https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/24/microsoft-hololens-2-launches-at-mobile-world-congress.html
It's still aimed at enterprise; it costs $3500.
Is the FoV any better?
It apparently has twice the FoV.
Microsoft is aiming it for enterprise customers only, not consumer. They straight up said this:
Besides, Kipman argues, even the HoloLens 2 isn’t good enough to be a real mass-market consumer technology product. “This is the best, highest
watermark of what can be achieved in mixed reality and I’m here to tell you that it’s still not a consumer product,” he says, then continues:
Why is it not a consumer product? It’s not as immersive as you want it to be. It’s more than twice as immersive as the previous one,
[but it’s] still not immersive enough for that consumer off the street to go use it. It’s still not comfortable enough … I would say that until these things are way more immersive
than the most immersive product, way more comfortable than the most comfortable product, and at or under $1,000, I think people are kidding themselves in thinking that these products are ready.
That's a way better strategy than the weird "just give it to random jackoffs" strategy that Google Glass employed. The enterprise environment allows Microsoft and developers to find, you know, actual uses for the product, and get real feedback from professionals. That kind of feedback is way more valuable than feedback from consumers would be.
Weird they're trying to put people off buying it.
In 3 years the tech will be advanced and cheap enough to be something like a luxury phone.
That's literally what they're doing
Putting out a half-baked product dooms the public image of that brand, even if a fully-featured and polished model is later released.
A museum I love used Hololens for an exhibit. Was really cool, would be neat if they used the new Hololens in a new exhibit.
So why put it out?
Because a half-baked consumer product is much better suited as a fully-baked enterprise device.
They're putting it out in a limited market because HoloLens is a user-heavy product and they desperately need user feedback.
The next generation of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yrdBgX4h1M
It's good for some limited use cases, but not ready for prime time. Consumers would be buying an experimental formula 1 car and start asking about where the damn cup holders are.
Having tried one a month ago at a museum, it's really cool, but also obviously not good for gaming or productivity (unless you have very specific needs).
Despite not being quite ready for consumers it's ahead of all the devices in the field by an immense stretch, and that's the first hololens. There's already industries where AR is proving hugely profitable, so even if it's not ready for the average person to buy off the shelf and watch netflix with, it's still proving incredibly valuable and gaining valuable feedback for eventual release to consumers.
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