Nadella: HoloLens Version 1 aimed at Enterprise Users not Gaming

[Legend]

Nadella: HoloLens Version 1 aimed at Enterprise Users not Gaming - NeoGAF

"I did buy Minecraft to create a new genre of gaming for mixed reality. We bought Minecraft for many reasons: because it's the number one PC app; it's the number one console app; it's the number one paid mobile app on iOS and Android. I wanted a hit game even for the new medium of mixed reality. And we will have that. Gaming will always be a scenario and there will be other entertainment broadly. But, with the V.1 of HoloLens, I want us to push a lot more of the enterprise usage."
 "In general Microsoft's approach will be always this dual-use focus, or this multi-focus. What we can uniquely do is bridge consumer to enterprise. That's in our DNA. That's why it's even in our mission statement of empowering people and organizations. I want every technology of ours to seek that out. In the HoloLens case, when I look at the interest, it's amazing how many are in hospitals, healthcare, retail. That's where I'm seeing the interest and we'll definitely go after it.".

 

ZDNet
 Not surprising to me given that most of the videos and marketing (outside Minecraft and that Halo 5 thing) we've seen has been enterprise related.
 Also probably lends itself to the limits of the current HoloLens to play games, but it still seems like it'd be useful for other uses. I still want one to show me how to do stuff (like setting the time on my VCR..).
 

[Mmm_fish_tacos]

1500 dollar price tag incoming.

[Legend]

1500 dollar price tag incoming.

5,000 dollar price tag. The tech is expensive and this market usually has very large profit margins. Just like the dev program you were wanting.

[Xevross]

5,000 dollar price tag. The tech is expensive and this market usually has very large profit margins. Just like the dev program you were wanting.

Wow that would bomb in the mass market if it stayed at that price. Do you think the version releasing for gaming will cost that much as well??

[Mmm_fish_tacos]

5,000 dollar price tag. The tech is expensive and this market usually has very large profit margins. Just like the dev program you were wanting.

Well it's like an i5 with a second gpu and mini projectors right? I guess the might ask 4 times the cost. If their surface line is anything to go by.

[Aura7541]

It's no surprise that HoloLens still has a long way until it becomes affordable to most consumers.

[Legend]

Wow that would bomb in the mass market if it stayed at that price. Do you think the version releasing for gaming will cost that much as well??

Nah a release in 5 years could be sub $500.

Well it's like an i5 with a second gpu and mini projectors right? I guess the might ask 4 times the cost. If their surface line is anything to go by.

The projectors project through the edge of the glass, not onto it. That's not being done in any commercial products right now, meaning manufacturing could be pretty expensive if it's just for thousands of units instead of millions.

[kitler53]

yeah, initial units will be thousands because it's not a mass market product right now anyways.  high profit margins for the couple of early adapters.  the initial units will basically be development kits moreso then end user product.

[7H3]

announced shortly after google glass enterprise announcement no doubt...