BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨💻I have posted multiple times on the futility of VR head mounted devices beyond VERY niche use cases. Latest news - death knell has been sounded for Microsoft's HoloLens 2 headset. Related IVAS program with the US Army seems destined to flame out. https://africa.businessinsider.com/news/microsoft-lost-billions-of-dollars-on-hololens-and-its-huge-ivas-military-contract-is/symf9vy #AR #VR #Hololens #IVAS #usarmy #DoD
I wrote about this in 2018! https://www.brentdoncaster.com/post/vr-is-destined-to-fail
Microsoft lost billions of dollars on HoloLens, and its huge IVAS military contract is in trouble
Microsoft lost billions of dollars on its HoloLens mixed-reality project, and the companys involvement in a related contract with the US Army is in doubt, according to people familiar with the situation