Microsoft Exec Says Hololense Will Cost More than Xbox

[Aeolus451]

JRPGfan said:

Aeolus451 said:
I doubt it will cost more than the console itself. MS knows there's no point in an AR peripheral device with too high of a price point. The price needs to be cheap in order to compete with VR offerings.

Title of the thread:  MS Exec says HoloLense will cost more than a Xbox.

People are predicting a 800-1200$ price tag in this thread.

 

Your probably going to need a "pc" box that handles all the physics & compute needed to be analysed by kinect, so you dont slow down the Xbox unnessarly.

Basically if you have your xbox 1 do all the compute, what the AR is going to be capable of is probably going to be limited.

So you off-load that stressed workload to a additional unit you hookup to your xbox.

 

Its not going to be cheap to get AR.

Unless this unnamed MS Exec is named, I'll treat it just as a rumor. It's more logical to sell the hololens for a lot cheaper to get it into as many homes as possible to become a mainstream hit.