Microsoft on Wednesday announced Windows Holographic, a feature in Windows 10 that will let users create their own holograms and print them out on 3D printers.
Every Windows 10 device has holographic APIs enabled, Microsoft's Alex Kipman said. Windows 10 holograms are Windows Universal Apps.
Users need the Microsoft HoloLens headset, which Kipman described as "the first fully untethered computer."
It has advanced sensors to capture information, high-definition holographic lenses, and spatial sound so users can hear holograms behind them.
The HoloLens has a built-in high-end CPU and a high-end graphics processing unit, but "to handle all the processing required, we had to go beyond the traditional CPU and GPU so we invented a third processor -- a holographic processing unit," Kipman said.
