Acer releases cut-price HoloLens alternative to developers - available for just $300

Chris Merriman
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If it's anything like Acer's laptops it will work for a couple of years and then fall apart

Acer has started selling its "mixed reality" headset to developers via the Microsoft Store at a tenth of the price of Microsoft's own HoloLens.   The headset we tested in prototype last month is...

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