This is Microsoft's vision of a holographic office
HoloLens demo shows off a holographic, multimonitor setup Microsoft's Hololens is demonstrated at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto on July 11, 2016. Credit: Microsoft/IDGNS Microsoft made the biggest pitch to date for HoloLens as a business computing device on Monday during its Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto, Canada. When Arantxa Lasa Cid, a program director at the company, took the stage for a HoloLens demo, she pulled up a workspace that looked a lot like a massive, multimonitor desktop setup, complete with virtual monitors showing an Outlook calendar, email and two web browsers. It looked a lot like a traditional desktop setup, with one catch: Cid was standing in front of an empty table, wearing one of Microsoft’s augmented reality headsets. And then, with the tap of her finger, she pulled up a model of a jet engine. Microsoft’s Hololens used for jet engine training is demonstrated at the company’s Worldwide Pa...