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Xepher@lemm.ee to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago

Microsoft is discontinuing Windows Mixed Reality

www.theverge.com

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Microsoft is discontinuing Windows Mixed Reality

www.theverge.com

Xepher@lemm.ee to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago
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    Great, unless someone reverse engineers WMR into SteamVR, my headset is going to be a paper weight “some time in the future”…

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      Sadly I don’t think they’re popular enough to let that sort of thing happen. I’ve seen attempts to make them work on Linux, but never to full functionality.

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        What does “not full functionality” mean here, no head movement or you can’t use the cameras? Cus as long as I can play the games I’e got through steamvr I’m happy

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          In here, it only supports rotational tracking, but no position sadly. You’d may as well be using Google Cardboard at this point.

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            Apparently some people are working on it. Defo not usable rn tho

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              I hope they make it fully work, it will absolutely be better to plug it directly into steamVR instead of having to go through two layers of VR.

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      There are some attempts at the Monado project if I’m not mistaken.

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        Support is unfortunately very limited as of writing

        Position: Experimental 6DoF tracking support with external SLAM/VIO systems is upstreamed but still being worked on. Tested with RealSense D455 and Samsung Odyssey+, Reverb G2, Oculus Rift S.

        Additional Notes: HMD only, no controllers. Tested: HP Reverb, HP Reverb G2, Samsung Odyssey, Lenovo Explorer, others: maybe.

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          Technically one could use a Vive tracker on top of the headset and use lighthouse tracking, this way it would be easy to use it with Index controllers

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            Yeah, but that would be a hassle, I liked the fact that most WMR headsets used inside-out tracking

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