Microsoft is working on its second generation HoloLens headset and the company has announced few details about the device. The next generation HoloLens will come with AI chip. The company
Just for a quick recap, Microsoft has launched HoloLens, augmented reality headset in 2015. It contains a custom multiprocessor called the Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) that is responsible for processing the information coming from all of the on-board sensors, including Microsoft’s custom time-of-flight depth sensor, head-tracking cameras, the inertial measurement unit (IMU), and the infrared camera. The HPU is part of what makes HoloLens the world’s first–and still only–fully self-contained holographic computer.
Harry Shum, executive vice president of our Artificial Intelligence and Research Group announced in a keynote speech at CVPR 2017 that the second version of the HPU, currently under development, will incorporate an AI coprocessor to natively and flexibly implement DNNs. The chip supports a wide variety of layer types, fully programmable by us. The AI coprocessor is designed to work in the next version of HoloLens, running continuously, off the HoloLens battery.