Asus has confirmed that it is foraying into the augmented reality market. The company revealed that it is building its own augmented reality headset sometime in 2016.
Asus CEO Jerry Shen announced the plans about the augmented reality headset in an interview to Cnet. He said that augmented reality devices will likely be more useful than virtual reality headsets. Meanwhile, Asus chairman Jonney Shih stated that the company was in talks with Microsoft in October about building a cheaper version of HoloLens.
“We think AR will be very important for people’s lives … It should be next year when we come out with a product. You can make a real setting meld together with yourself and the AR portion,” he said. “Internally, we are talking about how to prepare.”
Shen told the publication.
At present, Microsoft has its HoloLens augmented reality headset whose developer’s version will cost $3000 and is scheduled to launch next year. Shen also revealed plans to release a service robot next year but did not offer any details on the same.