First Ring Daily Live: Hololens Goes Thousands

On this live episode of First Ring Daily, Brad is still thinking about airplanes, Paul has some performance, and it’s earnings season.

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  • 6494

    27 January, 2017 - 1:20 pm

    <p>Are you still going to broadcast live today?</p>
    <p>&nbsp;</p>

    • 49

      Premium Member
      27 January, 2017 - 5:00 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#39034">In reply to </a><a href="../../../users/ilovemissy85">ilovemissy85</a><a href="#39034">:</a></em></blockquote>
      <p>We did, it’s at 1pm ET on Fridays.</p>

  • 6494

    27 January, 2017 - 1:20 pm

    <p>I just see two triangles dancing in tandem.</p>

  • 5767

    27 January, 2017 - 2:02 pm

    <p>Is there any reason for Paul’s snarky take on the HoloLens devkit sales? They’ve sold thousands of them to developers, of course that’s a good number. Why the snark Paul, you know this is not the consumer edition yet.</p>

  • 277

    Premium Member
    28 January, 2017 - 1:15 pm

    <p>Without the 1TB free storage, I think there would be a lot fewer consumers on O365.</p>

  • 5485

    29 January, 2017 - 3:46 pm

    <p>Microsoft announced Hololens in January 2015. I think it is quite clear that the reason was just one … to be in the tech news.&nbsp;Two years later, there is not still a line of sight about when and how this will come to the public. I bet that it will not be this year … and … who knows.</p>
    <p>Some people can shell thousands of dollars for the privilege a year or so later. You know people that find say buying a $2500 PC that easily goes 4 years of use and some more a really expensive experience yet …</p>
    <p>I find this practice misleading the general public about how advanced is a company technologically … it looks like propaganda.</p>
    <p>Would it just more ethical, stay quiet, develop it internally, announce it and release in the same day the devkit, 6 months later, release to the public in a robust state? Than iterate?</p>
    <p>There is a company that also pulled this kind of move, Google and its Google glasses.</p>
    <p>Will this be another project Natal but at a much larger scale, Windows 10 scale? Its marketing campaign was fabulous and lead to more than&nbsp;23 million Kinect units (XBOX scale) … more than Surface … For me it was one of the greatest tech blunder of all times.</p>
    <p>The units never worked fundamentally as advertised for instance still and sold a large number of units (In know I know, MS is not very good at advertising, I wonder I many more it would be if they were). I guess that some might consider it the best sale ever considering. &nbsp;But who cares right?</p>
    <p>How is the&nbsp;Ink going? Doing more and more with it?</p>
    <p>&nbsp;</p>

    • 5842

      31 January, 2017 - 8:12 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#39268">In reply to </a><a href="../../../users/nbplopes">nbplopes</a><a href="#39268">:</a></em></blockquote>
      <p>Hololens is incredible. I tried it in Microsoft store and was blown away. I do not think that MS should have kept it quiet. Maybe from marketing perspective everything looks evil, sad and pathetic but technically it is very impressive. I would buy one jut to play with it if it would cost below 1K</p>

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