Kudo Tsunoda shows off first dev kit for HoloLens at Build 2016.
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Microsoft starts shipping its HoloLens augmented reality development kits

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Microsoft said it has begun shipping hardware development kits for its HoloLens augmented reality glasses today.

Kudo Tsunoda and Alex Kipman, two of the leaders who spearheaded the project, came out onstage to announce the shipments at the Microsoft Build 2016 conference in San Francisco this morning. Microsoft is staking its claim in augmented reality for a wide range of applications, from games to education, while rivals such as Facebook are pushing the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. Combined, augmented reality and virtual reality are expected to be a $120 billion market by 2020, according to tech adviser Digi-Capital.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.