The company sees the support of third-party developers as a crucial factor for the group to reach its future goals.
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Having already secured backing from the likes of SpaceX and NASA, Microsoft is looking to continue to spur on development using the headset by offering some lucky developers a 0,000 (£64,000) grant to work on projects that show off HoloLens’ power. The device is now on a “five year journey” according to Microsoft, and enterprise users and businesses will be among the first to get access. The company also aims to release its augmented reality headset to enterprise owners and consumers.
Hot on the heels of its Windows 10 software launch Microsoft isn’t resting on its laurels by pressing ahead with the hotly anticipated launch of its HoloLens augmented reality headset.
Microsoft has demonstrated some applications of the HoloLens, such as the ability to not just design products, buildings and other items in 3D, but to explore them in three dimensions, too.
We will have developer versionsof it first, and then it will be more commercial use cases and then it will evolve.
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The Microsoft CEO also pointed out that HoloLens is a “five year journey” which basically means that it’s going to take a lot of time before you’re able to walk into your favorite retailer and pick up a HoloLens. “It’s in the Windows 10 timeframe which means that it is within the next year”.
