Microsoft HoloLens 2 Development price is at $3,500 (roughly Rs. 2,43,000) or $99 (roughly Rs. 6,900) per month.
Just days ahead of Microsoft Build 2019, the Redmond company has announced the HoloLens 2 Development Edition. The new move is targeted to enhance mixed reality (MR) developments, and it comes as an expansion of Microsoft’s Mixed Reality Developer Program that is touted to have attracted more than 20,000 developers over the past year. Microsoft has also revealed that there are 54 Azure regions across the globe and over 1.3 million developers are using Azure Cognitive Services — developing nearly 3,000 new bots each week.
The HoloLens 2 Development Edition is being provided to developers through the Mixed Reality Developer Programme. It can be availed at $3,500 (roughly Rs. 2,43,000) or $99 (roughly Rs. 6,900) per month and includes $500 (roughly Rs. 34,700) Azure credits and three-month free trials of Unity Pro and Unity PiXYZ Plugin for CAD data.
To recall, Microsoft unveiled the HoloLens 2 to the world at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 tradeshow in Barcelona back in February. The hardware of the regular HoloLens 2 is identical to its Development Edition, though the Azure and Unity benefits are specifically provided for developers building new MR solutions.
The HoloLens 2 has a diagonal field-of-view stands of 52 degrees, with maintaining the holographic density of 47 pixels per degree of sight. Microsoft has used its microelectromechanical system (MEMS) display technology that is claimed to offer the equivalent of a 2K display for each eye. Under the hood, there is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 SoC — alongside a custom-built Holographic Processing Unit.
„Bringing together HoloLens 2, Azure Mixed Reality Services, and Unity Pro, the most widely used real-time 3D development platform, makes it easy for developers to create professional mixed reality experiences using your industrial design data. The PiXYZ plugin gives you the tools to create real-time experiences using Computer Aided Drawing (CAD) or Building Information Management (BIM) data,“ said Julia White, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Azure, in a blog post.
