Microsoft pulled the plug on support for its entire WMR platform on Windows 11 last year, putting an official end to the company’s foray into PC VR headsets. Now, an unofficial SteamVR driver hopes to bring it back.
Microsoft deprecated the Mixed Reality Portal app, Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR, and Steam VR Beta when Windows 11 24H2 update rolled out last October, making a fleet of PC VR headsets from Acer, Asus, Dell, Lenovo, HP, and Samsung essentially expensive paperweights.
Granted, if you haven’t updated to Windows 11 24H2, or are still on Windows 10, Microsoft says you’ll be able to play SteamVR content through November 2026 before the plug is pulled for good. Still, that’s a bitter pill to swallow for users of WMR’s most modern headset, HP Reverb G2, which released less than five years ago.
Now, Reddit user ‘mbucchia’ claims an unofficial SteamVR driver is in the works, which aims to bring all WMR headsets back into the fold sometime this Fall.
Nvidia only :/
And closed source 😞
I really don’t understand why people do free (as in beer) software and not open source it. Or make the source accessible at least if they want to retain more control.
And only for Windows.
AMD have reached out to him in the comments to see if they can work something out. So there might be hope
Here’s the reddit thread https://www.reddit.com/r/WindowsMR/comments/1l65ji8/things_are_about_to_change_oasis_driver_for/
