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HoloLens Development Edition Available for Pre-Order

Microsoft taking orders for the US$3000 kit now; shipping in March.

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Microsoft has announced the HoloLens Development Edition is available to pre-order now. Microsoft is seeking a wide range of developers to hop on board and begin creating software for its augmented reality headset and is currently taking applications from Windows Insiders in the United States (including Puerto Rico) and Canada.

HoloLens chief and Windows Apps Studio VP Kudo Tsunoda explained Microsoft is committed to providing the development community with the best experience possible and confirmed the HoloLens Development Edition will ship with all the documentation developers will require and a pile of tutorial videos. Microsoft will also provide a free portfolio of holographic experiences it hopes will illustrate what HoloLens is capable of and inspire developers to create their own 3D content. These experiences include a HoloLens version of Skype and HoloStudio (a program designed to allow people to design in 3D at real-world scale), but also several games. Fragments is a crime drama designed to allow players to investigate crimes that are seemingly occurring in their own living rooms, Young Conker is a platform game that uses rooms in your home as the levels themselves, and RoboRaid is a first-person shooter that will see enemies appearing to crash through the walls of your house.

The Microsoft HoloLens Development Edition will ship before the end of March, 2016. Developers can visit www.HoloLens.com to apply for the USD$3,000 kit.
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During an event last month Microsoft confirmed HoloLens users can expect the battery to last just over five hours, the device is totally wireless, and it will be able to natively run any universal application that's compatible with Windows 10.

For more on Microsoft's AR headset, check out our hands-on impressions of Minecraft for HoloLens.
Luke is Games Editor at IGN's Sydney office. You can find him on Twitter @MrLukeReilly.

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