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Full SteamVR support doesn't fix Windows Mixed Reality's early access feel

Full SteamVR support doesn’t fix Windows Mixed Reality’s early access feel

Posted on May 12, 2018July 15, 2019 By Jarvis

Windows Mixed Reality headsets are easy to set up, but frustrating to use.

Hardware doesn’t really have an “Early Access” period per se, the way games often do nowadays, but I’ve put off writing about Microsoft’s Mixed Reality headsets for essentially that reason. A half-dozen headsets emerged last October with few games and even less fanfare. To make matters worse, they were locked to the Windows 10 Store at launch, making it particularly unattractive to those who’d already amassed a sizable amount of VR content on Steam.

That sin wasn’t rectified until December when Microsoft added rudimentary SteamVR support—in beta. And it wasn’t officially rectified until about a week ago, when Windows 10’s April 2018 Update coincided with SteamVR-on-Mixed-Reality getting the 1.0 seal of approval.
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Wearables Tags:hardware, Microsoft, review, steam, steamvr, VR, Windows, Windows 10, Windows Mixed Reality

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