Microsoft lied to us when they were showing off Project Natal (Kinect) with the Milo demo. I currently don't believe their advertisements until they finally release their product.

yea, I don't know how much of their nice trailers for this is real, hands-on impressions from several websites were pretty glowing, so I'm looking forward to test it myself someday

As far as I've seen, Hololens has limitless application as a interface...but, far less application for gaming. Will be more than happy to see what they've got in store though. If it works on PC, then it's got a chance (with me, that is).

from what I understood it's a self-contained device, all the processing power is inside to make it highly portable

I'm not sure if you can use it as a sort of "display" for X1/PC AR games, it's AR games might have to be made specifically for the HoloLens device

Well, until I see something that interests me on a gaming level, that's not really what I'd be interested in it for.  I'd be more interested for the interface capabilities.

Outside of petty brand wars, i really don't understand why AR and VR are constantly pitted against each other. As independent technologies (as is the case right now), they both provide something potentially useful that the other can't. As a combined piece of tech (which i expect will one day be the case, assuming both become mainstream), the comparison becomes moot. It all seems a bit silly to me.

Regardless, i look forward to seeing how AR progresses. A consumer grade device that meets the standards set by MS's demo would be incredibly exciting. The biggest initial hurdle will be price, but i don't think even that will matter in the long run. As long as it's something people want, it'll mostly just be a matter of waiting for the technology to be more affordable (which should happen naturally).

I expect that in supported apps you can send your project data from PC seemlessly to the HoloLens to visualize it similar to what the trailer showed, however I would be suprised if it worked as a sort of monitor alternative that you can simply display anything from your desktop/ from any programm/application on.

For gaming applications I just can't see any advantages over VR.

This will undoubtedly be useful for a plethora of real world things however.

I'm not saying this won't be cool. I'm just saying that when people experience full VR, they're not going to want to make a "step down" to AR. And this has NOTHING to do with PS4. I'm talking Oculus here. 

I'm looking forward to seeing them. The way they are showing it, seem AR is more like VR plus a little more perspective. And it seems HoloLense would have no trouble giving you VR if that's what you wanted.

Microsoft has been researching this a long time, and developed some new technologies for it use. Can't Wait!