Why Microsoft could (and should) announce HoloLens 2 at MWC 2019
(Windows Phone Central)

Microsoft`s HoloLens 2 may finally bring truly-mobile holographic computing to the world. Microsoft is heading back to Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. The company`s event will take place on Sunday, February 24 – and, yes, it will be live-streamed. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Corporate Vice President Julia White, and Microsoft Technical Fellow Alex Kipman will be in attendance, which strongly hints at what Microsoft will reveal. Kipman worked on Microsoft`s Kinect sensor technology for Xbox. That tech was later integrated into what we now know as Microsoft HoloLens, another one of his projects. Kipman is fond of saying smartphones are `dead`, while talking up the future of holographic computing, so his attendance at Mobile World Congress seems ... interesting. However, there`s likely a good reason why a sequel to HoloLens may be revealed at an event focused on mobility. What we expect and know about Microsoft HoloLens 2 There are five main components that we...