I find it despicable that support for working hardware can be just abandoned after only a few years, and at least a basic driver should be released (ideally open source) if not the full WMR package, which few cared about anyway.

I'm hoping that Monado takes off at least as I only used Windows begrudgingly anyway.

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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If enough people bought a WMR for that to matter then it wouldn't be getting shitcanned.

[–] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

agreed, but if MS innovated and pushed the tech forward more they could have gained a bigger audience by now.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago

So if they had made more specs/revisions for a tech that already didn't sell particularly well?

Even stuff like the Valve Index (and HTC Vive before it?) never got a significant marketshare. And WMR, like steam machines before it, would have split that between the three or four manufacturers who followed the spec.

The facebook quest 2 seems to be doing well but that also pushes hard on the closed ecosystem side of things (you CAN use it on PC but it is clearly marketed as standalone). Maybe if MS had done that but... again, if it was just "put more money in" then they would have done it during the past few years of "spend it or lose it" because of inflation.

I loved my HP Reverb G2 (best seated VR ever). I am not at all surprised to see MS fully kill it considering that "the killer apps" have largely been the same for the better part of a decade. The market is stagnant and we are going to need apple's dream of everyone wearing AR goggles 24/7 to come to fruition for there to really be much of a market going forward.