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'Oasis' WMR Driver Expected Later This Month, Bringing New Life to Microsoft's PC VR Headsets (www.roadtovr.com)
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Microsoft stopped supporting its WMR platform on Windows 11 last year, essentially putting an end to its first foray into PC VR headsets. However, an unofficial SteamVR driver called ‘Oasis’ aims to bridge the gap when it releases later this month.

According to Oasis creator Matthieu Bucchianeri, the driver’s tentative global release date is August 29th, which he notes is subject to Valve approving release on Steam.

Oasis is slated to bridge Windows Mixed Reality headset support to SteamVR, which would otherwise need Microsoft’s Mixed Reality Portal to function. This, Bucchianeri says in the project’s GitHub, will include support for full 6DoF tracking along with motion controllers.

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[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You could probably roll back to an earlier version of win 11 that still has the support. That should get you a few more years

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

One more year. I am locked to 2H24 on my machine which is the last supported feature release and Microsoft has stated that support will be dropped even for that in 2026.

They are mum on what "support ending" actually means. I don't know if you can continue using it so long as you still have the WMR software installed on your specific machine and you won't be able to redownload it on a different machine or after a reinstall after that date, or if they will pull some fuckery to attempt to outright remove it from your system.

Honestly I'm amazed they haven't been sued over this yet. I guess there just aren't enough users of WMR headsets after all.

[–] eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

With a bit of luck, Monado will properly support WMR headsets then. I haven't tried it myself, but apparently with some tinkering it is already possible to use WMR headsets on Linux using any GPU and get full 6dof tracking. There's a guide for it somewhere on reddit's linux vr subreddit.