Microsoft teases HoloLens 2 then “Mixed Reality Cloud”

The Microsoft HoloLens is attainment somewhat long in the tooth, receiving ready to rejoice its second birthday in March 2018.

Microsoft has previously teased HoloLens 2.0 in July 2017, when it spoke around its fresh Holographic Processing Unit, which features an Al coprocessor to natively and flexibly appliance Deep Neural Networks happening the device itself.

Post on LinkedIn today, Microsoft Alex Kipman discovered about further around the use of all that power, saw the simulated intelligence will supply “superpowers completed space and time” and permit Microsoft to “build skills where people, places and things develop liberated of their physical location and be able to relate with their digital similar part.”

Specifically, the new HPU will permit HoloLens 2.0 to truly identify its atmosphere. Interestingly, despite the abundant extra powerful hardware in the device, Microsoft will also be taking more cloud processing to the device, by their new Mixed Reality Cloud.

Microsoft notes that they will trust cloud-assisted AI with Mixed Reality, permitting Microsoft to bring a persistent mixed reality experience by people, places, then things.

While Microsoft is presently the only company with a real Mixed Reality headphones on the market, they are predictable to face opposition from Apple, Magic Leap then Samsung in the close future, making a follow-up progressively overdue.