gizmodo.com: Though they’re often being lumped together, Microsoft’s HoloLens headset is a very different beast to the Oculus Rift. Whereas the Rift wants to transport you to a whole other virtual reality world, Microsoft’s augmented reality driven HoloLens wants to invade your real world. And that gives it a far wider potential for educational application.
To hammer home the point, Microsoft’s got the Case Western Reserve University acting as evangelists for its headset, with the university’s key thinkers talking up how, particularly for medical students, HoloLens could be a revelatory learning tool. While the resultant video is clearly using pre-rendered imagery, the thought of being able to manipulate an anatomically accurate digital human body in a 3D space (right down to peeling away layers of skin and muscle to expose the skeleton through the headset’s visor) is the sort of sci-fi study aid that would make even Star Trek’s Bones green with envy.