Microsoft is discontinuing Home windows Blended Actuality

It’s over for Home windows Blended Actuality. In an replace to a listing of deprecated Home windows options, Microsoft added Home windows Blended Actuality, together with the accompanying Blended Actuality Portal app and Home windows Blended Actuality for Steam VR.

The corporate says Home windows Blended Actuality is “deprecated and will likely be eliminated in a future launch of Home windows.” Microsoft first launched Home windows Blended Actuality in 2017 as a part of its bid to compete with digital actuality rivals like HTC and Oculus (now owned by Meta).

Home windows Blended Actuality served as a portal to video games, apps, and different experiences inside the VR area. Along with the Microsoft HoloLens, different firms, together with Acer, Dell, Lenovo, Asus, HP, and Samsung, made combined actuality headsets appropriate with Microsoft’s platform. It doesn’t appear like the enterprise-focused HoloLens 2 goes anyplace for now, although, as Microsoft added a free Home windows 11 improve and several other different enhancements for the $3,500 headset earlier this 12 months.