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Windows Mixed Reality to be removed in Windows 11 24H2 (blogs.windows.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by vividspecter@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

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Windows MR and HP Reverb VR headsets to lose all functionality in Windows 11 24H2, so don't update if you use those headsets.

I find it despicable that support for working hardware can be just abandoned after only a few years, and at least a basic driver should be released (ideally open source) if not the full WMR package, which few cared about anyway.

I'm hoping that Monado takes off at least as I only used Windows begrudgingly anyway.

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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 9 months ago

I'm still not sold on the whole spatial computing taking off anyway. I don't actually see what problem it solves. If you look at the Apple headset (I forget when it's actually called) It does not really use the virtual nature very much. It's all about putting 2D displays in the air it's not really making use of the fact that it's an artificial interface.

I was expecting some Iron Man level applications.

[-] dfc09@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

We're a long way off from iron man type shit, but yeah this is the path to getting there. It'll probably take decades but hopefully we can iron out the kinks and inconveniences to not so much "solve" problems vs normal screens, but elevate our ease of access and capabilities.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 9 months ago

It's just software at this point so hopefully Apple can update it. And hopefully other manufacturers will come up with similar products because I don't want Apple controlling in the market. Otherwise there won't be a market.

[-] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago

You are not wrong, but if you want to be in a position to rise with Immersive tech you have to put the time in now to develop and refine it. Getting out of immersive computing right now is like getting out of AI until right now saying it needs to be more mature first. By the time it is more mature, the market players will have been established. I think Apple has really set the Immersive Computing benchmark based on overviews like this one. Immersive computing is very compelling when done right. https://www.youtube.com/live/xsFuHCTfaZw?si=A9XjgQfKpYJORbJ0