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Urge Microsoft to Make Windows Mixed Reality VR Platform Open Source

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/11027166

Petition: make WMR open source

Microsoft has stopped supporting WMR.

Please sign this petition to?open-source the software, so others can maintain it and prevent the perfectly good VR headsets becoming e-waste!

  • okamiueru@lemmy.worldEnglish
    48·
    9 months ago

    When not even Valve can muster enough motivation, I wouldn’t hold my breath on Microsoft.

    • F04118F@feddit.nlOPEnglish
      65·
      9 months ago

      Valve actively maintains SteamVR and put in a lot of work for Linux compatibility. Doing that while open sourcing the software is hard. It adds work.

      However, open sourcing an abandoned piece of software costs virtually nothing, and can be a big image boost.

      • okamiueru@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Sure? No. It was silly of me to suggest it was a question of motivation. I don’t know enough about it to make any such assumptions.

        I did however give it another go earlier this year, with no success. I could try again if there is reason to think it should work. Valve is the company I respect the most when it comes to caring about Linux. Which is why it always surprised me that I couldn’t use the Vive there. Still one of the very few reasons left for dual booting.