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Microsoft Releases Free Preview For ‘Remote Assist’ & ‘Layout’ Enterprise AR/VR Apps

Microsoft appears to be seeing strong traction with HoloLens in the enterprise space, and the company continues to expand its "Mixed Reality" platform in that sector, promising businesses time and money savings. Two new applications to address this, Remote...

Report: Samsung & Microsoft Boost “MR” Partnership, Samsung Builds Wireless AR/VR Headset

Samsung appears to be making a strategic partnership with Microsoft as it produces what Korean Times reports is a "powerful cordless headset that supports both augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR)." The headset is said to make use...

Windows VR Headsets Soon to Get Improved SteamVR Performance, New Home Environment

This Spring, Microsoft is planning to roll out an update to Windows which will bring a number of improvements to Windows VR headsets, including better performance when used to play SteamVR content and during typical use, and a new...

Microsoft to Expand HoloLens Availability to 29 More European Markets in December

Microsoft announced at their at Future Decoded conference in London that HoloLens, the company's augmented reality headset, will be expanding its international availability to include all of the European Union in December. HoloLens is currently only officially available in Australia, Canada, China, France,...

Microsoft Joins OpenXR, Becoming a Decisive Backer in the Open, Royalty-free VR/AR Standard

Khronos Group, the consortium behind the OpenXR project which aims to standardize the way applications communicate with AR and VR headsets, just added Microsoft to its ranks. Among its count of members, the OpenXR working group consisted of nearly every major player...

Microsoft Opens Mixed Reality Capture Studios & Academy in San Francisco Reactor Space

Microsoft today announced the opening of its Mixed Reality Capture Studios and a 'Mixed Reality Academy' in the company's San Francisco Reactor dev space. Microsoft has a number of Reactors, or physical spaces that are open and free of charge to...
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Microsoft’s Newest Headset Advert Focuses in on Portability, Ease of Use & Travel

Microsoft's special Windows "Mixed Reality" event today saw the unveiling of its latest addition to the VR family, the Samsung HMD Odyssey, and also announced that all VR headsets slated to ship before holiday season are currently in pre-order. With...

Update: Steam Support for Windows VR Headsets to Arrive Before End of Year

Microsoft's Windows VR headsets (branded as 'Mixed Reality') are nearly ready to ship, coming alongside the launch of Windows Fall Creators Update in mid-October. Announced today at Microsoft's Windows Mixed Reality event, the company says a "preview" of SteamVR...

Dell’s VR ‘Visor’ Headset Now Available For Pre-order at $350, Shipping Mid-October

Dell's virtual reality headset may be only one out of an entire fleet of PC VR devices designed with the auspices of Microsoft, but it appears to be the first consumer headset of the bunch currently up for pre-order. Slated...

Microsoft Publishes New System Requirements for Windows VR Headsets, and An App to Check Your PC

As the holiday launch of the Windows VR headsets nears, Microsoft has published a new set of system requirements and an app allowing you to see if your PC will be ready for the company's "Mixed Reality" platform. A while...

Acer Upgrades VR Headset’s Headstrap for Consumer Launch

Acer's Windows VR headset initially became available earlier this summer as a development kit. In October the company will launch the consumer version of the headset now with an upgraded head strap. The Acer "Mixed Reality" VR headset is due...

The First Windows VR Headsets a Launching in October, And They’re Finally Getting Names

Microsoft announced a bunch of new info related to the Windows VR headsets earlier this week, including a mention that they'd launch this "holiday." Well it seems the holidays are getting started a little early this year, as the...

Hands-on: Microsoft’s “Mixed Reality” VR Motion Controllers

Microsoft debuted the lengthily-named "Windows Mixed Reality motion controllers" back in May, but until now we haven't had a chance to actually try them out. During a recent meeting with Microsoft in San Francisco, I got to try the...

SteamVR Will Support Windows VR Headsets

Microsoft today announced that Windows VR headsets will be able to play SteamVR content. Microsoft is working toward the launch of consumer Windows VR headsets coming this holiday, and today co-announced with Valve that the headsets will support SteamVR content. “The...

“Future Halo experiences” Coming to Windows VR Headsets, Microsoft Says

Microsoft today announced that 343 Industries, the studio tasked with overseeing the Halo franchise, will be creating Halo-themed experiences for the company's lineup of VR headsets. The information, revealed by HoloLens' chief inventor and 'Mixed Reality' project lead Alex Kipman, comes alongside the...
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