Microsoft HoloLens 2 Review 

Watching this after the Vision Pro Release

It'll be cool if it could run fl studio, or any music daw. Imagine being a producer

I cannot wait to see these things get huge, I have been following the HoloLens production for a while here, but great vid man, helps me allot while looking to buy one!

I find this much better than apple vision pro

AR right now kind of feels like where VR was in the 90s. The pieces and concepts are there but it doesn't come close to adding up to a practical whole.

That Ford GT part legitimately looked like a scene from Tony Stark pov!...

I work for HP Indigo and we have a few customers that have these on site. I do remote support on the Indigo digital presses and to use these is a game changer. I got to work with a customer yesterday who had the HOLOLENS and to see what they are seeing first hand was a real help on fixing their press issue. The interaction between us was seamless and never had to question what the customer was doing or where they were at on the press. I feel excited that I am part of this technology and have the opportunity to use it in a real world situation

Great review! Can't wait to see this technology ten years from now. If this was affordable, more responsive, with a wider field of view, every reasonable person alive would want it. If they can fit it into a much smaller headset, on top of those changes, it would be unstoppable. I really appreciate the quality and thoroughness of your review!

I see a future in performance capture for video games with these things. Maybe one day actors can see the in-game environments they're supposed to be in or even other characters fully modeled they're talking to

how does depth of view feel? can you focus your eyes on the distance when you look at the environment in the background, like the trees or buildings in the beginning of the video

Amazing, slick review. Man deserves more subs!

Hi! Thank you for your video, can I use Hololens on Mac?

Which software was used to expand the engine in the beginning of the video?

i was really amaze about vision pro. until i saw this and it was 2 years old video..

Surprised you didn’t go into the graffiti application, it was my favorite one to play around with. Also would love to hear about more of the applications for the medical field as well education applications, like how nasa is currently using it or how the military ordered a boatload of headsets as well.

@uploadvr what is the application at frame 9:33?

nice , very real review. thanks but you missed a few stuff, how much light will affect the holograms. can you read on your pc with that thing on? how long will it last? very important for me is drift!! what about dirft??? what about the 3d mesh have you ever seen drift?

The latency doesn't look right, but I must say I am excited about how it will impact my work. I hate using multiple monitors for coding, I like to Google stuff while I'm watching Netflix, and it will be very cool to be able to see 3D models.

What would be pretty important in my opinion to be more immersive is improving rendering and occlusion. I mean if I want to touch the virtual surfaces of windows, menus and meshes, they shouldn't be rendered on top of everything unregarded to the context. It should be possible to generate a depth buffer from the headsets depth sensor and merge virtual surfaces with it, so that your real hands in front of the virtual objects just disable rendering behind them. This is already possible with a Kinect so it shouldn't be a huge issue to implement. Otherwise the performance and responsiveness doesn't seem to good to be honest. It doesn't make much sense to run a bloated OS like Windows 10 on that chip. It's probably a cut down version anyway but I would appreciate using an OS designed for this use case much more which basic Windows 10 clearly isn't. I mean I could test around with the first version of the HoloLens a little and the worst part of it was that it run Windows because it filled the whole memory via OS usage and crashed our application. The hardware is obviously still pretty interesting and the current state of tracking the environment and its user at the same time is impressive. But there's still much progress to be done.. probably on the efficiency of the chips running the software as well.

My brother in law let me try the halo lens 1 when he came over(works at microsoft) it was amazing to see what it does, but yeah years away from playing AAA games on. but it will revolutionize games and the way we work. It blew me away like the first time you went to a 3d movie.

finally an objective and insightful review!

I'll check back every 3-5 years to see where it is. I don't like the idea of these in contacts (like people say it should be in the "distant future") but some classic terminator sun glasses would be nice. VR really made it's first steps about 5 years ago (2016) and started to become awesome with Beat Saber a few years ago (although even VR could still use improvement) I see this technology being useful for industrial work in 5-8 years max and 3 years after that office work and a few more years before Pokémon Go gets it's best version

Very thorough, quick and simple explanations. Thanks for spending the money and time for us plebs

is it possible to use hololens in the google translator?

Honestly I think the Hololens was meant to be used indoors. It's similar to a computer monitor. You wouldn't bring that outside. Honestly it's a good experiment and would be incredibly useful if and when all the kinks are worked out. I'd buy one if they become available to the mass market. It looks incredibly fun.

Screens for me still have room for improvement, the rainbow banding is really noticeable on the one I use at work.

Amazing review and work to be honest

Apple Vision Pro vs HoloLens 2 vs Quest 3? Which is your team?

I just want a visor that works as a monitor for my windows pc, so I can code and sip tea outside

Can you program an object to search for rectangular 🚪 doors? So you load the object and make it look for the way out. That would be the most amazing thing

Still so odd this product was unveiled so many years ago at E3 on the Xbox main stage.... lol can’t wait for this headset to be consumer ready though

Any idea how this feels wearing it all day? Comfortable or uncomfortable? Too heavy? Or are they good to wear? And are the batteries replaceable or does it just charge like a phone? Thanks.

are you getting the 2 ?

Is the tracking good if you are sitting or walking in a moving vehicle like a train?

Interesting coming back to this after apples announcement

Can you use on Mac?

Great review

And here is apple vision

Great Honest review 👍🏼

Mixed bc it can change the enviroment?

Apparently Lynx R1 is coming out this year. It's AR and VR in one headset

We use everyday at work. Loads of potential.

But can it run Crysis?

you presented this better than microsoft did in the demo I saw

i love how someone final put the computer in the back and not just a battery...it makes no sense for it to be in the front for the quest when you can clearly see that it work fine in the back of this

So crazy just how primitive the interactions and animations are when you consider what it will become. And how big VR headsets are to accomplish these very early stage experiences. I give it 6 or 7 years before it’s doing it in the frame of regular sunglasses. And some day, contact lenses or direct neuro connection. And we’ll look back on these and laugh Good for Microsoft though. This is the best you can do with todays tech and you need companies willing to make imperfect versions for the amazing ones of the future to be possible. Humble roots

now we have Apple Vision Pro

I just tried this at school today and it was really fun i even had laser pointing fingers!

They have a load of them at my university, I'll see if I can have a go every now and then!

respect, this kind of product is the one that pretty much no one will willing to buy...but it is inventing the most cuting-edge tech will change the world in the long run

HoloLens 2 looks almost exactly like the old Meta 2 headset2. I wonder if Microsoft was the mysterious buyer of Meta's assets when the bank called in their loan or if this is just a simple case of convergent evolution.

+1 for the Pearl Jam posters

Thanks!

can't wait for this to be commercially available to everyone

Just saw what Apple just released and if Hololens 2 can sell for 3.5K, I don't see why Apple can't sell a bunch. It's a much better product.

I saw a prototype for HoloLens 1 about 6 years ago. Back then it was a full head helmet, almost like a Power Rangers helmet. Glad to see they reduced the weight, however that old helmet might have been fun, lol.

I own one of these and use it for work. Mine is kinda updated

Jesus imagine how real the porn on that thing will be!

Is this better thn Apple's visionpro

Think you forgot the best feature which is being able to use a remote desktop virtual screen with a real keyboard !

Imagine playing call of duty in your neighborhood.

Honesty I just want to play Sudoku, like on my phone, but without my wrists getting sore, and my eyes strained from persistent close focus.

i’m gonna buy it!

I love this!

This all of a sudden reminds me of amusphere

cant wait to make this technology more accurate

This is an old headset. I can’t wait for hololense 3 and hopefully it will have the same display as in the IVAS headset for the army which has a much larger fov.

I would be happy with a device that is solely developed around the concept of integrating a computer desktop. The tech is is exactly where it needs to be to accomplish that task, and I would back it in a fucking heart beat.

That headstart and apple is the one that may take it to the goal line. Still looks uncomfortable their headset but it looks miles ahead of what Microsoft has done. Unless HoloLens 3 is going to make a surprise appearance this year.

The best "home/regular user" review so far

It is indeed a mixed reality Headset. Mixed Reality encompasses everything that mixes the real with the virtual. It doesn't matter if you can see through the objects.

apple vision pro?

Can’t wait for AR to become more advanced and less of an industry product. But this really does show that we aren’t that far from it at all

Ar is the next vr. Why won't anyone else ! Make more. If it was cheaper I bet it'd fly off the shelves

I am from Belarus, but that was very informative video, u told so many interesting things, using words, as i know)

Look, all I want is portable monitors to use multi windows of Firefox browser anywhere I am

I didn't even know this was actually real, thought it was a concept that never came to fruitions lol

i want to pull up my ships from space engineers

ok honestly the only thing i'd buy it for is unlimited screens with free size and rotation all with 3d depth

yo guys i realised that you can mine in minecraft just now bruh how many of you knew that

I'll wait for Linux version.

Do you think its realistic that we see Apple or Google making the first consumer friendly AR glasses within the next 2 years (with functionalities like hand tracking)?

They need to make gloves for these sorts of things. That way it's more accurate and doesn't get disturbed by other things moving.

Funny how apple always wins with these tech. Others have been doing it for such a long time but when apple vision pro comes it becomes good . They really know how to release things when it’s actually good enough.

The way you pronounce Opaque is bizarre as all hell. :D

this is the future.

So these are early stage tony stark glasses?

Microsoft Engineers: I've come up with the minimum viable product, it still sucks and it isn't ready but- Satya Nadella: Launch it Microsoft Engineers: But it literally sucks and- Satya Nadella: I said launch it

US Military has offered something around a $480 Million dollar contract for MicroSoft to make these and some of the people who work there want nothing to do with it but I don’t see MicroSoft allowing $480 Million dollars to walk out the front door lol

I'd buy one for work to watch movies

But I wonder how it projects black colour.

We are close people play the sowrd art online song

I've used both the HL1 and 2. The 2's bigger FOV is still teeny. Definitely not close for a consumer device. If you have or get to use one for work, you'll be much happier you don't have to use the original.

Microsoft hololens 2 , can't wait to see it.

Commenting in 2024. The entire Holland team has since been laid off, and the project has been discontinued. Apple has released its vision, pro capable of delivering true augmented reality alongside with top of the class AR ability. Many kudos to Microsoft and hollow lids for setting the groundwork with this piece of tech. Arguably, the two companies have been working on the same concept for decades, but Microsoft took a Hail Mary. In my opinion that Hail Mary cost them their product, but it took balls to throw themselves out in the market like that.

I can't imagine doing shrooms and slipping this thing on lmao

The reason why we call it MR (mixed reality) rather than AR (augmented reality), Is because MR, will have the added ability for these 3D images/text/whatever to interact directly with reality. As of right now the technology is in its infancy, making it feel a lot more like AR. But soon we’ll be able to project very realistic in movement and in environment interaction models. Imagine projections of your biggest horror movie favorites. Very realistic scary girls coming from the tv.

Meanwhile the US Army "Sold!" Which they are going to use it for the same thing you always had in video games... A hud or HMD in this case... As for me that is also all I want from AR but also a head tracker and have AR screens for Flight sims and my daily life connected to a phone/PC. Which does not involve me leaving the house much and when I do it's for doctor's appoiments, visting my Sister and going to a local TT shop for game night... So, the main flaw with holo lens for me is the wearablity... which you can get the first one used for $300 because of enterpirse... But yeah I'll get a AR headest as soon as they work for the stuff I need them for.

The tech companies know this is the next big thing. Just gotta be patient for another 15 years.

It costs like 4K €. :D