Microsoft's HoloLens-based headset built on contract for the US Army has passed an important round of field testing by soldiers. The company is now set to fulfill a larger order to be used in more rigorous testing slated to...

Microsoft, Qualcomm and Magic Leap announced a partnership to "guide the evolution" of the Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK), a cross-platform AR/VR development framework which has now gone open-source. MRTK was a Microsoft-driven project that provided a set of components and...

Microsoft announced it's released a public preview of Azure Remote Rendering support for Meta Quest 2 and Quest Pro, something that promises to allow devs to render complex 3D content in the cloud and stream it to those VR...

At least from the outside, it appears Microsoft isn't actively competing for a seat at the XR table, which is fairly odd coming from a company that pioneered enterprise AR while simultaneously wrangling some of its top OEM partners...

Microsoft's big defense contract that looks to supply the US Army with modified HoloLens AR headsets isn't going so well. As first reported by Bloomberg, the Senate panel that oversees defense spending announced significant cuts to the Army’s fiscal 2023...

Magic Leap 2 isn't available just yet, but when it hits the market later this year it will be directly competing with Microsoft's HoloLens 2. Though Magic Leap 2 beats out its rival in several meaningful places, its underlying...

Alex Kipman is leaving Microsoft amid what an Insider report alleges to have stemmed from misconduct allegations leveled at the HoloLens co-creator. The report maintains that Microsoft Cloud head Scott Guthrie is planning a reorganization of the departments, as Kipman is...

Microsoft is supposedly gearing up to field test its HoloLens-based military AR headset, however a new report contends the company is bracing for impact, as it's expecting negative feedback from soldiers. Last year, Microsoft announced it had won a United States...

Microsoft's enterprise-focused HoloLens 3 may be dead in the water, as a recent report maintains that internal divisions have hobbled the company's efforts to release its next AR headset as planned. In the days following the report's release, HoloLens...

Microsoft initially began selling HoloLens 2 to enterprise customers back in late 2019, but a broader rollout has taken quite some time. Earlier this year the company began selling the headset directly to individuals, and now its expanding the...

HoloLens 2 has been available to Microsoft business partners and developers since last year, however anyone else interested in the augmented reality headset would have to jump through a few hoops first to get their hands on the device....

Microsoft started shipping HoloLens 2 back in November 2019, but it's been a slow rollout to select customers. While the company says it has shipped "tens of thousands" of HoloLens 2 headset to "hundreds" of enterprise customers, it hasn't...

Microsoft began shipping its latest AR headset, HoloLens 2 in November. After a slow initial rollout, devices are getting out into the hands of more developers and reports have surfaced that many units are exhibiting significant color-consistency issues. Microsoft...

Microsoft today announced that its latest AR headset, HoloLens 2, is finally shipping. The headset can be purchased directly for $3,500 or rented for $125 per month. Microsoft announced HoloLens 2 back in February and has started selling the headset...

Epic Games today released a new video featuring a demo for HoloLens 2 that aims to show off just what sort of graphics can be achieved on Microsoft's latest standalone AR headset. Called Apollo 11: Mission AR, the interactive demo is...