I mean seriously:
That's right: In the near-future, the coolest kids on the block will eagerly don bigass sunglass-looking things which make them seem more like retirees sunning by the pool of their Palm Beach condo. I don't mean to be a hater, I really don't, but when even TechCrunch gets skeptical about demonstrating existing hardware (the HoloLens, which can't even deliver on existing promises) with utter vaporware, you have to slap your forehead (which I can still do, because I'm not wearing a HoloLens):
In a keynote presentation at Computex in Taipei and a couple of blog posts today, Microsoft doubled down on the mixed reality efforts spearheaded by Hololens – Windows 10, the company aims to show, is place to be when it comes to mixed reality... The video shows a few things that aren’t real, but some are more real than others. In vain did I attempt to make a Microsoft representative place certain things, like the “next generation hand tracking” on a real-world roadmap. I did however learn the phrase “subject to future announcement,” which is a new one. (Evasive diction is one of the finer arts of public relations and is often indifferently done, but this phrase I approve.)
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