How Patience is Improving HoloLens

With renewed focus, under CEO Satya Nadella’s leadership, Microsoft is focusing on longer-term objectives. I would argue that patience is paying off for HoloLens, Microsoft Teams, Surface and perhaps for Microsoft's AI and quantum computing initiatives.

 Case in point is the recent announcement, per Bloomberg, that Microsoft won a $480 million contract from the U.S. Army to supply augmented reality headsets based on its HoloLens technology. The deal may lead to deployment of up to 100,000 HoloLens devices.

Microsoft announced HoloLens in January 2015 during the Windows 10 launch event in Redmond, Wash. Over a year later, in March 2016, a pre-production version of the HoloLens development kit shipped in the U.S. and Canada. In October of that year, Microsoft expanded availability to include Australia, Ireland, France, Germany, New Zealand, and the U.K. Throughout 2017 and 2018, Microsoft continued to showcase enterprise-focused HoloLens scenarios and engage developers in larger organizations who were interested in developing business-specific applications.

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