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 Completely agree. Also, the UI toolkit that the Microsoft devs created (MRTK) was very nice to use in other VR platforms (like the Quest). Unfortunately Microsoft laid off pretty much the whole mixed reality division last January, so the Hololens is presumed dead :(

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-has-laid-off-entire-teams-behind-virtual-mixed-reality-and-hololens

Microsoft has laid off entire teams behind Virtual, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens

HoloLens, Virtual Reality, and Mixed Reality are all but dead at Microsoft.

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