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Microsoft employee reverse engineers Windows Mixed Reality driver and restores life to abandoned headsets with native SteamVR support

Last year, Microsoft inexplicably rendered thousands of virtual reality headsets useless as the company pulled support for the Windows Mixed Reality platform. Those who were still using a Windows ...
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Windows 11 No Longer Supports Microsoft’s Windows VR Headsets Following October Update

Microsoft revealed last year it had plans to pull the plug on support for its entire WMR platform on Windows. Now, with the launch of Windows 11 2024 Update yesterday, those VR headsets have ...
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Windows Mixed Reality is being resurrected by a lone Microsoft employee

Microsoft's misnomered virtual reality initiative, Windows Mixed Reality (WMR), is being revived by a lone Microsoft employee. In a post on the WindowsMR subreddit, user mbucchia — a current Microsoft ...
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Unofficial SteamVR Driver Will Reportedly Enable Support for WMR Headsets on Latest Windows Versions

Microsoft pulled the plug on support for its entire WMR platform on Windows 11 last year, putting an official end to the company’s foray into PC VR headsets. Now, an unofficial SteamVR driver hopes to ...
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Windows 11’s 2024 update finally kills this once-promising feature

The big Windows 11 24H2 update has brought all kinds of interesting and useful new features, but it has also removed several apps and features that Microsoft no longer wants to support going forward.