Microsoft seems to tease HoloLens 2 in trippy video prior to MWC

It appears that there is a trailer next to Microsoft's HoloLens 2 and its full of flying chips and melting ice. Technical Fellow Alex Kipman, creator of HoloLens and head of Microsoft's mixed reality effort, tweeted tweet a video that seems to justify the next version of the AR headset. The video, which was spotted earlier by TechCrunch, is cryptic but ends with the date February 24, 2019.

Microsoft was already rumored to announce a new HoloLens headset at its Mobile World Congress event on February 24. CEO Satya Nadella is scheduled to star in with Julia White, a company manager in charge of Microsoft Azure and Kipman.

The original HoloLens AR headset was released in 2016 and made hologram-like 3D graphics in the real world in a self-contained package but has some technical boundaries. The next headset can improve things like field of view and bring more advanced controls as well as eye tracking. In November, Microsoft won a $ 480 million contract to supply the US Army with the HoloLens headset.

"We have many exciting things to talk about at MWC 2019," a Microsoft spokesman said.