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		rbanffy on Jan 22, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles Magic is not possible. Whatever the HPU does is still constrained by physics. They can't explain away the engineering problem with an invented new name for a device we know nothing about except that it defies the laws of physics WRT computation.

benjaminl on Jan 22, 2015 [–]

What we do know is that fixed function ASICs can be can be 10s to 100s of times more power efficient than general purpose (Von Newman) computing.

So noting they have described defies the laws of physics.

tripzilch on Jan 22, 2015 | [–]

So, where would the terabytes per second come from? ... on a head-mounted device?

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