HoloLens
product on 6 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes · said 24 times in 14 episodes since 2019
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- a16z Podcast | Virtual Reality v Augmented Reality, and What's Next
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- a16z Podcast | Apple and the Case of Invisible But Audible Innovation
- a16z Podcast | Mobile Falls Hard for Virtual Reality
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Ballmer: Gates strongly disagreed with Microsoft making Surface, phones, and HoloLens
“Disagreed about whether we should do hardware. That was a big one. We did, you know, surface was a big disagreement. Phone, big disagreement. HoloLens. Big disagreement.”
Evans: HoloLens and Magic Leap demos misrepresented narrow field of view
“The big Bullshit thing that you get in these demos, particularly for AR, like that you got with particularly with HoloLens, but also to some extent with Magic Leap, is that they would show you somebody in a slightly three-dimensional world with stuff all aroun…”
Calacanis: Microsoft holds the largest public lead in augmented reality
“And then Microsoft already has HoloLens that they've been investing in heavily. And I think they got the biggest lead that least we publicly know about.”
Russell: Microsoft HoloLens costs $3,000 and has only a few hundred users
“You look at HoloLens, and it's 3000 dollars, and maybe a couple hundred people own it.”
Dixon: Oculus Santa Cruz and HoloLens Only Devices with True Positional Tracking
“And then the Santa Cruz Oculus thing last week was the first, besides the HoloLens, I've ever seen that does true positional tracking.”
Sinofsky: Android OEMs will launch dozens of VR headsets by 2017
“Fast forward this, 1218 months, and you could see the reviews and the columns, and it's going to be the Samsung VR kit, the Xiaomi VR kit, and just like 12 different ones that are like the same but different, and people are going to evaluate those, and then th…”