Hardhat Accessory for HoloLens: Early demand stats by country and industry

Full article - https://www.vgis.io/2018/01/04/hardhat-accessory-hololens-buying/

In the late summer of 2017, the development team behind the GIS visualization platform vGIS felt pressure from their clients to provide a hardhat-compatible accessory for Microsoft HoloLens. Most industrial environments mandate that all personnel must wear personal protective equipment (PPE) at all times. No matter how useful the HoloLens software might have been, without PPE compatibility, it simply couldn’t be used outside the lab. With no hardhat-compatible devices available on the market, the vGIS team designed its own solution to address the issue.

In November 2017, we published a short article about the vGIS hardhat solution on our blog, and we immediately received a wave of requests from other HoloLens developers who found themselves in the same situation. So, we decided to make our solution available to others.

In less than two months, between November 2017 and January 2018, we received approximately 500 inquiries about the hardhat adapter. Although this is a relatively modest number by the standards of consumer electronics, the high volume of requests has allowed us to track fascinating statistics about the various existing HoloLens development activities and the locations of the most prominent development centers.

See compiled statistics at https://www.vgis.io/2018/01/04/hardhat-accessory-hololens-buying/