As owner of various VR headsets, the Windows Mixed Reality ones were some of the most fun ones I've owned. The Samsung Odyssey+ was and incredible headset at the time with its great OLED panels that made games like Elite Dangerous incredible to play with its deep blacks and vibrant colors. Sadly, Microsoft decided to stop supporting Windows Mixed Reality headsets in Windows 11 and many are now just sitting there collecting dust unless you do something like run Windows 10.
That is until this Fall. A Microsoft developer is looking to push out native SteamVR support for Windows Mixed Reality headsets thereby resurrecting a vast amount of older VR headsets out there, allowing them to be used in the latest Windows 11 version and experience some of the great games out and future games as well.
The video below shows it in action. Before this, you'd have to run another program that would enable Windows Mixed Reality headsets to be used. This developer's implementation would allow you to go straight into SteamVR and bypass the old requirement.
This is will be such a nice addition and allow those with older yet capable equipment to play VR again. For those who own the HP Reverb G2, still one of the best for games like flight and racing sims, it'll be great to not have to buy new equipment to experience those types of games again.
The current way it's done will be limited to NVIDIA cards, but it looks like someone from AMD has reached out to the developer to see about making this work for those types of video cards as well. Fingers crossed everything works out smoothly and I'll be able to plug the ole Reverb G2 back into my PC for some Microsoft Flight Simulator in VR again.
