A lone Microsoft employee released an unofficial SteamVR driver for Windows MR headsets, called Oasis, re-enabling their use on Windows 11.

Gave my old WMR headset to a friend, so it’s nice to know they can still use it.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/36956097

The Oasis driver arrives just under one year after Microsoft started rolling out Windows 11 24H2, which completely removed support for Windows MR. This meant Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung PC VR headset owners could no longer use their headset at all, not even on Steam, since Windows MR had its own runtime and only supported SteamVR through a shim.

Matthieu Bucchianeri’s Oasis solves this problem, for free. Oasis is a native SteamVR driver for Windows MR headsets, adding direct SteamVR support. No other software is required, except for SteamVR itself.

  • VikEnglish
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    22 days ago

    Contrary to what the article suggests, oasis now works with amd gfx on windows as of 25.9.2. The windows gfx stack also allows for generic EDID overrides, I believe this was a miscommunication.

    My hope is that this will also work for Intel Arc soon.

    • Bubs@lemmy.zipOPM
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      21 days ago

      That’s some great news! I think the article was from around the time of the first public releases.