Looking at what the world's economy is atm It's ridiculous to think this will cost something above 750 USD. Baffling to see people thinking about 1.000 to 1.500USD here :shocked: .... If they price it THIS high It'll sell in the North American market for a while and remain an oddity elsewhere.
Sometimes profit can be made by lowering prices, aiming at a broader consumer base and increasing units sold. Sometimes profit can be made by going as far as giving stuff away (W10 anyone??).
Having said that, I hope Hololens will lower (from whatever price MS starts selling it), to something between 350 and 500USD... 399 USD would be a nice price tag that would make hololens possible to millions worldwide.
To those labeling this as 'wishful thinking' I say: If something is too expensive and I don't need it (and I don't NEED Hololens) I wont buy it.
If MS goes for the throat, pricing it betwen 1K and 1.5K USD, it'll be a fiasco greater then Google Glass.
I
will label that as wishful thinking (or maybe even a little delusional), and you
won't be buying it if you will only pay that much. Let's start with a computer, since there is one crammed in that little headset. Let's go with the base Surface Pro 4, just for kicks. There's $900 already, if I'm not mistaken. Waaayyy above your estimate. Plus, who knows how much whatever that projection technology costs. I baffles
me how you think $1-1.5k is baffling. That's already lower than some ultrabooks.
Also, on giving stuff away to make a profit, that doesn't ever really work on hardware. The cost of an OS to a company: software development time. The cost of a piece of hardware to a company: materials, manufacturing, hardware design and development time, and software development time again.
.... You know what, MS probably could have made a $400 hololens if they wanted. And it would have sucked. It would be slow and laggy (
huuuuge con when you're projecting dynamic holograms into your eyes... imagine if you turned your head and whatever screen you're reading this reply on took a second to spaz away to the side of your vision), heavy, bulky, ugly, have no useful amount of battery life or storage, etc. Then they'd
really have a problem with no one buying it and it would die even faster.
Wasn't Google Glass like $2k-ish for the dev edition?