Microsoft Launches HoloLens Emulator, No Headset Required (venturebeat.com)

An anonymous reader writes: As promised, Microsoft started shipping its $3,000 HoloLens development kits today. In addition to sharing that bots are coming to the new platform, the company also released a HoloLens emulator, which lets developers test holographic apps on their PC without the need for a physical HoloLens. You can download the emulator now directly from here. Thinking about building a holographic app? HoloToolkit on GitHub is a collection of scripts and components that may help accelerate your development.

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Re:New business model?

[Freshly Exhumed]

This is the result of there being a big Microsoft developer conference going on. As the magicians on stage perform each trick, the press gushes over it, again and again. Submitters here at /. can't stop themselves from sending in each one of them separately, it seems.

Re:New business model?FTFY

[zlives]

and by people do you mean ms Tay :)

Re:Download directly?

[Darinbob]

The link points to an EXE file, that's what hovering my mouse of the link says. I don't care if it's from Microsoft as they are not above suspicion. It should point to the page instead, and the page should have a SHA256 or MD5 sum on the executables contents. We spend so much time to try and teach the parents and grandparents to always check what a link points to and never download an executable and then Slashdot goes and undermines this.

Never download an EXE file in a link from an untrusted source people!

And you can't be too paranoid with Microsoft, better to wait until others install it and determine if it's not actually an advertisement for Windows 10.

The Microsoft slashdot ..

[khz6955]

Microsoft gets 6 free articles on the main page. Is this what slashdot is reduced to, shilling for the MICROS~1 organization?

Re:The Microsoft slashdot ..

[tacroy]

It was their giant developers conference... why would you not expect a bunch of news to come out of it?

Re:New business model?FTFY

[Coren22]

My response to these kinds of comments is always "if you want another story on the front page, submit it". There is never a reason to complain about lack of content on a user content driven site.