Last year, Microsoft made its HoloLens Development Edition headset available to buy , priced at $3,000. Initially, developers and businesses interested in buying the device were required to have an ‘invite’ to do so, but in August, it dropped that requirement , and also introduced the $5,000 enterprise-focused HoloLens Commercial Suite. It’s since launched HoloLens in several new markets around the world, and will soon be making it available in China.
Microsoft didn’t reveal any details about its HoloLens sales as it reported its latest quarterly earnings yesterday , but it did give an indication of its sales performance at this week’s BETT conference, which focuses on IT in education.
As The Inquirer reports, Roger Walkden, Microsoft’s Commercial Lead for HoloLens in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said that « thousands » of the mixed reality headsets have been sold so far, and that seems to be in line with the company’s expectations.
« We’re not trying to sell hundreds of thousands or millions or anything, » he said. « It’s expensive, and it’s not in huge numbers. So we’re happy with the level of sales that we’ve got – I can’t tell you anything about the numbers, but it’s in thousands, not hundreds of thousands, and that’s fine.
