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Microsoft did this a couple of years ago with Hololens and Minecraft..


You mean the $3000 headset that can only be used for AR?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens/buy


That's the price of the dev kit. Have you ever tried to buy an Xbox or Playstation dev kit?


Oh, then maybe the $5000 "Commercial Suite"?

Or is there some consumer product not listed on their page?


Consumer versions are not released.


When are they coming out?


iirc they're the Mixed Reality Headsets, coming out later this year for around $300


Comparing an ipad/iphone with Microsoft Hololens makes no sense just like you it wouldn't make sense to compare it with Oculus.


Only? Put on an opaque plastic cap and you have VR glasses


Microsoft didn't invent AR so what's your point ?

Also, Apple has almost never been the first to do anything. Tim Cook even admitted this yesterday. What Apple brings to the table is an actual polished solution. Which having used Hololens extensively it absolutely is not.


Especially considering that there is no consumer version of Hololens yet.


>Microsoft did this a couple of years ago with Hololens and Minecraft..

Yes, badly and expensive. And didn't follow up on it properly.


Still in research.

Meanwhile; https://www.metavision.com/


Shhh. And don't mention the Surface, either...


Well, Apple has just released the 'smart keyboard' for its ipads, the 'smart' bit being that with a physical connection, "it doesn't need charging and automatically transfers data". Such innovation! Something keyboards have been lacking for decades...


I know I have been using thin and light portable keyboards that magnetically snap to my PC that also aligns the power/data connection since the early 80's


So you're saying the 'smart' bit is the magnets? Because I don't know what keyboards you were using, but the power and data connections were always aligned when I connected up my keyboards.

Unfortunately, the old-fashioned keyboards also worked when they weren't hard up against the screen - thank god we have these new 'smart' keyboards that have to lie flush against the screen to work.




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