Once again, Microsoft gets forgotten while everybody is comparing Apple Vision Pro to Meta Quest. In reality, Hololens is the only product in the world even in the same ballpark of what Apple is doing. It also starts at $3,500. It also brings Microsoft's existing app and content ecosystem into augmented reality, and tries to make it work in a spatial environment with eye and hand tracking. MS bet on passthrough display tech, where Apple brute-forced AR with cameras and silicon prowess

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@stroughtonsmith I’m finally getting excited about VR/AR. I Wonder how many years it’ll take until it’ll just be a regular pair of glasses. 10? 20?
@eierund I would be optimistic and say 5

@stroughtonsmith wow! I would absolutely LOVE that so I’m gonna choose to be optimistic as well. ;)

Until then I’ll just buy this 1st gen monstrosity just cause I’m excited about it. Yolo.

@stroughtonsmith do you still stand by this after all we’ve seen now? I honestly think we are way further out.
@eierund I don't think we’re further out. I think the axes along which Vision Pro struggles are not relevant to a device without displays or passthrough cameras. Get the OS to run on a Watch SoC, miniaturize the sensors into a glasses frame, and solve for eyeball laser projector
@stroughtonsmith I love your optimism and hope you’re right. Let’s touch base again in 5 years :)