Microsoft's HoloLens partnerships show that augmented reality can be boring, too

Microsoft's HoloLens headset starts shipping to developers today with a price tag of $3,000, but early versions of the device are already being used by a handful of corporations around the globe. We've seen some neat uses of the augmented reality technology from these third parties in the past — for instance, a NASA Jet Propulsion Lab partnership that brings Mars to life and a slick-looking human anatomy demo with Case Western Reserve University.

Microsoft itself has created even more exciting applications, like a HoloLens version of Minecraft that transforms a room into a living, breathing pixel world you can interact with using your fingers. But beyond these demos shown off onstage at Microsoft's conferences, the HoloLens commercial...

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