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Does this mean HoloLens is dead? HoloLens 3 was allegedly axed years ago already. I wonder what happens now to the enterprise customers.

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I always wondered what the enterprise customers were using it for. Is there some secret killer app or 4D excel I'm missing out on?

At an old workplace (Traditional engineering consultancy) we used it to show prospective and current customers walkthroughs of their projects.

Take a revit model, add some textures and you've got a great demo.

> I always wondered what the enterprise customers were using it for.

There are some military training research projects that I came across in a previous life. These VR apps haven't supplanted traditional PC-based training sims, though, although these are often based on commercial game engines rather than custom sims.

Hm, there's an idea.

Those annual mandatory trainings from HR. Things like "how to not harass coworkers", but now in immersive 3D.

The demo apps that microsoft shows probably are what they're using it for. If you look at the microsoft store for/on the HoloLens you'll see a bunch of training and communication apps.

HoloLens is a different category but it’s also been almost exclusively B2B based since HoloLens 2, which usually means there is a different support structure. No idea on the current status of the project/product, however.

* I used to work at Microsoft and I now work at a Microsoft subsidiary but I have no insight here other than what has been publicly stated.

Didn't Microsoft lay off the Hololens team last year?

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