I recently ordered and received a developer edition of Microsoft’s Hololens. This is me looking goofy wearing it at the USV office:TL;DR: the Hololens is a well executed preview of an amazing augmented reality future. Compared to the Vive and Oculus (VR, I know the difference) the Hololens ships fully ready to go. Unbox, put on your head and go. It even arrived with its batteries charged. Nothing to download onto a separate computer. No cables for tethering. Just put the Hololens on and go. S...

I recently ordered and received a developer edition of Microsoft’s Hololens. This is me looking goofy wearing it at the USV office:TL;DR: the Hololens is a well executed preview of an amazing augmented reality future. Compared to the Vive and Oculus (VR, I know the difference) the Hololens ships fully ready to go. Unbox, put on your head and go. It even arrived with its batteries charged. Nothing to download onto a separate computer. No cables for tethering. Just put the Hololens on and go. S...

I can still remember the first time that I experienced the web, which was on a workstation in a lab at MIT in late 1993 (Mosaic had come out in January of that year). The experience of easily accessing remote content and navigating from one site to another simply by clicking on a link was transformative. I remember how for several years after that there was a stark difference in attitude about the potential of the web between people who had experienced it and those who had only read about it ...

I can still remember the first time that I experienced the web, which was on a workstation in a lab at MIT in late 1993 (Mosaic had come out in January of that year). The experience of easily accessing remote content and navigating from one site to another simply by clicking on a link was transformative. I remember how for several years after that there was a stark difference in attitude about the potential of the web between people who had experienced it and those who had only read about it ...