Microsoft HoloLens 2 is now available: This is what its AR does

Hand and eye tracking combine to manipulate holographic things for enterprise. We take another look.

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Hand and eye tracking combine to manipulate holographic things for enterprise. We take another look.

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SunnySzeto

November 7, 2019 at 3:19 pm

It can pair to an app to get your footage

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Majdi Jaigirdar

November 7, 2019 at 3:43 pm

Show us what you see

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- Jack Johnson
  
  November 7, 2019 at 4:04 pm
  
  No, that makes too much sense!
  
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David Inchcliff

November 7, 2019 at 3:52 pm

That was in iron man movies. In other words; they already had it back then.

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ADIL saleem

November 7, 2019 at 4:14 pm

Good but some people can buy because they are too expensive

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ADIL saleem

November 7, 2019 at 4:14 pm

Which is not that good????

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potatoes gonna potate

November 7, 2019 at 4:17 pm

Good way to conceal my use of LSD in public.

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- I Main Bastion
  
  November 7, 2019 at 10:53 pm
  
  Underrated comment ????
  
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Jacob Hence

November 7, 2019 at 4:40 pm

Clickbait. No new info

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ohaleceiffel

November 7, 2019 at 4:52 pm

this is the future? feels like the atari 1600 of supercomputers. just plain unimpressive.

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x_factor

November 7, 2019 at 5:04 pm

When these things can process user transactions in an erp or when you can code in VR space will be the next level. This looks like a fun gimmick right now.

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Xydrome Studios

November 7, 2019 at 6:12 pm

Reminds me of Tony stark fixing the Shield ship in the first Avengers movie.

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steviefranchize21

November 7, 2019 at 6:20 pm

the talk about this thing years ago was certainly just hype… am not impressed by it at all.

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Eric H

November 7, 2019 at 6:31 pm

I wish they would have shown in real time what he was seeing for the entire video as watching someone move hands around doesn’t excite me to buy a product.

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- Sean Ahlenius
  
  November 7, 2019 at 7:26 pm
  
  It shows a bit of it if you keep watching.
  
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- CNET
  
  November 7, 2019 at 10:37 pm
  
  We’ll try to show as much as possible next time!
  
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- d man
  
  November 8, 2019 at 5:35 pm
  
  yeah, especially since like connecting this to a projector for a presentation or classroom would be a great use
  
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- Eric H
  
  November 9, 2019 at 12:59 am
  
  @CNET Awesome thanks
  
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- Google Name
  
  November 11, 2019 at 12:36 am
  
  You make to much sense.
  
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JetSetHero

November 7, 2019 at 7:42 pm

But did they fix the field of view problem?

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SpazTastic

November 7, 2019 at 7:58 pm

Am I the only one who thought this was Ethan from h3h3? ????

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edw501

November 7, 2019 at 8:19 pm

Radiation level at this close to your head ?

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Zen = Yen ????

November 7, 2019 at 8:49 pm

I also want to see that sketchy thing that u were doing

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Christopher Sharp

November 7, 2019 at 10:36 pm

Great potential. Terrible job showing what it’s able to do.

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Enklu

November 7, 2019 at 11:19 pm

HoloLens 2 might be enterprise focused but we’ve got a pretty great solution for creatives and devs 🙂

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Archie Pina

November 8, 2019 at 2:08 am

This has potential to be one of the greatest tools for theoretical physicists.

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Perry Guy

November 8, 2019 at 3:32 am

Dad, telephone, its Needles!…Dad its for you

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Kyle R

November 8, 2019 at 4:10 am

Remember when the first iPhone came out and we thought pinching to zoom was THE MOST futuristic? This is one of those moments; in 15 years we’ll watch this while wearing AR glasses the size of a contact lens and laugh. As a side note this makes me excited for Apple’s headset 😉

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Yingnan Wang

November 8, 2019 at 5:42 am

1:30 That 3d model aliasing is terrible

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- ruddy illanes
  
  November 9, 2019 at 7:49 pm
  
  What is aliasing?
  
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Xitij Thool

November 8, 2019 at 7:05 am

I was hoping to view the the snail like thread diagram but the narrator didn’t show till the end. Well this is much more futerestic.

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Yezrah Forevermore

November 8, 2019 at 8:16 am

Pokemon Go new version.. open world game where you see pokemon running around and go battle them and other trainers using this!!!!

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- Asterlofts
  
  November 10, 2019 at 12:00 am
  
  Impossible … the price of a single Hololens 2 is $ 3,500.
  
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Anshuman Tiwari

November 8, 2019 at 12:57 pm

Microsoft woowoow ♥♥♥

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Nekminute

November 8, 2019 at 5:28 pm

i have a hard on for VR.
AR not so much

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AR Holobeard

November 8, 2019 at 8:28 pm

@Scott Stein and everybody else. Lets clear the air right now – nobody is going to plunk down $3500 out the gate. Businesses are going get the $125 month setup with the Remote Assist software. AND guess what, for businesses that is a great price for a tool when put with Microsoft’s Dynamics 365. I know because my research on D365 and the Mixed Reality suite, I have several dozen techs ready to plunk down their own money to be part of a beta testing group. Its laptop wrapped around your head – it can do what it needs to for businesses and more. Everybody need to stop WAVING there arms about $3500 and think like a business of the monthly cost amortized over 28 months and then think about what they spend on business Iphones or tablets

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John Fry

November 9, 2019 at 4:46 am

I hope this is Faladay Cage tested

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Maxx Koggen

November 9, 2019 at 10:16 am

This is dumb

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Alex Hein

November 9, 2019 at 8:00 pm

The field of view is still terrible.

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