Microsoft's HoloLens is new, improved, and still has big problems

Microsoft's HoloLens is the kind of thing that science fiction has been preparing us for for decades. From the moment I saw it, I knew exactly what I wanted it to do: project a heads-up display around real life, let me play with imaginary toys and sculpt in holograms, produce weird optical illusions with its magical power to rewrite reality. Unsurprisingly, these are expectations that no product in 2015 could possibly live up to. Within carefully managed conditions, HoloLens is one of the most amazing pieces of tech I've seen. But for all its potential brilliance, it's still struggling hard — and failing — to break down the walls between fantasy and reality.

I wasn't able to see HoloLens in January, but from what I can tell, the...

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