{"id":135134,"date":"2022-02-02T21:22:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T05:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/report-microsoft-hololens-3-is-dead-as-its-mixed-reality-vision-implodes"},"modified":"2022-02-02T21:22:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T05:22:39","slug":"report-microsoft-hololens-3-is-dead-as-its-mixed-reality-vision-implodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/report-microsoft-hololens-3-is-dead-as-its-mixed-reality-vision-implodes","title":{"rendered":"Report: Microsoft HoloLens 3 is dead as its mixed-reality vision implodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/report-microsoft-hololens-3-is-dead-as-its-mixed-reality-vision-implodes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A report by Business Insider says Microsoft has scrapped plans for its own HoloLens 3 and has instead partnered with Samsung\u2014but that no one really knows what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Microsoft has reportedly scrapped its third-generation HoloLens, leaving the company\u2019s \u201cmetaverse\u201d plans in disarray.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?id=111346X1569483&url=https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/microsoft-hololens-3-metaverse-mixed-reality-strategy-confusion-rivalries-2022-2&xcust=2-1-611416-1-0-0&sref=https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/611416\/report-microsoft-hololens-is-dead-as-its-mixed-reality-vision-implodes.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">report<\/a> from <em>Business Insider<\/em>, Microsoft killed off the HoloLens 3 in 2021, shifting to a planned device with Samsung instead. The problem? According to the publication, the company\u2019s mixed-reality\/augmented reality\/virtual-reality division isn\u2019t sure what it plans to do. That\u2019s resulted in employees leaving for Meta and other companies instead.<\/p>\n<p>The company told <em>BI<\/em> that it remains committed to HoloLens and future HoloLens development. It said the same to PCWorld in a statement. \u201cMicrosoft HoloLens remains a critical part of our plans for emerging categories like mixed reality and the metaverse,\u201d the company said. \u201cWe remain committed to HoloLens and future HoloLens development.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report by Business Insider says Microsoft has scrapped plans for its own HoloLens 3 and has instead partnered with Samsung\u2014but that no one really knows what\u2019s going on. Microsoft has reportedly scrapped its third-generation HoloLens, leaving the company\u2019s \u201cmetaverse\u201d plans in disarray. According to a report from Business Insider, Microsoft killed off the HoloLens [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}