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Microsoft Is Killing Its Windows Mixed Reality VR Platform (www.uploadvr.com)
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Microsoft announced this week that Windows Mixed Reality is now officially deprecated, and will be "removed in a future release of Windows". This deprecation includes both the required Mixed Reality Portal application and the SteamVR driver. That means that when this removal happens, existing owners of Windows MR headsets will need to use older versions of Windows to continue using them.

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[–] SnugZebras@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

RIP. Mixed reality isn't the best, but got me into vr. I hope I can still use my reverb g2.

[–] thesprongler@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My reverb g2 has been in a box for almost a year but I'm firing it up this week. I found WMR to be unnecessary, but maybe things changed since then.

[–] terraborra@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 years ago

This is what has me worried. I’m pretty sure that SteamVR should work without the WMR for Steam plugin, and it’ll be good to lose the overhead of WMR Home running in the background, but what if they bork it?

[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Here's hoping Valve pick up the slack and just integrate the G2 into SteamVR.

Otherwise I have one new expensive paperweight.

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Apart from the tracking, Windows MR was a decent system that integrated nicely. Shame we couldn't get a bridge driver to keep using it with SteamVR. Guess it's up to the OS community to fix that?

[–] lefty7283@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

RIP me and the dozen other people using G2's I guess