{"id":202183,"date":"2025-09-05T11:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T11:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/202183\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T11:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T11:33:10","slug":"xbox-engineer-brings-windows-mixed-reality-headsets-back-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/202183\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox engineer brings Windows Mixed Reality headsets back to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Windows Mixed Reality headsets were left in a non-functional state last year, after Microsoft suddenly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/12\/21\/24010787\/microsoft-windows-mixed-reality-deprecated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discontinued the platform<\/a> with its 24H2 update to Windows 11. Now, an Xbox engineer at Microsoft is bringing these headsets back to life, thanks to a new driver that enables SteamVR support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Matthieu Bucchianeri, a software engineer that worked on Microsoft\u2019s Windows Mixed Reality headsets, has released a free \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1701640&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fstore.steampowered.com%2Fapp%2F3824490%2FOasis_Driver_for_Windows_Mixed_Reality%2F\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oasis Driver for Windows Mixed Reality<\/a>\u201d on Steam. It\u2019s named Oasis as that\u2019s the codename Microsoft used for its Windows Mixed Reality efforts. The driver, spotted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uploadvr.com\/oasis-steamvr-driver-revives-windows-mr-headsets-on-windows-11\/#cw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UploadVR<\/a>, requires an Nvidia GPU, simply because it relies on features \u201cmissing in the AMD and Intel graphics driver,\u201d according to Bucchianeri.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">This Oasis driver doesn\u2019t require the Mixed Reality Portal application, and it can run OpenVR and OpenXR applications through SteamVR. \u201cThe driver offers full headset and motion controller tracking as well as a native SteamVR rendering pipeline,\u201d says Bucchianeri.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">While Microsoft should have delivered this type of driver to ensure Windows Mixed Reality headsets weren\u2019t useless with the latest Windows 11 updates, Bucchianeri \u2014 who is now an Xbox engineer at Microsoft \u2014 has created this independently by reverse-engineering Nvidia and SteamVR code. He\u2019s not releasing the source code as a result, and the Oasis driver will remain free to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Windows Mixed Reality headsets were left in a non-functional state last year, after Microsoft suddenly discontinued the platform&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":202184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[252,50,242,158,67,132,68,729,730,794],"class_list":{"0":"post-202183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-microsoft","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-tech","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-virtual-reality","16":"tag-vr","17":"tag-windows"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115151477403516799","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}