It's been reported that Microsoft has laid off 60 members of it’s HoloLens team in Israel. 30 members are contract workers and have been laid off immediately. The 30 other members are Microsoft workers and have been given a month to find jobs elsewhere internally in Microsoft. One of the Microsoft employees has also reported to be working on HoloLens through another technology based in the US.

http://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-reportedly-lays-60-hololens-team-members-israel

I guess they're near the end of the development cycle.

okay.

best part of the thread was avatar's boobs.

Sounds reasonable since it's close to release.

Looks like it's nearing completion and they're trimming unneeded staff.

I thought most was based in Seattle, but some of the 3D imaging stuff they bought was from an Israeli company. Plus half being consultants those jobs always end, eventually.

Moving from product development to production, as others have noted.

Same thing must have happened with Kinect, back when.