▲ 66 ▼ Microsoft is discontinuing Windows Mixed Reality (www.theverge.com) submitted 2 years ago by Xepher@lemm.ee to c/technology@beehaw.org 25 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] marco@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) I didn't even know that was a thing 🤷 Though all I care about VR is Beat Saber on my Quest 2.... permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] vanderbilt@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago They thought they were going to sell it to the US Army as a combat HID but they were far too frail and gave people motion sickness. Additionally, to develop for it you needed to use their Windows-only dev tooling. Any serendipitous killer app was not going to happen. The product was DOA. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] vanderbilt@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago They thought they were going to sell it to the US Army as a combat HID but they were far too frail and gave people motion sickness. Additionally, to develop for it you needed to use their Windows-only dev tooling. Any serendipitous killer app was not going to happen. The product was DOA. permalink fedilink source parent