HoloLens 3 plans were scrapped and employees are leaving to join Meta.
In 2018, Microsoft secured a $480 million contract when the military purchased 100,000 HoloLens headsets, believing it could provide “increased lethality, mobility, and situational awareness necessary to achieve overmatch against our current and future adversaries.” Microsoft employees protested the contract, and sent a letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and President Brad Smith, stating the deal had “crossed the line” and that they “did not sign up to develop weapons.
LinkedIn profiles show that at least 25 Microsoft employees working on mixed reality left to join Meta last year alone, andook’s parent company. The HoloLens team is now uncertain about the long-term goals of the project and whether they will transition to working on a software platform.
Microsoft was one of the first companies to champion augmented reality headsets, with Nadella stating in 2019 that “mixed reality is one of the defining technologies of our time” and listing mixed reality as one of three technologies that will shape the future .Microsoft has been working on its AR headset for nearly a decade and launched the first developer edition in 2016.
the real world, it was clear that Microsoft has a long way to go to create the headsets you see in futuristicthe company had taken only small steps forward. Despite slow progress, Microsoft has doubled down on augmented and virtual reality in recent months, claiming itsMicrosoft’s mixed-reality plans now appear to be hanging by a thread, and its most ambitious project yet is on the brink of collapse, just as talk about the metaverse—the future it was meant to help create—reaches a fever pitch.
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