The news surrounding HoloLens lately has not been positive. Microsoft has encountered issues in getting its augmented reality technology to work well enough to satisfy the U.S. Army – with which it has a contract worth $22 billion for headsets using some of the HoloLens technology. Microsoft’s decision to focus HoloLens on the enterprise market, not the consumer one, reportedly has caused rifts inside the team and led, at least in part, to hundreds of those working on HoloLens to leave Microsoft and join other AR/VR companies. While Microsoft has shown off how its Azure-powered Mesh augmented-reality platform could fit into its “enterprise metaverse” vision, at this point, we’re still waiting for a preview of the Mesh for Teams experience that involves avatars interacting in shared virtual situations.
