The early reception for Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented reality headgear has been cautiously optimistic, save for one persistent bugbear: the device’s field of view. Up until Wednesday, Microsoft hadn’t shown that limitation in its promotional videos, but new footage demonstrates what it’s like to look through a HoloLens.

In addition to the usual, massive holograms that appear to fill a room, the video shows several renderings of what it’s like to look through the HoloLens hardware itself. As the camera pans up and down over models of a human heart and human bones, bits of the holograms are clipped off at the edges of a centered frame that represents the HoloLens’s field of view. The unaugmented space around that frame represents what someone would see in their peripheral vision while wearing the device.

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