22 PCWorld APRIL 2019NEWS
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phone AR is way more fun
Sorry, but I’d rather play with Pikachu than a hologram hummingbird. BY MICHAEL SIMONM
icrosoft’s HoloLens 2 (go.
pcworld.com/mhl2) is a
technically amazing device.
In a matter of minutes, the
device was comfortably strapped to my head,
my eyes were scanned, and a small
hummingbird was fluttering in front of my face
and “landing” on my outstretched hand.Then I looked to the right, and the
hummingbird disappeared. Microsoft made a
big deal of HoloLens’s two-fold increase in
field of vision (FOV) over the original version’s
(go.pcworld.com/mhlr), but it’s still small
enough where I was very aware of the edges
of the frame. It might look and feel like a VR
headset, but it doesn’t behave like one at all.