Mixed Reality
The latest Mixed Reality coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Azure Front Door Outage 2025: Lessons in Hyperscale Cloud Resilience
The October 29, 2025 Azure Front Door outage represented one of the most significant cloud service disruptions in recent memory, affecting Microsoft 365, Azure services, and countless dependent...
Meta Quest Horizon OS v81 Revolutionizes VR with Windows 11 Integration
Meta's latest Horizon OS v81 update represents one of the most significant overhauls to the Quest platform in years, fundamentally transforming the virtual reality home experience while dramatically...
Microsoft Designer’s Copilot Veja Dumps the Screen for an Audio‑First AR Future
Microsoft designer Braz de Pina has quietly detonated a provocative idea inside the mixed‑reality debate: a wearable that sees, hears, and speaks—yet has no display of its own. Dubbed Copilot...
UK Social Housing Turns to Microsoft’s Power Platform for AI-Driven Repairs and Compliance Dashboards
UK social housing providers have spent the last few years digitising paper forms and automating routine workflows with the Microsoft Power Platform. Now, a new strategic briefing from digital...
Forgotten Windows VR Headsets Get a SteamVR Lifeline via Oasis Driver
On August 29, 2025, owners of Windows Mixed Reality headsets got an unexpected reprieve. A new native SteamVR driver called Oasis, developed by former Microsoft mixed reality engineer Matthieu...
Microsoft Designer Envisions HoloLens Successor as AI-Powered Earbuds That See and Speak
A Microsoft principal designer has sketched out a radical departure from bulky mixed-reality headsets: a pair of AI-driven earbuds that use stereo cameras to understand your surroundings and speak...
Samsung to Supply OLED-on-Silicon Panels for Microsoft’s Gaming-Focused Mixed Reality Headset
Samsung Display has reportedly secured a deal to supply advanced OLED-on-silicon (OLEDoS) microdisplays for a new Microsoft mixed reality device, aiming squarely at gaming and media consumption. The...
Microsoft's 2017 Mixed Reality Blitz: Fall Creators Update, Surface Book 2, and the $399 VR Gamble
Microsoft set out to reshape the personal computing landscape on October 17, 2017, when it launched the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update alongside a coordinated fleet of Windows Mixed Reality headsets...
Microsoft Delivers Fall Creators Update Without Timeline as Mixed Reality Headsets Face Steam Delays
When Microsoft began rolling out the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update in mid-October 2017, it delivered a suite of creative tools and mixed reality magic—but the Timeline feature that had been hyped...
How Microsoft's Windows 10 Creators Update Rollout Really Unfolded: April 11 Start, Key Features, and the April 4 Myth
Microsoft’s Windows 10 Creators Update didn’t arrive on April 4, 2017, despite what some headlines claimed. The real story is a carefully orchestrated phased rollout that began on April 11—with...
Windows 2030: The AI-Driven, Quantum-Secure, Multimodal Future of Personal Computing
Every technological revolution in personal computing has redefined our expectations of how we interact with machines. Yet few moments in the Windows journey rival the seismic change promised by...
Oasis Project Revives Windows Mixed Reality Headsets Amid Platform Deprecation
Microsoft’s announcement in 2024 that it would deprecate the Windows Mixed Reality (WMR) platform sent shockwaves through the virtual reality community. For years, WMR headsets had provided an...