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Steve Troughton-Smith Jun 9, 2023

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 was one of the early HoloLens developers invited to create apps for the platform in 2014–2015. We ultimately created HoloAnatomy, but the FOV and screen contrast/spatial resolution were always disappointing. HoloLens was true AR, but I think the Vision Pro is doing it right by being VR first and simulating AR elements through external cameras and screens. Putting the real world on a high quality Vision Pro screen seems to be way better than doing the pass-through and overlays on the HoloLens.