Hololens at CNN & other places.

What we're waiting for is for the news to start going viral. It hasn't yet.

This is still an open secret. 


CNN


Kim Komando

(If you aren't familiar with Kim Komando, she has a lot of fans a tech website, and has a syndicated radio show. This is fertile ground for attention.)

Microsoft's next-gen HoloLens

Not to be outdone by all the crazy smartphone hoopla, Microsoft also unveiled the HoloLens 2, it's follow up to the "mixed reality" glasses it announced in 2015. Like its predecessor and other augmented reality gadgets, the HoloLens 2 superimposes computer-generated images on the real world, delivering one-of-a-kind experiences. Think Iron-Man/Tony Stark-like interactions with your immediate surroundings, that's how cool and practical Mixed Reality could be.

Improving on the tech introduced by the first HoloLens, the HoloLens 2 is more powerful, better-balanced, efficient and Microsoft managed to double its field of view. Its new design with improved "thermal management" also makes it more comfortable to wear with extended use, even with users who wear glasses.

Unfortunately, the HoloLens 2 is still priced out of the regular consumer's range. Tagged at $3,500, it's still aimed at large businesses and the military. Hopefully, the HoloLens 3 will be primed for mass adoption and its price will finally be within reach of you and me,
Game Reactor

"I'm really excited to see what people end up doing with the product," Han admits. "But it's very clear that from our customer and market signal perspective we're really focused on the first-line and task workers. Look, people are going to dream with this thing, and that's really the most exciting part of it, people are going to tell us what they want to go and do, and I think the future for mixed reality and these type of devices is very promising."

Gaming and consumer versions will happen. (They made that clear during the presentation, and clearly there is interest.)

Turner Building Streaming Service

Recode

Turner wants to sell streaming subscriptions to its channels, including TNT, CNN and Cartoon Planet, directly to consumers.

For years and years, your boss [Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes] said he didn’t see real evidence of cord-cutters, or broadband-only homes.

Now they’re showing up.

Now there’s a debate about whether you’re seeing cord-cutters, cord-shavers or cord-nevers.

I think it’s a little bit of everything. It would be naive of us to think that the next generation, the early twentysomethings, they’re going to consume multichannel TV in the way that previous generations have.

We’re reinventing our company from the inside out. And we’re remodeling it when the plane is up in the air. We have to go from being a wholesale, linear cable TV company to being a consumer-focused, consumer-centric company.