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Shame, the early WMR headsets were a great non-Meta budget VR option. Loved my HP WMR and Samsung Odyssey+
Great, unless someone reverse engineers WMR into SteamVR, my headset is going to be a paper weight “some time in the future”…
Sadly I don’t think they’re popular enough to let that sort of thing happen. I’ve seen attempts to make them work on Linux, but never to full functionality.
I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you. I really hope Valve comes along and provides an updated non-meta vr experience.
They do, it’s called SteamVR and it’s good.
I meant a successor to the index. Preferably standalone. The rumoured Deckard if you will. I’d like to update my headset and I don’t want to buy another meta product. While it’s true that the OP was about software, it locks out a branch of hardware from being viable.
But but but how am I supposed to play minecraft irl now
Go get a shovel and an axe and have fun
They gave up on the one thing that kept me within the Microsoft ecosystem.
Well that’s disappointing but pretty expected. The Acer AH101-D8EY was my first VR headset. I can’t imagine why it didn’t catch on.
I didn’t even know that was a thing 🤷
Though all I care about VR is Beat Saber on my Quest 2…
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The company says Windows Mixed Reality is “deprecated and will be removed in a future release of Windows.” Microsoft first introduced Windows Mixed Reality in 2017 as part of its bid to compete with virtual reality rivals like HTC and Oculus (now owned by Meta).
Windows Mixed Reality served as a portal to games, apps, and other experiences within the VR space.
In addition to the Microsoft HoloLens, other companies, including Acer, Dell, Lenovo, Asus, HP, and Samsung, made mixed reality headsets compatible with Microsoft’s platform.
It doesn’t look like the enterprise-focused HoloLens 2 is going anywhere for now, though, as Microsoft added a free Windows 11 upgrade and several other improvements for the $3,500 headset earlier this year.
HoloLens boss Alex Kipman left last year over allegations of sexual misconduct, and the company later cut 10,000 jobs, many of which affected the workers behind Microsoft’s mixed reality projects, including the now-discontinued AltspaceVR app.
It also started letting Quest users access Office apps and its Xbox Cloud Gaming platform through a partnership with Meta.
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