Microsoft's layoff of 10,000 employees may pause the company's HoloLens and headset-based projects, with the entire teams working on mixed reality and virtual reality products decimated by the HR axe.

I cannot watch 3D movies, in a theater nor at home, because I get severe eyestrain which lasts for days afterward. My eyes have to focus on a spot at a different distance from what my eyes are looking ...

Microsoft has discontinued production of the HoloLens 2, apparently ending its love affair with its augmented-reality headset and perhaps the metaverse in general. UploadVR cited a Microsoft ...

The mixed-reality headset is currently out of stock or back-ordered at most retailers, and by 2028, its software won't be supported. Alternatives from Apple or Meta are better bets for now. "Microsoft ...

It looks like Microsoft’s AR platform HoloLens is being sent to a nice tech farm upstate. The company just announced that it’s discontinuing production of its HoloLens 2 headset, according to ...

Microsoft Technical fellow and father of the HoloLens Alex Kipman is leaving the company after 21 years. Kipman's departure is part of -- or maybe more likely, the cause of -- yet another reorg in ...

The software maker sheds light on the secretive workings of the ambitious holographic headset -- by making us develop an app in real time. Nick Statt was a staff reporter for CNET News covering ...

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 ...

Microsoft's AR headset still feels like a taste of a future yet to come -- and reminds me what the future still needs to do. Scott Stein Editor at Large I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009.

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Carl Ledbetter simply can’t help himself. The cheery director of design at Microsoft, who leads the design of the company’s Xbox game consoles and HoloLens mixed reality headsets, is in a particularly ...

Alex Kipman, Microsoft technical fellow, led the company’s HoloLens mixed reality team. (File Photo) Microsoft is splitting its HoloLens mixed reality group and parting ways with Alex Kipman, the ...