With Hololens, Microsoft Is Learning From Google Glass's Failure

Where Google Glass failed, Hololens seems poised to succeed as a tool for the working man rather than a consumer headset for gamers.

Where Google Glass failed, Hololens seems poised to succeed as a tool for the working man rather than a consumer headset for gamers.

"The space in our cities is limited," says Andreas Shierenbeck, CEO of ThyssenKrupp Elevator, a company that builds and maintains elevators worldwide. He's speaking to a small audience in a room with panoramic views of lower Manhattan, 63 stories off the street. Naturally, he's talking about the need for more elevators in densely packed cities that want to squeeze more living and office quarters into unoccupied vertical spaces.

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