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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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Purchasing development version of Hololens
Hello everyone,
My Hololens purchase would be expired tomorrow, I am thinking whether or not I should buy it for development. $4000 CAD is a huge investment for me.
I am a beginner programmer without any working knowledge on programming. I only done a few small android development project (weather & movie & 2D platform games).
Can anyone advise whether I should invest into hololens or just use the emulator?
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Wait for another year or may be till next holidays 2017!!!
@Kapo I would agree with @HoloDevices, maybe wait a year until the price drops. I assume they will once out of development phase. If you're really interested in AR you can do the tutorials and see if it would be up your alley, but a day is a short period. Maybe look at an oculus and start with those if money is an issue. I will say this, however, I am going to be a sophomore in college(maybe you call it university) with only one year of any programming experience and I've made an app for a company that they are using as a demo app. Yes, it is not anything amazing, but I made it. None the less I'm proud to have a finished project at the end of this summer. I'm not going to say it's hard just takes time to learn. Hope this helps with your decision.
Thanks for replying, I think this is a good advice that I should wait until next year.
I will keep learning hololens development until I feel comfortable to make an app for it.
Then I will consider purchasing one.