Microsoft claims “HoloLens is doing nice” after a report earlier this week revealed HoloLens 3 might have been canceled. Enterprise Insider reported on Wednesday that Microsoft has scrapped plans for HoloLens 3 in latest months and that it might be “the top of the street” for the headset. Microsoft has reportedly agreed to accomplice with Samsung on a brand new combined actuality machine, a transfer that has apparently “infected divisions” that exist in Microsoft’s combined actuality groups.
The software program big has been engaged on a customized HoloLens headset for the US Military in a contract that might be value as much as $21.88 billion over 10 years. The headset is meant to make use of augmented actuality and machine studying to allow a “life-like combined actuality coaching surroundings,” however the US Military has pushed again the date it plans to discipline Microsoft’s customized headset. Enterprise Insider studies that the headset is delayed and “suffering from high quality and efficiency issues.”
do not imagine what you learn on the web. #HoloLens is doing nice and for those who search stated web in addition they stated we had cancelled #HoloLens2… which final I checked we shipped with success [)-)
— Alex Kipman (@akipman) February 3, 2022
Anonymous Microsoft employees speaking to Business Insider claim there is confusion and uncertainty over the future of HoloLens inside the division that is run by Alex Kipman, technical fellow at Microsoft. “Don’t believe what you read on the internet,” claims Kipman in a reply to a tweet referencing the report. “HoloLens is doing great and if you search said internet they also said we had cancelled HoloLens 2… which last I checked we shipped with success.”
It has now been more than seven years since Microsoft first announced its HoloLens headset, but the company has seen a number of high profile HoloLens employee exits to competitors. The Wall Street Journal reported last month that more than 70 Microsoft employees on the HoloLens team have left the company in the past year, with more than 40 joining Meta.
Meta, formerly Facebook, is aggressively pursuing the dream of a metaverse, and it’s something Microsoft wants to build, too. “We feel very well positioned to be able to catch what I think is essentially the next wave of the internet,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about the metaverse last month. “I think the next wave of the internet will be a more open world where people can build their own metaverse worlds, whether they’re organizations, game developers, or anyone else.”