Microsoft: Windows Holographic’s ‘pixie dust’ turns your family room into a game

Microsoft wants to put a computer on your face.

During its Windows 10 event today in Redmond, Wash., Microsoft revealed the HoloLens augmented-reality headset and the Windows Holographic platform. The face-mounted computer is a wireless Windows 10 device that enables people to see virtual “holograms” in a 3D space, and Microsoft announced that games will benefit from the new device’s capabilities. The company went on to say that this is “the next PC,” which is something that Facebook is claiming about the Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset that its subsidiary Oculus VR is developing.