The HoloLens, Microsoft's take on a virtual reality headset, wasn't built to play games. It places holographic images in the user's physical environment—the kind of augmented reality you've been hearing a lot about lately in relation to Pokemon Go. But Hololens is a workhorse, and Microsoft is trying to steer it toward work environments with a heavy focus on models.

Think construction and architecture. The HoloLens could allow a construction company to examine a mockup before it's actually built, with the potential to catch design flaws before they show up in real life.

Wearing a HoloLens takes a significant amount of headspace.

There are some extra barriers of extra here, of course, in addition to actually building the software to see a would-be building in AR. You've got to make sure your in-the-field holographic headset is also compatible with construction hardhats, and hopefully as strong as shatter-proof construction goggles. The HoloLens is bulky and not as strong as those goggles, at least in its current version.

Microsoft has more plans for the HoloLens beyond just the construction industry. At the premier of the WarCraft movie, the HoloLens allowed filmgoers to meet the orcs at the core of the story. But "[w]e're going to want to see HoloLens improve [as a construction aid]," a construction executive tells the MIT Technology Review. "It's a leap over what we were doing before. It's not just a new toy."

Source: MIT Technology Review

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