There he is, in my basement, James “Titanic” Cameron, undersea explorer and digital-filmmaker extraordinaire.
Oh no, no. He’s not on my laptop screen. Resembling something between a Star Wars holo-projection and a Macy’s window display, he’s standing in front of my face on a virtual conference stage. When he turns around you can see the shine of his silver hair and the back of his black boots.
I should’ve seen him coming. Microsoft Corp. MSFT -0.58% sent me a box the size of a freight train. Inside was a virtual-reality headset from HP (along with a laptop to power it) and Microsoft’s own augmented-reality (aka mixed-reality) HoloLens 2 goggles. All so I could experience what the company calls “holoportation” at its Ignite conference, held virtually on Tuesday. Instead of a boring-old webcast, Alex Kipman, Microsoft’s AI and mixed-reality technical fellow, appeared with other guests, including Mr. Cameron, as 3-D holograms.
Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/