Recently, Microsoft announced the HoloLens 2 Development Edition. The new release is aimed at enhancing mixed reality (MR) developments, and it comes as an expansion of Microsoft's Mixed Reality Developer Program.
The Development Edition will be available at $3,500 or $99 per month and includes $500 Azure credits and 3 month free trials of Unity Pro and Unity PiXYZ Plugin for CAD data.
Source: Microsoft
To buy the Development Edition, buyers need to join the Microsoft Mixed Reality Developer Program and those who already have pre-ordered the HoloLens 2 standard edition will be able to change their order later this year.
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Microsoft is making it easier to create for HoloLens 2 with the HoloLens 2 Development Edition, which provides the community of mixed- reality developers with access to solutions to help them build and run mixed-reality experiences across a range of devices."
wrote the company.
Alongside the launch of the development edition, Microsoft also revealed that Unreal Engine 4 support will become available for HoloLens 2 before the end of May. This will allow developers to take advantage of native platform integration to create augmented-reality and virtual-reality experiences using Unreal Engine 4.