Microsoft will lay off some employees who work on mixed reality, which includes virtual and augmented reality. The company will keep selling HoloLens 2 headsets, which first became available in 2019.
Windows Mixed Reality is heading to a farm upstate. Microsoft is shutting down the platform, according to an official list of deprecated Windows features. This includes the garden variety Windows ...
In a surprising move, Microsoft has decided to quietly withdraw its support for Windows Mixed Reality for the Windows Operating System. The software major revealed this development in a recent blog ...
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 ...
In the latest update in the massive Microsoft layoffs, we now have a better idea of how deep the cuts run in Microsoft's Mixed Reality team. The team behind AltSpaceVR and also the Mixed Reality Tool ...
Microsoft has confirmed that its HoloLens mixed reality hardware efforts have officially come to an end. The company ended production of its latest headset, HoloLens 2, in October 2024, and at the ...
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 ...
Microsoft has updated its documentation with more details about the recent Windows Mixed Reality Deprecation. The company will end support in 2026 for consumers and in 2027 for commercial users. In ...
Microsoft will be removing Windows Mixed Reality in a future operating system update. The decision includes the Mixed Reality Portal app, Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR, and Steam VR Beta. Mixed ...
Microsoft will still be part of the steering committee for the Mixed Reality Toolkit GitHub group, along with Qualcomm and Magic Leap. The third version of the toolkit will launch in mid-September.
Microsoft has confirmed that hardware development for its HoloLens mixed reality headset has officially come to an end. The company ended production of its latest headset, HoloLens 2, in October 2024, ...