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The second iteration debuted in 2019 and was slightly more expensive, but had a better set of cameras and lens mounts allowing for more precise operation, and offered a broader range of software capabilities including industrial applications.Ĭurrent Hololens users include heavyweights like Kenworth, Suntory and Toyota, which uses the headset to speed up training and car repairs, according to Microsoft. The $3,000 commercial suite shipped with a professional edition of Windows, with extra security features and software to aid application development. Rather than flood the consumer market with marketing hype, Microsoft quietly launched Hololens a year later as an industrial manufacturing tool targeted to a select group of enterprise firms. Microsoft announced the Hololens mixed reality glasses in 2015. The project flopped, but not before spawning countless memes. Glass was essentially the guts of a smartphone with a small camera mounted on a frame of non-prescription glasses. Literally: The $1,500 product was announced by Google founder Sergey Brin as he jumped out of an airplane. Today the augmented reality glasses are marketed as a tool for enterprise businesses, but when it launched Google's expectations were sky high. It also helped Google pivot from its previous augmented reality experiment, Glass. It wasn't the highest-resolution, or high-tech, experience but the strategy helped introduce millions of students and aspiring developers to virtual reality. Google says it shipped "tens of millions" of foldable headsets and Google Cardboard apps were downloaded over 160 million times. In 2014, what was then the world's largest tech firm asked millions of people to strap their smartphone to their face with a piece of cardboard. Google Cardboard might be the most successful VR project in history. These are some of the firms whose products Facebook will have to contend with as it seeks to put its stamp on the meta-landscape. "The metaverse is real and Wall Street is looking for winners," Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said in a note.
