In 2015, Microsoft revealed HoloLens, what it called a “mixed-reality” headset that could have broad application in the consumer market, including in the world of video games. Some early demos were ...

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Just in case you don't, it was Microsoft's augmented reality headset, announced in 2015 and shown off at that year's E3 with an interactive Halo experience, a stage demo of Minecraft, and a whole lot ...

Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, so he's always had a connection to the tech world. As an editor at large at CNET, he wrote about Apple, Microsoft, VR, video games and ...

Minecraft isn’t just that game your kids can’t stop talking about, it’s also a key piece of Microsoft’s most exciting new technology Microsoft chief executive officer Satya Nadella has confirmed in an ...

There aren’t a lot of video game experiences we can easily recreate in the physical realm. You’ll quickly find that jumping on mushrooms in the real world doesn’t have nearly the same appeal as it ...

During Microsoft’s Build conference today in San Francisco, the company officially announced a partnership with Unity Technologies–maker of the Unity game engine–related to the exciting-looking ...

Microsoft has unveiled the successor to its mixed reality headset HoloLens. HoloLens 2 took centre stage at a press event around Mobile World Congress Barcelona this weekend, demonstrated by Microsoft ...

Back at last year’s E3, Microsoft unveiled the HoloLens, a “mixed reality” headset that projects holograms into the real world around you. They demonstrated it by showing somebody interacting with an ...

You can't call HoloLens 2 a gaming platform, but Microsoft is at least laying the groundwork. Epic Games has announced that it's adding HoloLens support to Unreal Engine 4, the technology that powers ...

Microsoft Technical Fellow and HoloLens founder Alex Kipman made that announcement during the debut of the HoloLens2 at Mobile World Congress on February 24. HoloLens apps are available from the ...