Microsoft HoloLens is one of two Best of the Best winners for Red Dot award in consumer electronics category

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The Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality headset has won a Best of the Best Red Dot Award for 2016 in the Consumer Electronics and Cameras category. It is one of two Microsoft products with the Best of the Best accolade in this category, the other being the Microsoft Xbox Elite Wireless Controller.

The wireless Microsoft HoloLens comes in the shape of a curved visor that projects holograms into the user’s physical environment. Users can interact with the HoloLens using gaze, voice and hand gestures.

HoloLens features multiple sensors, speakers as well as a high-performance holographic processing unit. The visor was optimised ergonomically for peripheral viewing and uses infrared light to dimensionally track not only the user’s hand gestures but also the room around the user. Its spherical visor understands where users are looking; it recognises their voice commands and can spatially map their surroundings.

"Offering an innovative approach toward interaction, it opens up new worlds and fascinates with a design honed toward ergonomic convenience," said judges.

The Red Dot Award is one of the largest and most prestigious design awards in the world. In 2016, the award received a record 5,200 innovations from 57 nations. A jury panel of 41 international experts debated in Germany over three days to select the product designs that represent the best of design today.

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Visit the online exhibition

The Red Dot Museum in Singapore is featuring a collection of products which have received Red Dot Award: Product Design 2016 awards. The museum is at 28 Maxwell Road, Red Dot Traffic Building, Singapore 069120. It is generally open Monday to Sunday from 11am to 8pm but may be closed for private events on certain days.

The Museum has a separate exhibition called Convey, for winners of the Red Dot Award: Communication Design.

Award winning design concepts and ideas of the Red Dot Award: Design Concept, an award which is headquartered in Singapore, are also on show at the museum.

Read the TechTrade Asia blog posts on the Red Dot award for the Microsoft Xbox Elite Wireless Controller, and about how JAL trains staff using the HoloLens