HoloLens 2 is here, and while we may not be quite the target audience Microsoft has in mind, you'll forgive us if we get excited about the mixed-reality headset all the same. The second-generation AR ...

The experience created by the HoloLens 2 is the closest thing to visible magic the tech industry has ever produced. I'm not sure whether to describe my experience with it earlier this week as ...

One of the first things you notice when you put on Microsoft's HoloLens 2, revealed to the world at Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona, is that it's lighter and less bulky than the first ...

Microsoft's AR headset still feels like a taste of a future yet to come -- and reminds me what the future still needs to do. Scott Stein Editor at Large I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009.

Putting computers on people's faces was supposed to unlock a new era of extended reality (XR), but this technology has struggled to expand beyond niche use cases. Microsoft initially pitched HoloLens ...

Microsoft's Alex Kipman introduces the HoloLens 2 product at an event at Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona. Jeremy Kaplan / Digital Trends Julia White, Microsoft corporate vice president for ...

Carl Ledbetter simply can’t help himself. The cheery director of design at Microsoft, who leads the design of the company’s Xbox game consoles and HoloLens mixed reality headsets, is in a particularly ...

If you ask Alex Kipman to name the most significant advancement in the brand-new version of HoloLens, Microsoft’s mixed-reality headset, he’ll say the answer is yes. It's not an evasion of the ...

At $3,500 apiece, Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 may not be the transformational consumer device we were all hoping to buy. But the company addressed many of the shortcomings of the original HoloLens at the ...

Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, so he's always had a connection to the tech world. As an editor at large at CNET, he wrote about Apple, Microsoft, VR, video games and ...

Microsoft announced to enterprise partners last week that it’s discontinuing its latest AR headset, HoloLens 2, and pulling the plug on support updates at the end of 2027, leaving many to question ...