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Microsoft is Pulling the Plug on Windows VR Headsets

Road to VR

Microsoft announced this week that it plans to remove support for its entire WMR platform on Windows, which could make Windows VR headsets inoperable. Where Things Went Wrong But for all the right moves Microsoft made in this venture, there were a lot of wrong moves too.

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Microsoft just made it easier to officially download Windows 11

Digital Trends

Microsoft just released Windows 11 ISO files, making it easier to download and install the new operating system on compatible PCs.

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Microsoft Teams Introduces Frontline AR Tools for iOS, Android

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Microsoft highlights how companies can benefit from Team’s enterprise-ready and proven end-to-end encryption, data loss prevention, and compliance certifications when leveraging the AR service. Microsoft is planning for device-wide general availability in 2024.

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Microsoft Kills Off AltspaceVR Amid Major Layoffs

Upload VR

AltspaceVR is shutting down in March as Microsoft decimated its teams working in VR & AR this week as part of a major workforce reduction across the entire company. As an independent startup Altspace ran out of money, but in 2017 Microsoft acquired it and continued the effort.

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Minecraft Earth Gets 1.2 Million Downloads in First Week

AR Insider

million downloads and $93,000 in in-app purchases in its first week. This puts in third place in first-week downloads for AR games, behind Pokémon Go and HPWU. percent of downloads), Great Britain (5 percent of downloads) and Canada (2.6 percent of downloads). Header Image Credit: Microsoft, Mojang.

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Microsoft Explains What Exactly Will Happen To Windows Mixed Reality Headsets

Upload VR

Here's what Microsoft told us about when support will end, and what that means for you. If you missed the news, Microsoft announced that Windows Mixed Reality is now officially deprecated, and will be "removed in a future release of Windows". UploadVR reached out to Microsoft officially for answers. So there you have it.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.01.23): Microsoft shuts down Altspace and MRTK, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft lays off 10,000 employees and shuts down its mixed reality projects This is seriously a bad period for the tech industry in general, and of course also for mixed reality. For sure, not having Microsoft backing it will slow down a lot of its development.

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