A representative of Microsoft introduces HoloLens technology during a release ceremony of world leading internet scientific and technological achievements at the 3rd World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, east China's Zhejiang Province, Nov. 16, 2016. (Xinhua/Xu Yu)
AR Headset HoloLens, Microsoft
Microsoft introduced its Augmented Reality (AR) HoloLens this year, a hologram-projecting headset that, with the help of multiple cameras, blends virtual models, environments and holograms with reality.
More appropriately referred to as a mixed reality device, the headset allows the wearer to interact with holograms and digital content overlayed on the real world.
Currently, a number of applications inlucidng Skype are already on Microsoft HoloLens.
"For us, the next big thing is mixed reality," said Microsoft executive vice president Harry Shum. "The integration of the virtual digital world and the physical real world."
