I've also found that the device itself becomes uncomfortable after wearing it for a short period. I have however worn it for more than 2 hours in a row once or twice.
My niece (6 years) loved it so much she kept playing with it for hours also; She played Roboraid or just placed holograms in the living room like little dolls. Took me 10 minutes to clean up :-).
Not everybody I've had try it, were as impressed, and I think most people I've shown it to, think of it as a gimmick.
I don't think a lot of 'lenses will find their way under the Christmas tree this year. Too expensive. But if they got the price down around the cost of an iPad, it would blow the success of iPad away -- Even in the 'lense's current form...
It is another one of those things that indicate that Microsoft is on the right path as a tech company. Now, where is Apple's AR product?
Apple has disappointed me a bit lately, but I definitely think AR makes more sense for Apple than trying to build a car.
Microsoft may have some advantage in that they've done a lot research in the field of 3D scanning and have lots of experience with Kinect, though.
I want a great AR system, but no such device exists. I've had a Hololens for about 3 months now, on loan from a client that asked me to build an app for them. If Hololens is at all any indication of the current state of the art (and Magic Leap is officially on its sixth year of childishly teasing "we got a secret and we ain't telling"), then this tech is easily 5 years away from being consumer ready. This is not even to the usability level of the Oculus DK1 yet. There are zero usable apps because there is zero way to usably interact with apps. The Hololens is an incredible feat of engineering. But I'll stick to VR for now. It's usable now and there are customers now.
Wouldn't it just be easier to disable uMatrix temporarily for his site? That being said the site just brings up an error page for me too.