Microsoft might be resurrecting its mixed reality business

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Microsoft has reportedly struck a woody with Samsung for OLED panels that could powerfulness a caller enactment of mixed world headsets. Korean outlet The Elec reported earlier this week that (as per a instrumentality translation) the concern is inactive successful its precise aboriginal stages, with wide accumulation not started until 2026. A root told the outlet the bid could beryllium for “hundreds of thousands” of units and that the instrumentality would beryllium focused connected watching flatscreen gaming and video content, not “metaverse” engagement.

As Road to VR notes, the rumored instrumentality sounds similar a rival to Apple’s Vision Pro, which aims to beryllium a ample floating level surface alternatively than a much analyzable augmented oregon virtual world system. (How galore radical privation this? Maybe less than Apple thought.) Microsoft antecedently tried the second with its HoloLens AR headset and its Windows Mixed Reality enactment of VR headsets, but it downsized its HoloLens team and discontinued Windows Mixed Reality past year.

Samsung announced successful 2023 that it would spouse with Google (whose AR/VR past is also beauteous rocky) and Qualcomm connected a caller headset, which has been rumored to amusement up astir the extremity of this year. Microsoft, meanwhile, has been pushing its apps toward the Meta Quest headset for a fewer years. It’s an breathtaking magnitude of imaginable contention for the mixed world abstraction — if immoderate of these headsets really marque it retired the door.

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