JRPGfan said:
nah... it never even came out, to consumers. |
Yes it was; just not to general consumers.
I have 2 here; this was not a gaming device or something for the grand public, but it was out of businesses, and they had several customers (including NASA).
While the tech is not at the same level as standard AR (the holograms are just from another league and the way they stick around and to wall); it was too expensive. the 2 I got (and I also have the first version dev kit too somewhere, it stopped getting updates at some point and became simply unusable) totalled me something like 12k (and another 5k for the first dev kit) and frankly I got them just cause I had some money in the business account and did not know what to do with it; cause I did not have any usage for it other than having fun...
It sucks really that this tech is too expensive and going with standard AR headset is not really making a difference for the user at the end. While the holograms are better and feels better they have a lot of limitations for the cost of the headset (small viewport, cannot project a "black" holograms, etc...). So until the price thing is solved, the AR headset will simply be better for the consumers.
