Microsoft will lay off some employees who work on mixed reality, which includes virtual and augmented reality. The company will keep selling HoloLens 2 headsets, which first became available in 2019.

In a surprising move, Microsoft has decided to quietly withdraw its support for Windows Mixed Reality for the Windows Operating System. The software major revealed this development in a recent blog ...

Microsoft has confirmed that hardware development for its HoloLens mixed reality headset has officially come to an end. The company ended production of its latest headset, HoloLens 2, in October 2024, ...

Microsoft has confirmed that its HoloLens mixed reality hardware efforts have officially come to an end. The company ended production of its latest headset, HoloLens 2, in October 2024, and at the ...

Microsoft has updated its documentation with more details about the recent Windows Mixed Reality Deprecation. The company will end support in 2026 for consumers and in 2027 for commercial users. In ...

Windows Mixed Reality is heading to a farm upstate. Microsoft is shutting down the platform, according to an official list of deprecated Windows features. This includes the garden variety Windows ...

Microsoft's misnomered virtual reality initiative, Windows Mixed Reality (WMR), is being revived by a lone Microsoft employee. In a post on the WindowsMR subreddit, user mbucchia — a current Microsoft ...

Microsoft's layoff of 10,000 employees may pause the company's HoloLens and headset-based projects, with the entire teams working on mixed reality and virtual reality products decimated by the HR axe.