Users can even get up and walk around in a 120-degree viewing angle before the image becomes distorted, according to a report from WinBeta. The app apparently features support for two-handed gestures, to make it easy to enter and exit conversations without needing to use an input device. The footage released by Valorem is really quite remarkable, depicting two people having a conversation in the same room, despite the fact that one is in Germany and the other is in the United States.
While wearing the headset, you’ll see the person that you’re chatting with in your environment as a hologram. It’s somewhere between Skype and the hologram-based communication system Emperor Palpatine uses in The Empire Strikes Back. HoloBeam uses a stereoscopic camera to capture a 3D image of a person and beam it into someone else’s home via the HoloLens headset. Last week, the Kansas City, Missouri-based Valorem released a video of an impressive chat app called HoloBeam.
In March, Microsoft started shipping HoloLens development kits, and now we’re starting to see some of the first projects developed with the hardware’s unique capabilities in mind.