{"id":18066,"date":"2019-05-06T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/this-is-the-apollo-11-hololens-demo-that-microsoft-hoped-to-show-at-build\/"},"modified":"2019-05-06T18:47:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T10:47:00","slug":"this-is-the-apollo-11-hololens-demo-that-microsoft-hoped-to-show-at-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/this-is-the-apollo-11-hololens-demo-that-microsoft-hoped-to-show-at-build\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the Apollo 11 HoloLens demo that Microsoft hoped to show at Build"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_496741\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-496741\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-496741 size-full-width\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC09050-630x418.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC09050-630x418.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC09050-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC09050-1260x836.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-496741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Science journalist Andrew Chaikin and Industrial Light and Magic chief creative offer John Knoll try unsuccessfully to get the demo off the ground at Build. (GeekWire Photo \/ Todd Bishop)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The opening demo at Microsoft\u2019s Build conference was supposed to be a real showstopper, and ultimately it did stop the show \u2014 but not in the way that Microsoft, Epic Games and Industrial Light and Magic had hoped.<\/p>\n<p>An unspecified technical glitch kept Industrial Light and Magic chief creative officer John Knoll and science journalist Andrew Chaikin from using the HoloLens 2 headsets to recreate the Apollo 11 moon landing in mixed reality.<\/p>\n<p>As Chaikin said before walking off the stage, \u201cIt seems that doing a live demo is actually harder than landing on the moon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But a video of their rehearsal has now surfaced online, thanks to Variety, which had been tracking the plans for the demo and prepared a giant article with the full backstory on how the demo came to be. The collaboration is part of a partnership between Microsoft and Epic Games, marking a truce between the companies.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Apollo 11 HoloLens 2 Demo | Microsoft Build 2019 | Unreal Engine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r0ubiU3PRHw?start=138&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll had worked out well during multiple rehearsals over the last few days,\u201d Variety\u2019s Janko Roettgers wrote. \u201cBut when Knoll and science journalist and \u2018Man on the Moon\u2019 author Andrew Chaikin were set to go on stage on Monday, the demo just didn\u2019t run. Microsoft stalled by extending its pre-show ImagineCup competition until the show\u2019s moderator couldn\u2019t think of any more questions to ask. Then Knoll and Chaikin went on stage, giving it one more go \u2014 and the mixed-reality overlays simply refused to appear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If the demo had worked as planned, HoloLens users (and those who were watching the display screens at the Microsoft Build conference) would have seen virtual models of the Saturn V rocket, plus its Apollo capsule and lunar module, float and spin around the stage as Chaikin and Knoll narrated each stage of the 1969 moon mission. At the climax, a patch of simulated lunar terrain blossomed on stage, and a virtual Neil Armstrong climbed down the lunar module\u2019s ladder to take his \u201cone small step.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch the runthrough video above to see how it would have unfolded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science journalist Andrew Chaikin and Industrial Light and Magic chief creative offer John Knoll try unsuccessfully to get the demo off the ground at Build. (GeekWire Photo \/ Todd Bishop) The opening demo at Microsoft\u2019s Build conference was supposed to be a real showstopper, and ultimately it did stop the show \u2014 but not in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1758,5025,5026,21],"class_list":["post-18066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-apollo-11","tag-hololens","tag-hololens-2","tag-space"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}