Microsoft has announced Actiongram for HoloLens, a fun to play with applications which bring your living room to life with zombies, dinosaurs and other characters. Developers can take benefits of the opportunity and buy HoloLens Development Edition, which begins shipping this month.
Microsoft HoloLens is getting better with each new announcement and new apps. Actiongram is a new application for the augmented reality headset which projects real life characters to users living space, including zombies, dinosaurs, goats, horses, unicorns, aliens and many other 3D holographic characters that would play around your house, Wired reported.
HoloLens Actiongram will act as a 3D animated storytelling app. Apart from adding characters to a user's surroundings, it can be used to produce amazing visual effects which will be available as pre-defined libraries. Users would simply select the 3D models or visual effects through HoloLens toolbox and deploy those using gestures. Gestures can also be used for positioning of characters and objects among other commands.
According to Microsoft's Kudo Tsunoda, Actiongram enables users to create holographic videos and advanced visual effects that would otherwise take expensive software and years of experience. Actiongram was developed by a team of total five members, which took six months in the making.
The new HoloLens app was created as an example so that other developers can also create custom holographic tools according to their choice. Microsoft uploaded multiple videos on the YouTube to show how Microsoft HoloLens is going to look like with these new features.
The latest HoloLens app is coming to Windows Store this summer, but users would have to get a HoloLens unit in order to use it. Developers from Canada and the USA can apply to Microsoft's website to get the $3,000 (£2,130) HoloLens Development Edition, which start shipping from 30th of this month.
For those who only want to get the piece of entertainment, wait till more HoloLens Actiongram and other apps come fully furnished in Microsoft's augmented reality headset, which is going to rival its virtual reality counterparts like HTC Vive, Occulus Rift and Samsung Gear VR. Gear VR only costs $99 compared to the $599 Rift so pricing is surely going to be a formidable success factor.
This video uploaded on official channel Microsoft HoloLens takes a glimpse at Actiongram awesomeness.