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It's priced just like Microsoft's Hololens and aimed at the same target audience that the first version of Hololens was: developers and early adopters. The ch
by GeekyBear 3y ago
It's priced just like Microsoft's Hololens and aimed at the same target audience that the first version of Hololens was: developers and early adopters.
The cheaper mass market consumer version comes later. They've been iterating for years now on something in a thick framed glasses form factor, and haven't gotten anything they think is worth shipping so far.
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/apple-glasses https://www.tomsguide.com/news/apple-glasses
- WastingMyTime89 3y agoBut HoloLens has pretty much entirely abandoned the consumer market and is now targeting the lucrative segment of professional usage where there is obvious gain to me made using AR, a segment Apple has always been mostly uninterested in.
- throwanma 3y agoJust like windows phone vs iphone?
- GeekyBear 3y agoIt always struck me as insane that Microsoft tried to target Windows Phone at general consumers and not Enterprise users.
- GeekyBear 3y agoHololens 2 attempted to target factory workers, but given that Microsoft has laid off the Hololens team, it looks like they have given up. >Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: a $3,500 mixed reality headset for the factory, not the living room https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/24/18235460/microsoft-hololens-2-price-specs-mixed-reality-ar-vr-business-work-features-mwc-2019 https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/24/18235460/microsoft-holole... > Microsoft has laid off entire teams behind Virtual, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-has-laid-off-entire-teams-behind-virtual-mixed-reality-and-hololens https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-has-laid-... I'm sure Apple's habit of iterating on and improving a new platform year after year without giving up would have served them better.