Microsoft HoloLens, known in development as Project Baraboo, is a pair of intelligent glasses of mixed reality developed and manufactured by Microsoft. HoloLens gained popularity for being one of the first computers with Windows Mixed Reality platform under the Windows 10 operating system. HoloLens can trace their lineage to Kinect, a complement to the Microsoft Xbox game console that was introduced in 2010.
The pre-production version of HoloLens, the Development Edition, was sent on March 30, 2016 and is aimed at developers in the United States and Canada for a list price of $ 3000. Samsung and Asus have extended an offer to Microsoft for help produce their own mixed reality products, in collaboration with Microsoft, around the concept and hardware in HoloLens. On October 12, 2016, Microsoft announced the global expansion of HoloLens and announced that HoloLens would be available to preorder in Australia, Ireland, France, Germany, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. There is also a Commercial Suite (similar to a professional Windows edition), with business features, such as Bitlocker security. The Suite sells for $ 5,000.