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HoloLens 2 Development Edition Financing is now available in the United States

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Jbmcculloch
Former Employee
Mar 26, 2021

HoloLens 2 Development Edition Financing is now available in the United States 

 

 

We are excited to announce financing availability for HoloLens 2 Development Edition in the United States starting March 25, 2021. Financing in other regions is not available.
 
During your purchase experience via Microsoft Store, customers will have the option to get started with the financing process under the “add to cart” button.

 

Customers will have the option of financing at different lengths, from 18 to 36 months with each financing option to include 0% interest. 

 

 

 

 

Get started building mixed reality solutions

 

HoloLens 2 Development Edition comes with the following benefits:

 

HoloLens 2 Development Edition1

Value (MSRP; in USD)

HoloLens 2 device

$3,500

Azure credits

$500

3-month Unity Pro license2

$450

3-month Pixyz Plugin license3

$300

Total Development Edition Value

$4,750

Total cost of Development Edition

$3,500
1 Available in the US, Canada, Germany, France, the UK, Ireland, Ireland, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Italy
2 Based on Unity Pro price of $150 per month
3 Based on Pixyz Plugin annual price of $1,150 per year

 

HoloLens 2 Development Edition costs $3,500 and combines the capabilities of HoloLens 2 with https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/mixed-reality/, https://store.unity.com/products/unity-pro, and https://unity.com/products/pixyz to empower developers to build interactive experiences and render 3D holographic content with people, places, and things. The included Unity Pro and Pixyz Plugin 3-month trials provide developers a comprehensive toolset to create and deploy immersive and engaging mixed reality experiences. With an intuitive UI and toolset, rich interactivity, and true flexibility, Unity is the most versatile and widely used real-time 3D creative development platform for visualizing products and building interactive and virtual experiences.

 

With the recent announcement of https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/mesh?activetab=pivot%3aprimaryr7 and the upcoming release of the Microsoft Mesh SDK, developers will be able to build even more immersive mixed reality applications that are multiuser and cross-platform with HoloLens 2 Development Edition. Learn more about the Microsoft Mesh building blocks by reading our recent blog post, Microsoft Mesh – A Technical Overview.

 

We look forward to seeing the mixed reality applications you build with your HoloLens 2 Development Edition. Learn how to design, develop, and distribute your apps by visiting mixed reality https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/mixed-reality/. Stay up to date on the latest developer news by joining our https://aka.ms/IWantMR.


Purchase your HoloLens 2 Development Edition https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/HoloLens-2-Development-Edition/92f64zpzzzd4?activetab=pivot%3aoverviewtab.

Updated Apr 09, 2021
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Jesse McCulloch is a Program Manager on the Mixed Reality Developer Ecosystem team at Microsoft. Starting as a Mixed Reality Developer in 2016, he built up a strong community around HoloLens and Immersive Headsets, and then joined Microsoft in 2018 to help lead efforts in cultivating the developer ecosystem. While this timeline is short relative to how long academia has been working in this technology space, Jesse has been along for this current wave of early commercial adoption, and has felt the joys and pains of trying to bring a new technology to the world. This gives him a very unique perspective and strong desire to advocate strongly for the developers who are supporting the platform. He is often found hanging out in developer Slack groups, on Twitter trying to keep up with everything going on in this rapidly growing space, or in a big metal tube flying through the air on his way to engage with developers in the real world.
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  • Claude430's avatar
    Claude430
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 06, 2021

    Why do you need Unity Pro and the 3-month Pixyz Plugin license?

  • jedigirl's avatar
    jedigirl
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 05, 2021

    The form says it accepts SSN for sole proprietors though it still makes you fill in all the business fields. I completed it as best as I could but my application was rejected. Considering my credit and the info I got from their email it seems they are still treating me like a business. I tried to reach out and ask for clarification but have not heard back.

  • jedigirl's avatar
    jedigirl
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 02, 2021

    Will you post an update when that change is live? I've been waiting years for this announcement so I'm very much looking forward to it.

  • Jbmcculloch's avatar
    Jbmcculloch
    Former Employee
    Apr 02, 2021

    chuckfletcher - We are working with LiftForward to update the form so that sole-proprieters get a SSN field and do not have to provide a business tax id.  I don't have an ETA on when that will be updated, but it's in the works.

  • chuckfletcher's avatar
    chuckfletcher
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 02, 2021

    Yes, I found it. Thanks. Other issue now - I want to buy this as independent developer that isn't currently incorporated as a business, but the system doesn't seem to allow that. Must be an existing business. I'm employed as a developer/CTO full time but don't want buy/finance it through my current employer.

  • chuckfletcher's avatar
    chuckfletcher
    Copper Contributor
    Mar 30, 2021

    Tried to find this financing option as part of the purchase process, but was unsuccessful. Is this not actually live yet?