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Microsoft Announces HoloLens 2 Mixed Reality Headset For $3,500 (theverge.com)
Artem S. Tashkinov writes: Hailed as a third wave of computing, Microsoft has made the HoloLens 2 mixed-reality headset available for preorder for a staggering $3,500 and it's expected to be shipped later this year. It will be sold only to enterprise customers. Compared to the first generation HoloLens, the second version is better in almost every important way: it's more comfortable to wear, it offers a much wider field of view, it contains powerful recognition software that can detect real world physical objects and allow you to seamlessly interact with them using hand and finger gestures. It features new components like the Azure Kinect sensor, SnapDragon 850 SoC, eye-tracking sensors, an entirely different display system with 2K resolution for each eye, a couple of speakers, and an 8-megapixel front-facing camera for video conferencing. It's also capable of full 6 degrees of tracking, and it also uses USB-C to charge.
They said double the field of view for the new model - I also tried the original and it was a bit too limited. I think 2x might be enough improvement to be decent, really hoping I can try one of these out at some point.
At the price they are charging they definitely will be more for enterprise or other serious applications, and that's probably a good thing in terms of taking over a niche they can build on. Maybe someday a consumer model...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
They would still be good enough to take off if they also weren't insanely expensive
Haha, for those of us old enough to remember the first laptops costing $8k 25 years ago $3.5K in 2019 doesn't seem that insane.
Jesus, give it another year or two and with Apple's new innovations in pricing technology a top of the line iPhone will probably cost $3.5k.