Anyone who has ever tried out HoloLens (which I have) would know just how insane a waste of taxpayer money this is. I got mine for free, and I still couldn't find any good uses for it. And I'm a techie.

This is the prime example of why taxpayers in the United States do not trust the government to spend their taxes wisely _at all_.

I've briefly tried the IVAS system on, and it seemed pretty obviously useful. I mean, HUDs are basically just assumed to already exist in hollywood movies. It doesn't seem like that complex or arcane a product to me.

We couldn't defeat a handful of semi-literate mujahedeen with little more than Kalashnikovs after paying several trillion dollars, laying down several thousand lives, and spending 20 years on the ground. Just on this basis alone, we don't need "IVAS" or whatever, and we especially don't need it for 22 billion dollars, and _especially_ when we're already nearly 30 trillion dollars in debt. This is insane and pointless boondoggle and nobody will be using this shit in any kind of an actual combat scenario. I'd like the heads of those who approved this to be propped up on pikes outside The Pentagon (in Minecraft).

I also get the impression that HoloLens is in a particularly awkward spot right now. It was built on/for a tech stack (Windows Core OS and UWP) that is more-or-less dead now, so there is a great deal of uncertainty about its future.

And that's how you get this: https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1455624165201887234

It's just basically a game of buzzword bingo in straight corporatese. I doubt even his underlings understand what he was trying to say, let alone the public. Anyone contemplating an MSFT offer should watch this and turn it down just on the basis of this cringe alone.

Yeah, there are certain divisions/teams/products within Microsoft where I have to work really hard to read between the lines of their PR gobbledygook. Basically the further away from Developer Division, the harder they are to understand.

Fast forward 5, 10, 15 years, $22B can buy a whole lot more battlespace capability in the direction of Tesla's Dojo D1 humanoid bot effort for U. S. Army than all of the world's most valued Microsoft HoloLens product stack has to offer.

For $22b you can buy 2 nuclear subs or almost 2 new carriers.