using hololens
• Projecting piano notes on a piano to learn how to play

• Painting, 3D sculpting, Architectural drawing with VR. Along the lines of Tilt Brush:

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnqFdSa5p7w
  • (using Leap) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LVVpl9tCNE

• Data Visualization in Virtual Reality (exploring visualization techniques in 3D)

  • Study of 2D v/s 3D data viz
  • Interaction techniques (Data Selection, Brushing and linking)

• Interior Decorating/Design

  • Visualize floor plans, furniture, appliances
  • Preconstruction demos

• Contextual help for well defined mechanical tasks, eg. Car Repair, Motherboard Assembly

  • Steps to change oil
  • Steps to assemble CPU/Memory/GPU etc.

• Historical/heritage site preservation. Digital virtual tours, augmented reality tours of tourist sites.

  • Complete ruined buildings
  • Visualize people of the time/era walking around (Think roman legionaries and members of the senate)
  • Interact with characters to learn more about the space.

• Health related App.

  • VR/AR Fitness, yoga instructor, cycling/running app
  • WiiFit for VR/AR?
  • Realtime positive feedback for exercise (HR monitor + AR game?)

• Medical VR App

  • Visualizing Anatomy, historically a key element to advances in medicine. Anatomy is inherently 3D, visualize it in AR
  • Mock VR Surgery? http://www.surgeonsim.com/
  • Measuring height, length, bmi

• Educational VR/AR App

  • Witness some defining historical moments as if you were there (space shuttle launch, moon landing, first flight, famous speeches etc.)
  • Virtual classroom
  • Visualize Classical Physics problems (friction, rolling, F = ma) with physical props and AR
  • Visualize molecules and chemical reactions
  • Visualize biological process, be able to zoom inside cells and observe things like DNA walkers, protein synthesis, cell duplication etc.

• Games

  • Holographic chess (like wizard’s chess in Harry Potter)
  • Games with holographic monsters (think Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon, etc)
  • Holographic pictionary (instead of drawing pictures in 2D draw them in 3D)
  • Holographic paintball (virtual paint, have virtual paint stick to real life walls, etc.)

• Accessible Technology

  • MS HoloLens applications for Inattention and Attention Deficit.

    Below are three totally separate HoloLens projects, all tied to the same theme of improving function and quality of life for people with low visual attention, visual inattention or organizational inattention.

  • “Seeing the future”: (this is by far the most advanced and open-ended of the three projects)

    Using the built-in camera, analyze scenes as viewed by the user. The objective of this application is to alert users (especially those with visual inattention) to dangers in the regions in which they cannot process information, or cannot see (for the general user, this may be in the peripheral view). This could help alert user to dangers in the non-attended region (e.g, coming cars when crossing the street, on-coming flying baseball, possible bicycle collision, etc).

  • “Organizational tool using spacial organization and attention redirection”:

    In severe cases of organizational inattention, for example in inattentive type ADHD or recovering stroke patients, routines to assist with organization have provided both coping and therapeutic impact. Typically, caregivers have to direct individuals through the routines to ensure follow-through. We propose creating a HoloLens app to keep track of one's documents, books, assignments, etc. in a virtual HoloLens workspace where the number of distractions can be more limited.

  • “SmartLens”:

    The incidence of visual field loss worldwide is approximated to be 3.0% to 3.5% for persons aged 16 to 60 years and 13.0% for those older than 65 years. The most common causes of visual field loss are glaucoma, retinal disorders, cataracts and stroke. An advancement to the synthetic revisualization of objects in a user's peripheral vision can improve quality of life and safety. The objective of this HoloLens application is to provide users a way of bringing objects from their peripheral vision into their visual field (for instance, by motioning hands and grasping objects to indicate selection) and a method of visualizing the objects virtually in the user's visual field enabling magnification and closer inspection of the object.

  • Anat Caspi is willing to meet with teams to address any questions/concerns of those considering these projects.

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