Fucking hell.
Surely they’re gonna have some kind of long term option and not just turn millions of 600 dollar consumer devices into bricks right?
Guess HP wasn’t finished fucking over me with their printers, they had to tie the best headset at that pricepoint to Microsoft.
Wow, windows just has no faith in itself.
… They supported WMR for about five years and parts of it were used for government contracts. And it is an entire ecosystem of PCVR. That is a lot of “faith”.
It is just that VR in general is incredibly niche and the majority has been claimed by facebook.
Goes the way of the windows phone which MS recently said was a mistake to abandon.
So yeah, I find this another lack of faith. 5 years is barely any time at all when it comes to emerging technologies.
Even if they remove WMR for Steam, we should still be able to use SteamVR though yeah?
It depends
As it stands, your WMR headset uses WMR to connect to the machine and SteamVR uses an adapter to connect to WMR (you may have noticed the “SteamVR for Windows Mixed Reality” download or whatever it is called). That would be broken if WMR is outright disabled or not available for download.
There ARE theoretically workarounds where OpenXR or something similar is used instead. But the ones I have seen that bypass WMR/Oculus Link/whatever are, to put it lightly, Janky as all fuck.
So I wouldn’t outright throw a WMR in the bin but I would actively discourage spending any money on one. Which, to be fair, is where I have been with my HP Reverb G2 since I switched to full Linux.
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