| SWORDF1SH said: After watching both Sony and MS E3 events, both we're better for different reasons. MS showed off stuff that will be out this year, including a pretty cool new controller and BC. Sony revealed some amazing stuff, but we will be waiting 'til next year year for most (2 years in some cases). I love VR and what's being showed. Morpheus is getting it right IMO it just works. I'm trying to get hyped for hololens but some things aren't just sticking right with me, for instance, the last few times they showed off hololens, they showed it from a 3rd perspective. I want to view it from the person using it. Why are they not showing this? It seems that they are only showing it in controlled conditions to make it look better than it actually is (kind of like Kinect). I know it's an early product, but if they can't put something together with a prototype that they can go all out on in expense, what hope will a $200/$300 device have? |
HoloLens is a self-contained devices with for the lack of a better description "a PC inside of it". And it must be a pretty highly powered PC with very optimized power consumption (as the space to fit in batteries is tiny). Additionally there are lots of sensors inside and projectors that create the AR picture etc.
So in my opinion it will be $1000+, maybe even significantly more.
HoloLens reportedly has a smaller field of view than the camera feed indicates, people who had hands on report the space in which you can see the "hologramms" is about the size of an ipad at pretty much arms length - outside of that they are invisible.
