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Microsoft signs $480 million HoloLens contract with U.S. military to ‘increase lethality’

sudshr47 November 29, 2018

Microsoft just won a $480 million contract with the U.S. military.

The Redmond, Washington based tech giant will be providing prototypes of its augmented reality headset, HoloLens, for the Army to use in combat missions and in training.

While the U.S. Army already uses Microsoft’s HoloLens devices in training, this latest development would bring the headsets onto the battleground and into live combat. The terms of the contract could see the U.S. military deploying 100,000 of the company’s AR headsets.

The contract is part of a military program called HUD 3.0, for “heads up device.” Also known as the Integrated Visual Augmentation System, the government’s description of the program states its purpose is to “increase lethality by enhancing the ability to detect, decide and engage before the enemy.” Read more…

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Microsoft wins $480M military contract to outfit soldiers with HoloLens AR tech

sudshr47 November 29, 2018

Microsoft is readying its HoloLens augmented reality tech for combat. The company just won a $480 million military contract with the U.S. government to bring AR headset tech into the weapon repertoires of American soldiers. The two-year contract may result in follow-on orders of more than 100,000 headsets according to documentation describing the bidding process. […]

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How Magic Leap compares to Microsoft HoloLens

sudshr47 September 19, 2018

I first tried out Microsoft HoloLens a few years ago, a few months before its launch as a developer tool, and came away with similar impressions that many tech journalists had at the time: the tech was intriguing and impressive in some ways, but its limited field of view diminished the experience considerably.

I’ve used HoloLens a few times since then at demos and events, and although there have been improvements, they haven’t changed fundamental experience — or its limitations.

Magic Leap, which launched its developer hardware in August, provoked similar reactions. Although the product is different from HoloLens in many ways — it’s more steampunk goggles than futuristic visor, and you need to carry around a small hockey-puck computer to make it work — most people who had hands-on time with the device had similar observations: Here was a very promising augmented-reality experience that also suffers from field-of-view limitations and a lack of compelling software (although the latter criticism may have changed on Wednesday, with the release of a Magic Leap version of Angry Birds Read more…

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Microsoft is putting HoloLens to work with new Dynamics 365 applications

sudshr47 September 18, 2018

Microsoft HoloLens mixed reality glasses have always been interesting technology, but it’s never been clear how the company would move from novelty device to actual viable business use cases. Today, it made a move toward the latter, announcing a couple of applications designed to put the HoloLens to work in Dynamics 365, giving it a […]

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This AR experience lets you interrogate hologram travelers like a customs officer

sudshr47 August 31, 2018

The interactive AR documentary Terminal 3 turns viewers into customs officers at an airport terminal, where they interrogate the holograms of people who appear to be Muslim to decide whether they will let them into the country. The augmented reality …

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HoloLens 2 will reportedly address the biggest criticism of the first model

sudshr47 June 13, 2018

Back in 2016 Microsoft entered the augmented-reality game with HoloLens, a headset that delivered a true mixed reality, combining the real world with virtual images on a transparent display.
Developers and early adopters quickly realized that, while …

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HoloLens acts as eyes for blind users and guides them with audio prompts

sudshr47 May 29, 2018

Microsoft’s HoloLens has an impressive ability to quickly sense its surroundings, but limiting it to displaying emails or game characters on them would show a lack of creativity. New research shows that it works quite well as a visual prosthesis for the vision impaired, not relaying actual visual data but guiding them in real time with audio cues and instructions.

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HoloLens’ worst enemy is still itself

sudshr47 May 8, 2018

Two years ago at its Build developer conference, Microsoft unveiled HoloLens, a futuristic holographic headset it said would usher in future of computing: A “mixed reality” where the virtual blurs into the real world.
HoloLens looked extremely promis…

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Microsoft’s new Remote Assist app will make HoloLens a less lonely experience

sudshr47 May 7, 2018

Microsoft’s HoloLens just got a whole lot more useful.

At Build 2018, Microsoft announced a new Remote Assist app that lets users connect with remote experts in mixed reality. In other words, HoloLens is now more collaborative.

With Remote Assist, Microsoft wants workers to be able to solve problems quicker together, even if they’re not physically in the same location.

For example, HoloLens users will be able to share photos, video chat, and even annotate what they’re seeing with remote experts, and vice versa. Remote users don’t need to use a HoloLens to collaborate; they can use laptops, tablets, PCs, phones — doesn’t matter. Read more…

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Microsoft introduces a pair of new enterprise apps for HoloLens

sudshr47 May 7, 2018

Today at Microsoft’s BUILD keynote, AR and VR were definitely a sideshow, but the company did have some announcements related to enterprise apps on the HoloLens. The company detailed two new apps, Remote Assist and Layout which will be coming May 22. The new Remote Assist app from Microsoft is the company’s realization of a […]

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Microsoft’s HoloLens is now available to rent

sudshr47 February 14, 2018

Microsoft has spent much of the past couple of years arguing its vision of an augmented reality future with the HoloLens. Now, it’s realizing that for potential buyers of the company’s enterprise-focused Commercial Suite edition, there’s some desire to try it out before they break out the corporate card.
Until now, the best way for interested companies to see whether… Read More