[HN Gopher] Microsoft Is Discontinuing HoloLens 2, with No Repla...
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       Microsoft Is Discontinuing HoloLens 2, with No Replacement
        
       Author : mfiguiere
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2024-10-01 22:12 UTC (48 minutes ago)
        
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       | bbor wrote:
       | Wow, that's tragic. The us military is clearly screwed as well --
       | no idea how they'll try to convince the people running that
       | contract that they'll move groundbreaking tech forward just for
       | the military but don't see a need to put other resources into it.
       | I guess maybe the difference is that the current tech is good
       | enough for military usage, where budgets are high and a HUD could
       | be a literal lifesaver?
       | 
       | Throwback to this quip from 2015, that made me so damn hopeful
       | and excited at the time: "HoloLens is 5 years away from
       | consumer's hands" https://stevivor.com/news/microsoft-suggests-
       | that-hololens-i...
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       | Rest in peace my chunky friend, may you be revered/giggled-at in
       | museums of computing for centuries to come. Clearly, you were
       | born before your time.
       | 
       | Props to Meta for bullying a trillion-dollar corporation out of
       | an entire market segment just by touting a prototype! I think
       | that proves just how amazing of a prototype Orion is, $10,000
       | price tag or no. I would give Apple some credit too, but AFAICT
       | Apple Vision has been a HoloLens-style disappointment so far.
        
         | paxys wrote:
         | Let's be real there was never any real military application for
         | these headsets. The contract was secured via standard corporate
         | lobbying/grift, much like the rest of the Pentagon's
         | procurement process.
        
           | XorNot wrote:
           | The military has been pursuing AR technology for a long time,
           | and will continue to do so in the future.
           | 
           | There's _plenty_ of application for AR, provided it can be
           | made to work well for practical command or battlefield
           | applications: R &D is ultimately expensive, and a contract
           | from the military would've been for the supply and testing of
           | it in this application.
           | 
           | (i.e. to properly test such a thing, you've still got to pay
           | someone to build the sort of software and interfaces you
           | think you might need before you can even put a soldier in the
           | field to trial it).
        
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