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Microsoft's crazy hologram goggles are finally coming to stores here's a first look LAS VEGAS Microsoft is still hard at work at HoloLens, its super-futuristic goggles that project 3D "holograms" into your field of vision. But while programmers have been able to pony up a steep $2,999 for an early, developer edition of the HoloLens headset since March 2016, there's been no word on when it'll hit the store shelves for the average consumer.... Well, at this week's 2017 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft gave us a big update: Microsoft is teaming up with a handful of PC makers who will release their own headsets based on Hololens technology over the next few months. The headsets will basically do the same thing as Hololens which Microsoft still isn't providing a timeframe for the availability of a consumer version but will be made by Dell, Acer, HP, Lenovo and 3Glasses. And they'll be available starting at $299. These new head mounted displays will be the first consumer offerings utilizing the Mixed Reality capabilities of Windows 10 Creators Update," says a Microsoft spokesperson. So while it's unlikely that HoloLens itself will be hitting shelves this year, you'll have your choice of headset that runs the very same software, right in time for Windows 10 to get an update in the first half of this year that adds support for HoloLens-style so-called "mixed reality." Dell's new head-mounted display.Microsoft The headsets are likely to cover a whole gamut of price and performance ranges, much like the PCs that these companies already make. Some will be cheaper than others, depending on the cost of build materials or processing power; some will be high-end monsters. Unlike HoloLens, all of these headsets will need to be tethered to a PC to work, which is a big limitation. However, Microsoft promises that PCs that support the headsets will only cost in the neighborhood of $500 It’s too early to tell whether these headsets will provide the same impressive experience as the Microsoft-made HoloLens, which left us wowed when we tested it last year. While the software is the same, the hardware could make a big difference, in the same way that a $1,500 Surface Book laptop is a better experience than a $200 no-name Windows PC. Still, these headsets already have two major advantages: They'll be way cheaper than the Microsoft version, and you'll actually be able to buy them off the shelf. The launch of these consumer models will also turn up the heat on competitors like Magic Leap, a well-funded startup building a similar product to HoloLens. Without further ado, here's your first look at the very first head-mounted displays for Windows 10

Microsoft has created Star Wars-style holographic communication Microsoft sure seems to be having a ton of fun with HoloLens while the rest of us wait for it to stop being a research project and become a real thing that we can purchase and use. But in the meanwhile, those research projects are bonkers. The latest is called "Holoportation," a term that sounds ridiculously corny until you see it demonstrated, at which point the sci-fi terminology feels completely justified. Mic...rosoft's I3D research group has figured out how to create a live hologram of another person to be placed in another room. A massive array of 3D cameras in one room captures an entire person's movements and speech in real time, then projects them into another room where a HoloLens user can see them and interact with them. It's hard to fully explain in prose, but watch the video below and you'll get it: it's exactly like the hologram communication you've seen in Star Wars. As you can see, it requires a ton of hardware (and, one assumes, a ton of computing power) to make it work. But once it's all set up, you can not only communicate with a hologram in real time, you can also record the interaction for playback and even shrink down the holograms to set on a table. It's been over a year since we saw our first demonstrations of HoloLens, and presumably Microsoft plans to find a way to release a consumer edition soon. Interactions like this one probably won't be in the cards for a while, if only because it requires too much hardware to pull off. But pretty soon we'll begin to see what researchers and developers who don't work at Microsoft can think up. Microsoft Build, its giant developer conference, also kicks off next week. We'll be there with live coverage, and hopefully we'll find out even more about HoloLens. #microsoft #hololens #hologram #microsoft_hololens #microsoftholograms #microsoft_holographicgoogles #hololensglass #hololens #glass

Microsoft HoloLens and Autodesk Fusion 360: Collaboration that could create radical change We are happy to announce that Microsoft HoloLens is partnering with Autodesk Fusion 360 on a solution that we believe could change the way industrial designers, mechanical engineers and other product development fields work together. With HoloLens we can remove many of the barriers that exist today; accelerating product iteration, providing more intuitive cross-team communication, and s...etting new standards in collaboration. Fusion 360 is the ultimate cloud-based 3D design collaboration tool for product designers and engineers. A natural partner for HoloLenswhich we think is the best 3D content visualizer on the planet. Unlike any other technology, HoloLens uses mixed reality to bring holographic, 3D content into the real world, allowing designers to view 3D content in high-definition, at true size and scale relative to other real world objectswith the ability to move freely around it. This solution also allows non-designers to provide design feedback visually, and more easily, tightening the feedback loop between design and engineering disciplines. When you’re designing in 3D, viewing content in 3D is an incredible advantage. For designers and engineers using Fusion 360, this also means more effective validation of 3D modelswhich could mean fewer physical prototypes. Check out the Autodesk blog post, and the video below, for a view of what we are working on with Fusion 360. And apply now for the Microsoft HoloLens Development Edition that ships to developers in Q1 of 2016 in the United States and Canada.