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HoloLens

How you’ll use Microsoft’s HoloLens: New videos show clicking, gazing and spatial sound

Remember thinking about whether to hit the right or left mouse button when clicking on something in the early days of computing? Now… Read More

Microsoft launches HoloLens developer preorders with 7 new apps for mixed reality headset

It has been more than a year since Microsoft announced the HoloLens, and we’ve seen an impressive range of on-stage demos since then. But Microsoft has… Read More

HoloLens interface, Clicker peripheral leaked in app walkthrough documents

HoloLens development kits are going out sometime this spring, but there are still plenty of mysteries surrounding how the augmented… Read More

HoloLens in space: NASA astronaut Scott Kelly dons Microsoft’s holographic headset

Microsoft this morning posted an initial picture of NASA astronaut Scott Kelly wearing the company’s HoloLens holographic headset on the International… Read More

Microsoft shows off HoloLens-enabled ‘holographic teleportation’ and predicts the demise of 2D technology

Microsoft’s Alex Kipman showed off the most detailed demo of the HoloLens yet during a TED talk in Vancover, B.C., on… Read More

Why Microsoft, not Google, is positioned to win the market for ‘smart glasses’

While the initial rollout of Google Glass may have been a disaster, with much of the focus centering on Glassholes… Read More

NFL meets HoloLens: Here’s Microsoft’s vision for watching sports in augmented reality

Up until now, the “second-screen” experience while watching a live sports event on TV typically revolves around accessing apps like… Read More

CEO Tim Cook isn’t the only one at Apple interested in virtual reality

Tim Cook thinks virtual reality is cool, and it looks like his company does, too. “In terms of virtual reality,… Read More

Cygnus and robotic arm

Cygnus spaceship delivers HoloLens and other goodies to space station

The International Space Station’s astronauts got their Christmas presents early today, in the form of HoloLens augmented-reality headsets from Microsoft… Read More

Atlas 5 launch

It’s a first! Atlas 5 rocket sends Cygnus cargo ship (with HoloLens) to space station

After waiting out Florida’s weather for three days, United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket lofted supplies to the International Space Station… Read More

Halo on the Microsoft HoloLens runs fast and looks awesome

HoloLens project manager Varun Mani uploaded a video of himself playing Halo with the augmented reality device this past week.… Read More

Microsoft teases Xbox One streaming to the HoloLens in new set of first-person videos

The HoloLens has yet to land in developers’ hands, but Microsoft is already teasing how the tech may look when… Read More

Amazon files patent to ‘transform’ your entire living room into another reality

Amazon has shown interest in augmented reality for a while, but on Tuesday the company was awarded a set of… Read More

Microsoft brings HoloLens development stateside, lays off 60 on Israeli team

Microsoft has laid off 60 people working on the HoloLens augmented reality headset in Israel as the company concentrates development… Read More

Latest HoloLens hype video shows Microsoft’s futuristic headset being used by designers

Microsoft introduced another potential use for its HoloLens augmented reality headset on Monday, this time showing how engineers and industrial… Read More

Virtual car shopping on a HoloLens? Volvo says it’s coming next year thanks to Microsoft partnership

Volvo says I saw the future of car dealerships earlier today. I was invited to sit on a sofa in… Read More

Mysterious Magic Leap shows new mixed-reality demo, points to ‘operating system for reality’

Virtual reality may be the next big thing, with the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR and even Google Cardboard bringing… Read More

Microsoft HoloLens to launch again on December mission to International Space Station

In June, Microsoft and NASA announced a partnership to send the HoloLens to space. However, the unmanned SpaceX rocket carrying… Read More

Why this startup has an ‘unfair advantage’ making apps for Microsoft HoloLens

We’ve already seen some awesome applications for the HoloLens, from teaching a reporter how to replace a light switch to a… Read More

NASA and Microsoft team up to send HoloLens into space

Two HoloLens headsets are going to the International Space Station. NASA and Microsoft announced today that they are working together on… Read More

IDC predicts 8.4 million smart clothing shipments in 2019

The wearable device market is forecasted to nearly triple this year, driven by sub-$100 activity trackers, according to a report… Read More

Microsoft is making a Minecraft game for its HoloLens blended reality headset

Minecraft, meet HoloLens. At the big E3 video game conference today, Microsoft showed off a neat demo of a Minecraft… Read More

Reading books with HoloLens? Microsoft patent shows how it could work

A new Microsoft patent shows how a head-mounted display could transform the experience of reading books — synchronizing a virtual character’s movements… Read More

HoloLens: 5 new insights from my time with Microsoft’s holographic headset

My first experience with Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented reality headgear left me feeling hopeful about the hardware’s opportunity as a platform… Read More

Developing apps for HoloLens: Inside Microsoft’s ‘Holographic Academy’

SAN FRANCISCO – It takes a special kind of person to encourage a room full of journalists to blow up the… Read More

Microsoft Windows on the walls: How HoloLens will work at home

Microsoft gave a new demonstration of its HoloLens holographic headset at its Build conference in San Francisco today, showing how… Read More

What to expect from Microsoft’s Build developer conference this week

Microsoft has taken over San Francisco’s Moscone West convention center this week for Build, a three day extravaganza for developers… Read More

Microsoft engineer working on HoloLens augmented reality project killed in car crash

Mike Ey, a 30-year-old software engineer working on Microsoft’s HoloLens project, was killed on Saturday after another driver rear-ended him going 100 miles an… Read More

Windows holograms?! Our first encounter with Microsoft’s ambitious HoloLens project

Down in the basement of a Microsoft building this afternoon, I put on the headset and looked around. Suddenly a Minecraft-style… Read More

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