If you were hoping to play Minecraft on your coffee table this year then you are going to be disappointed, Microsoft have revealed that Hololens won’t be able to the general public until they feel it is ready as they want to avoid having another Kinect on their hands.
“It was not a pleasant experience,” said Microsoft’s Alex Kipman, referring to the gesture based controller. “It was just not ready to go sell 10 million units in 60 days, which is what it did.”
Hololens is currently available to business users so they can develop apps, but it costs $3,000. As for the consumer version, “When I feel the world is ready, then we will allow normal people to buy it,” Kipman said, “It could be as soon as we say ‘yes,’ and it could be as long as a ‘very long time.’”
Sucks to be us ‘normal people’, eh?
Here is a video of Hololens in action, although it’s a bit of a cheat…
…As the viewing area for Hololens is rather smaller than shown on that video. Skip to :48, 0:58, 1:23, 1:38, and 1:42 in this video to see the actual viewing area.
Source: Recode
Severn2j
“When I feel the world is ready, then we will allow normal people to buy it,” Kipman said
Wow, f*ck you. How patronizing is that? I think what he means is when they can make it good enough and cheap enough that everyone wont fill the internet with shitty PR like they did with Kinect, then MS might risk it..
Amphlett
#DealWithIt
Severn2j
Lol, yeah forgot it was the same company.. Maybe that’s the company mantra.