The first version of the HoloLens could be history pending a renovation that would already be underway

Virtual Reality or Augmented Reality is one of the trends that are marked to suppose a before and after in the coming times. More and more brands are signing up for this segment and products related to this technology are common currency at technology fairs If we have even seen augmented reality applied in amusement parks.

In this sense from Microsoft they have been doing constant work for some time with the HoloLens, the proposal of those from Redmond with which to capture a prominent place in this world.A model with a lifetime that can be purchased by developers and that apparently would already have a set expiration date. An end that would serve to see a second generation of HoloLens arrive.

And the thing is that the rumours, as reported by the WBI, point to the end of production of the HoloLens A possibility that is given by statements made by Jacqueline Chang, Chief Financial Officer of Himax Technologies which, along with Intel, is one of the component suppliers for Microsoft glasses.

In these statements, the financial director Himax, affirmed that the decrease in the volume of orders of the company is due to the suspension of LCOS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) and WLO production to one of its most important in terms of Augmented Reality devices, as it has decided to end the life of one of its products. This customer, according to all indications, would be Microsoft and the affected product is clear: HoloLens.

Some statements that make more sense when combined with the fact that Intel would have reduced production of Intel Atom processors, one of the components that make up the HoloLens. Thus, two of the component suppliers for Microsoft's AR glasses would be cutting back on production.

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Does this mean that Microsoft is leaving Augmented Reality aside? Well, clearly not, especially because of the amount of time, money and work invested. This possible cessation would be due above all to the fact that the company would already be working on the creation of the HoloLens 2, a product that would arrive throughout 2019 when the technology was already more established."

We will therefore have to wait almost two years to meet the successors of the HoloLens. A time to see how the technology settles but also a perhaps excessive time to give advantage to its rivals.

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