HoloLens 2.0 will include AI capabilities

There will be a Microsoft HoloLens 2, and it will be smarter than ever.

During a speech at the 2017 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) on Sunday, Microsoft artificial intelligence and research group executive Harry Shum outlined plans to incorporate artificial intelligence into the mixed-reality headset.

To do so, Microsoft is building its own silicon, a brand-new AI co-processor that will be incorporated into the next version of the HoloLen's Holographic Processing Unit (HPU).

Microsoft's HoloLens is unusual in the virtual and augmented (or mixed) reality space in that it's stand-alone Windows 10 PC that blends the real world you see through the HoloLens visor with a 3D one that's projected in front of your eyes.  Read more...