Microsoft’s Kinect and HoloLens inventor thinks ‘the phone is already dead’
Alex Kipman, one of Microsoft’s top technical fellows, believes the age of the smartphone is over. “The phone is already dead,” says Kipman, in an interview with Bloomberg. “People just haven’t realized.” Kipman reportedly believes that a mixed reality device like HoloLens will replace the phone, but he hasn’t shared his exact predictions for the timeframe of when the supposedly dead smartphone will be replaced.
It’s not surprising Kipman would pick Microsoft’s HoloLens as the phone replacement. Kipman is one of the inventors of the technology inside the HoloLens headset, and helped develop it in secret underneath Microsoft’s visitor center in Redmond, Washington. Kipman also invented the Kinect sensor, and rose to prominence inside…
