HoloLens is one of Microsoft's most important new products, but it will soon not be the only holographic experience.
Microsoft opens up its holographic platform Windows 10 and to other manufacturers. In other words, we'll soon be seeing HoloLens clones popping up everywhere.
While the holographic platform does not support the standard virtualof Oculus reality, Microsoft believes that the game will be played in the practical applications of augmented reality (it prefers the term “mixed reality”).
Mixed reality will allow virtual experience to interact with the real world. In addition, Windows Holographic will allow many devices to interact with each other and share a shared virtual space.
Microsoft's approach wants to bring people, objects, and devices under a single mixed reality platform. Maybe that's why Microsoft calls it "mixed." New technology is not just coming to fill our world with new data by creating a completely artificial world, but is said to be for the seamless integration of virtual reality and the real world.
The benefit for developers? Of course, with the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), applications can be deployed and run in holographic or virtual experience. Oculus may have the lead, but Microsoft has the breadth of an ever growing ecosystem with Windows 10.
Open HoloLens will give consumers more options, but also clones. However, the biggest benefit for consumers will probably be the price.
HoloLens currently costs 3.000 dollars, but third-party makers will likely show lower prices.
Increasing competition means better VR and AR for everyone, bringing us closer to creating a society that lives in Matrix not to tell her world….