{"id":92889,"date":"2019-05-02T22:57:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/341967"},"modified":"2019-05-02T22:57:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T22:57:00","slug":"microsoft-announces-hololens-2-development-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/02\/microsoft-announces-hololens-2-development-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft announces HoloLens 2 Development Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief: <\/strong>Microsoft has announced a version of its upcoming mixed reality HoloLens 2&nbsp;headset geared toward developers but, as <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/05\/02\/microsoft-announces-the-hololens-2-development-edition\/\">TechCrunch<\/a> points out, the actual hardware in the HoloLens 2 Development Edition isn\u2019t different than what was announced earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Microsoft has included some extras in the package it hopes will appeal to developers while also offering devs the option to pay for the $3,500 headset in monthly payments.<\/p>\n<p>The HoloLens 2 Development Edition comes with $500 in Azure credits and three-month long trials for both Unity Pro and the Unity PiXYZ program. While the HoloLens 2 Development Edition is the same price as the version that Microsoft announced earlier this year, the dev-focused kit comes with the option to pay in monthly payments of $99 rather than all at once. Pre-orders for this version of the HoloLens 2 are limited to devs enrolled in the Microsoft Mixed Reality Developer Program as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>XRDC 2019 is looking for speakers!&nbsp;<a data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xrdconf.com\/conference\/c4p\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Submit your talk here.<\/a>&nbsp;(XRDC and Gamasutra are UBM Americas brands.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: Microsoft has announced a version of its upcoming mixed reality HoloLens 2&nbsp;headset geared toward developers but, as TechCrunch points out, the actual hardware in the HoloLens 2 Development Edition isn\u2019t different than what was announced earlier this year. Instead, Microsoft has included some extras in the package it hopes will appeal to developers while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}