Xbox Engineer Brings Windows Mixed Reality Headsets Back To Life

3 months ago

Windows Mixed Reality headsets were near successful a non-functional authorities past year, aft Microsoft abruptly discontinued nan platform pinch its 24H2 update to Windows 11. Now, an Xbox technologist astatine Microsoft is bringing these headsets backmost to life, acknowledgment to a caller driver that enables SteamVR support.

Matthieu Bucchianeri, a package technologist that worked connected Microsoft’s Windows Mixed Reality headsets, has released a free “Oasis Driver for Windows Mixed Reality” connected Steam. It’s named Oasis arsenic that’s nan codename Microsoft utilized for its Windows Mixed Reality efforts. The driver, spotted by UploadVR, requires an Nvidia GPU, simply because it relies connected features “missing successful nan AMD and Intel graphics driver,” according to Bucchianeri.

This Oasis driver doesn’t require nan Mixed Reality Portal application, and it tin tally OpenVR and OpenXR applications done SteamVR. “The driver offers afloat headset and mobility controller search arsenic good arsenic a autochthonal SteamVR rendering pipeline,” says Bucchianeri.

While Microsoft should person delivered this type of driver to guarantee Windows Mixed Reality headsets weren’t useless pinch nan latest Windows 11 updates, Bucchianeri — who is now an Xbox technologist astatine Microsoft — has created this independently by reverse-engineering Nvidia and SteamVR code. He’s not releasing nan root codification arsenic a result, and nan Oasis driver will stay free to use.

If you’re willing successful trying retired nan Oasis driver, you tin download it from Steam. Make judge you besides travel nan quick commencement steps successful nan documentation for nan driver, too.