![]() ![]() The home is too sprawling to navigate by walking in real space, so you’ll need to use one of the two Vive-like controllers to get around. The real-estate aspirations of every Seattle-dwelling Microsoft designer bleed through the so-called Cliff House. To dive in, though, you’ll need one of five Windows Mixed Reality headsets, the latest of which Microsoft just announced on October 3 at an event in San Francisco. Microsoft calls it “Mixed Reality” because it will accommodate both VR headsets, and eventually AR headsets like the HoloLens as well.Ī free Windows 10 update will deliver everyone the software they need on October 17. Microsoft wants to break VR out of the basement and into the living room with Windows Mixed Reality, an ambitious gambit to build VR into the operating system you’re already using. Yet for all the breathless praise and predictions, VR very much remains a novelty for well-heeled software engineers and obsessive gamers. And Editor in Chief, Jeremy Kaplan, just wants to go back to Mars. Elon Musk isn’t convinced we’re not already in it. Atari founder Nolan Bushnell thinks we’re going to live in The Matrix within our lifetimes. Tech pundits like yours truly have been opining about VR “going mainstream” for years. ![]()
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