On February 3, local time, Business Insider reported on problems and changes in Microsoft’s HoloLens project — saying plans for HoloLens 3 were canceled last year, describing the “chaos and strategic uncertainty” of the HoloLens project and revealing Microsoft and Samsung. Collaboration on new mixed reality (MR) devices. Then just a day later, HoloLens head Alex Kipman rebutted it on Twitter.
But instead of flinching, Business Insider doubled down in a new report — Microsoft ‘clearly’ cancels Hololens 3. Kipman’s description of the situation was deemed complete nonsense, a source of direct knowledge of the product roadmap.
Hi @akipman if that is true, well we need a waterproof, w/ thermal sights derivative, for use in search and rescue here in Norway will be useful for our @rodekorsnorge and tbh for a lot of ppl venturing outside in winter. Just don’t terminate hololens!
— Patricio Lobos (@strandedinoslo) February 3, 2022
Unequivocally, Calypso was canceled,” the source said. Everyone who worked on it has been assigned to other projects or has left the company. Microsoft may use HoloLens 2 to put lipstick on another version of the pig, but it’s not Calypso.
Sources describe Calypso as the codename for the scrapped HoloLens 3 project, the only planned future version of the MR headset designed to function as a completely separate computer.
Business Insider has revealed more about the Samsung /Microsoft project in a new report, codenamed Project Bondi, and its purpose is basically to have a set of screens in a headset, with a Samsung phone in your pocket operating like a computer, Similar to the rumored Apple’s MR headset
Of course, both sides could be right in this debate, with the exception of Project Calypso, and possibly even Samsung/Microsoft’s Project Bondi — HoloLens 3. While Microsoft’s military version of the HoloLens is said to be behind schedule, it’s still a work in progress, though perhaps no one other than Alex Kipman would say it’s playing great.