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Features, pricing and release date — Microsoft HoloLens

It has been quite inspiring to see what our partners have built and what individual developers have created. Microsoft calls this "mixed reality" as it merges the digital and real world. We also celebrated our existing partners, organization across a wide range of industries, who moved pilots created specifically for mixed reality and our holographic landscape into production.

Microsoft HoloLens headset has launched in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand starting at £2,719. The visor caries a transparent lens containing a CPU, a GPU, a holographic processor and an audio device that lets you hear your holograms speak. "The HoloLens allows students to explore the world in completely new ways".

Developers pre-ordering HoloLens today will receive their headsets before the end of November.

June 1, 2016: we announced that mixed reality is coming to PCs. Share your thoughts with us in the comments section below. U.S. firm Lowe's Home Improvement uses the devices to help customers make decisions on home projects.

At a demonstration in London, Thyssenkrupp showed how their engineers were given HoloLens to help them fix elevators.

It remains to be seen when Microsoft HoloLens will be unveiled in India. Microsoft believes there will be consumer applications in the longer run, but for now is concentrating on what the mixed reality experience could do inside businesses.

KitGuru Says: The Hololens is an intruiging product but it is far from being ready for consumers to use.

Microsoft wants to take on the likes of Oculus Rift HTC Vive Google Cardboard and the just-launched Sony Play Station VR

Nasa has also been using the technology in its offices and on board the International Space Station. The Commercial Suite, however, will set you back $7269. HoloLens will cost 3,299 euro in Germany, France, and Ireland.

Audi: "Audi is invested in leading the future of automotive design through the use of cutting-edge technologies".

A blog post has more on the news.

However, owning a HoloLens will cost you a lot of money. Today this changes, as Microsoft announces that it will be delivering HoloLens to more countries, such as Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, and UK.

One of the more intriguing augmented reality solutions comes from Microsoft. Microsoft HoloLens is a headset that projects holographic images in the real world and users have been given the ability to interact with things.

Now that HoloLens is rolling out in more countries, developers all across the world can start developing apps for the holographic platform. It remains available in the United States and Canada to interested developers.

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Features, pricing and release date — Microsoft HoloLens