DarthBuzzer
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You're out of your mind if you think either VR or MR is forever going to be niche as you put it. This is about as ridiculous as claiming the world only has need for 5 computers, or that the Internet will be a fad. Expect MR/VR to be just as if not more popular than smartphones. Logic says this will happen.MR is a very niche enterprise tool, they are releasing HL v2.0 but the product is very niche and at $3,500, its not even close to being a real tool. VR is mostly a niche game device, probably the next gen hardware will make it better but its like MR, it will always be niche. Furthermore, VR is a no go as far as running from Azure unless you want people barfing all over so long-term limited future for Microsoft. I would not be surprised by HL being canned at some point - if they can't reduce the size. Since the processing is heavily done locally on HL, the cloud has less to do with it and is not impacted by Microsoft moving OS to the cloud, generally speaking.
HL can probably be used with some other devices (phones tablets, watches) as well at some point. If you are moving to cloud processing VR is not going to happen there, so all this basically makes sense to me.
If the future is cloud, VR is not a part of that future because of barfing.
Also, HoloLens 2 relies more on cloud processing than it's predecessor. They want to rely more and more on the cloud as time goes on. As long as latency is sub 20 ms, then VR sickness via latency won't be an issue.
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