San Francisco

Microsoft showed off its HoloLens virtual reality headset here at its Build developer conference, and if its live demo is anything to go by, the thing is mind blowing, and practically ready for market.

It's ready enough that Microsoft says it has brought hundreds of HoloLens headsets down to San Francisco for the conference, enough that all of the attendees should be able to try it out.

This canned photo is probably fake fake reality, but it's not very different from the real fake reality that HoloLens will bring us.

Which of course I plan to do, and report back to you with a "hands on" preview just as soon as I can.

In the meantime, I can report that in a live demo that must have lasted half an hour, the HoloLens ran flawlessly, and showed capabilities that just 100 days ago when the HoloLens was first announced, could only be showed as a video preview.