Hello everyone.
The Mixed Reality Forums here are no longer being used or maintained.
There are a few other places we would like to direct you to for support, both from Microsoft and from the community.
The first way we want to connect with you is our mixed reality developer program, which you can sign up for at https://aka.ms/IWantMR.
For technical questions, please use Stack Overflow, and tag your questions using either hololens or windows-mixed-reality.
If you want to join in discussions, please do so in the HoloDevelopers Slack, which you can join by going to https://aka.ms/holodevelopers, or in our Microsoft Tech Communities forums at https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/mixed-reality/ct-p/MicrosoftMixedReality.
And always feel free to hit us up on Twitter @MxdRealityDev.
The Mixed Reality Forums here are no longer being used or maintained.
There are a few other places we would like to direct you to for support, both from Microsoft and from the community.
The first way we want to connect with you is our mixed reality developer program, which you can sign up for at https://aka.ms/IWantMR.
For technical questions, please use Stack Overflow, and tag your questions using either hololens or windows-mixed-reality.
If you want to join in discussions, please do so in the HoloDevelopers Slack, which you can join by going to https://aka.ms/holodevelopers, or in our Microsoft Tech Communities forums at https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/mixed-reality/ct-p/MicrosoftMixedReality.
And always feel free to hit us up on Twitter @MxdRealityDev.
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The FOV definitely needs to increase. No question about it.
I just tried it at a demo in NYC and wow the field of view is sooo bad! It felt like it was the middle third of my real view horizontally and top half vertically and it just ruined any animation near the edges of the view...
What the VR HMD companies have proven, is that you live by content for your HMD, and die by the lack of content for that HMD. That entails providing developer support, and VR HMD companies have put a lot of effort in supporting developers. In contract to that, Microsoft doesn't provide much developer support in this forum, even though it is supposed to be a developer forum. If people/companies, who/which invest in hololens to develop apps and content for it, get little to no support, will likely drop it as soon as another AR HMD comes to market for which there is actual developer support. Hololens, which costs 3K as a developer edition AR HMD, should provide more support to developers, as it isn't cheap, and those who invest in it, will be helping drive the future of Hololens. Besides Meta, there are other AR HMDs that will be hitting the market in 2017. Microsoft should spend more time helping developers because next year there will be competition from AR HMDs with 100 to 120 degree H-FOV, which can display black pixels.