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CES 2017: A look at Microsoft's VR headsets from Dell, Lenovo, HP, Acer, and 3Glasses

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NewsHubBack in October, Microsoft announced that its partners would be introducing a range of virtual reality headsets , which would be powered by Windows Holographic. At the time, those partners included Acer, Dell, HP, and Lenovo, but at WinHEC, another head-mounted display (HMD) was announced by 3Glasses.
At Microsoft’s Partner Showcase at CES 2017 today, I got to take a look at each of these five headsets. All of them were under glass cases, with the exception of the HMD that was made by 3Glasses.
Here are some photos:
And here’s what it looks like when I try to take a selfie of myself while wearing a VR headset that keeps me from seeing the actual camera.
Of course, while one HMD was out in the open for anyone to try on, it wasn’t actually connected to anything, so I wasn’t able to try out the actual experience.
Also, none of these devices have names yet (or at least Microsoft wasn’t willing to tell me), so for now, we’ll just have to call them ‚Acer HMD‘, ‚Dell HMD‘, etc.

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