[LCDninja]

In contrast to Vive, Gear & Oculus - I'm wondering if this might be an opportunity for business VR application developers? Depending on the capabilities of the device, there might be opportunities to develop operational, health & safety and operational training solutions.

Is anyone out there experimenting with HoloLens development?

[josephpmay]

Not Hololens, but DQRI has a "hardhat" with similar features that has already been deployed in industrial environments to do exactly as you describe. Companies that are using it for training have found a huge decrease in error rates while actually getting employees up to speed faster.

[LCDninja]

Thanks for the heads up - I'll check it out!

[sbuttgereit]

I think this is one area where there can be much promise. Being able to overlay timely and relevant information over the environment, in a way that doesn't require high degrees of pro-active intervention by the user, could help reduce errors and efficiency drains due to context switching in a number of environments. I'm thinking warehouse operations where doing robot stuff like Amazon is too far beyond economic reach, yet you still have to interact with data for directions and work tasking. There are other areas where things like this are intriguing. So long as the device can be made to be otherwise unobtrusive enough, have sufficient power for running full shifts, and are rugged enough, I think there is good potential.

Something I'm taking a look at now.

[yarou]

I think it'd be great for geographically distributed teams as well. Having a surrogate or "virtual avatar" with accurate facial capture for meetings is definitely a use case for business VR developers.