Microsoft today announced the availability of its industry-leading HoloLens 2 mixed reality headset in the UAE. HoloLens 2 provides the most comfortable, intuitive, and immersive mixed reality experience available, delivering enterprise value across key sectors with Dynamics 365 business applications and industry ISV solutions, backed by the reliability, security, and scalability of Microsoft Azure.
Microsoft’s comprehensive mixed reality platform blends the physical and digital worlds, across the spectrum from augmented reality to virtual reality, extending computing beyond two-dimensional screens to fundamentally transform productivity and optimize operations. Thousands of leading organizations across the globe in industries such as manufacturing, construction, healthcare, retail, and education are using HoloLens 2 and Azure mixed reality services to save significant costs, reduce energy consumption and operational emissions, improve learning and retention, enhance the delivery of patient treatment, and boost employee and customer satisfaction.
A Forrester Total Economic Impact Study commissioned by Microsoft showed that HoloLens 2 offers a 177 percent return on investment (ROI) over three years, as well as improvements to employee health and safety, business continuity, customer experience, and customer outcomes. “As we shift to the next computing paradigm, Microsoft is excited to upskill every business and every developer to build secure, collaborative metaverse experiences using best-in-class hardware, intelligent cloud services, and cross-platform tools,” said Ksenia Ternavskykh, Mixed Reality Product Marketing Lead, Microsoft Middle East and Africa.
“By starting with mixed reality, organizations can derive significant and quantifiable impact today and build necessary capabilities to be ready for the future.”
HoloLens 2 enables organizations to empower their workforce from day one with mixed reality apps from Microsoft Dynamics 365 and offers over 200 applications from its rich partner ecosystem, across Independent Software Vendors, System Integrators, and Digital agencies, to address unique industry-specific use-cases. HoloLens 2 will act as a business catalyst and empower partners to create new value, increase revenue, and improve customer relationships by offering mixed reality capabilities.
Redington has been appointed as the sole distributor for HoloLens 2 in the UAE and has been fully onboarded together with a number of partners.