Throwback to this quip from 2015, that made me so damn hopeful and excited at the time: “HoloLens is 5 years away from consumer’s hands” https://stevivor.com/news/microsoft-suggests-that-hololens-i...
Rest in peace my chunky friend, may you be revered/giggled-at in museums of computing for centuries to come. Clearly, you were born before your time.
Props to Meta for bullying a trillion-dollar corporation out of an entire market segment just by touting a prototype! I think that proves just how amazing of a prototype Orion is, $10,000 price tag or no. I would give Apple some credit too, but AFAICT Apple Vision has been a HoloLens-style disappointment so far.
There's plenty of application for AR, provided it can be made to work well for practical command or battlefield applications: R&D is ultimately expensive, and a contract from the military would've been for the supply and testing of it in this application.
(i.e. to properly test such a thing, you've still got to pay someone to build the sort of software and interfaces you think you might need before you can even put a soldier in the field to trial it).
Was it due to under-investment? Are they not asking the right questions? Not properly solving a need? Or just trying to stuff windows into all these places without recognizing it doesn't fit?
As more recent example, see the Windows desktop mess, or how they started to push Blazor Hybrid inside of MAUI, alongside the whole MAUI rewrite, mudding the waters of MAUI's purpose.
How many way there are now to do Web apps in ASP.NET, classical MVC, Razor Pages, Blazor Server, Blazor Client, Blazor Fullstack,...
PTC demonstrated the Apple Vision in a factory-like setting. I would NEVER approve such a thing.