Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented-reality headset is still half a decade away [update]

We’re on the precipice of the virtual reality future, but we’ll probably have to wait a few more years before augmented reality is a part of our daily lives.

The Microsoft HoloLens AR head-mounted display (HMD) is “really a five-year journey,” the company’s chief executive officer Satya Nadella said at Salesforce’s Dreamforce customer conference yesterday. This is likely a reference to Microsoft’s plan to slowly roll out and test the HoloLens in certain industries before making a push into the consumer space. This HMD is one of the Microsoft products that has people the most excited because of the incredible demos the tech powerhouse has shown off so far. The HoloLens is capable of superimposing interactive digital images on top of the real world in a way we’ve never seen before.