The HoloLens development kit will cost $3,000 and will be available from the first quarter of 2016, Microsoft announced at a recent Windows 10 event.<\/p>\n
Microsoft used the event to show off a demonstration of the device it calls \u201cmixed reality gaming\u201d.<\/p>\n
A demo subject wearing the Project XRay headset ran through a game where (virtual) robots tore through stage dressing and attacked him.<\/p>\n
He returned fire with a virtual gauntlet that appeared around his hand which held a real controller.<\/p>\n
Microsoft also showed how entities in the virtual space interacted with real-world objects by having robots navigate around a couch.<\/p>\n
Explosions going off on the couch and pieces or robot flying all over the room seemed to bounce off the right surfaces.<\/p>\n
Microsoft said it will soon start taking applications from developers for the HoloLens development kit.<\/p>\n
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