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Microsoft Pulls Plug on Mixed Reality in New Windows 11 Update
Thursday October 3, 2024. 10:44 PM , from Slashdot
All the original Windows MR OEMs except Samsung used the same cheap fixed panels LCD design with fixed lenses, while the Samsung Odyssey had IPD adjustment and OLED panels - the same OLED panels that would be featured in HTC Vive Pro and Oculus Quest a year and a half later. Even though the LCD headsets were sold for as low as $200 at times, and even though Samsung offered (for the time) high-resolution OLED panels, Windows MR headsets failed to ever reach widespread adoption amongst PC VR gamers. On the Steam Hardware Survey Windows MR peaked at around 10% of SteamVR usage share in 2019, and now sits around 3.5%. The move follows Microsoft recently discontinuing the HoloLens 2. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/10/03/1955209/microsoft-pulls-plug-on-mixed-reality-in-new-window...
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