Microsoft’s HoloLens future in question after project leader departs

The questions come as Microsoft tries to figure out its strategy for the so-called metaverse, a concept for future computing built around users living, working and playing in interconnected virtual worlds. — Microsoft

Microsoft Corp said the executive in charge of its HoloLens goggles is leaving the company, putting the future of its augmented-reality project in question.

Alex Kipman, who had been with the Redmond, Washington-based software firm since 2001, was accused of inappropriate behaviour toward female employees at Microsoft by current and former workers in an Insider report in late May. He had been the public face of the HoloLens initiative and his departure comes at a sensitive time for the project, as Microsoft is deciding on whether to continue developing its own AR hardware, according to two people familiar with the matter.