All they had to do was leave it alone. Wtf.
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As a former Reverb G2 v2 owner (who recently sold his setup at fire sale prices because of this sunsetting by MS) I am very disappointed by this move. Why brick a bunch of perfectly functional devices and create a massive amount of e-waste in the process?
Why not just freeze WMR in place, stop feature development, but keep the functionality around? I can't imagine bug fixing and driver updates cost Microsoft any substantial amount of resources, given how they pretty much dropped doing any of that after 2022.
It makes no sense to me and feels like management wanting to make a statement, more than a reasonable business decision. Especially since this move directly conflicts their stated sustainability goals and directives.
It's almost like the company is trying really hard to wash their hands clean of the HoloLens exec they fired for misconduct a while ago in the most scorched earth way possible or something.
Feel like there should be legislation that required companies the sunset support for recently released hardware they should be required to release the software to the open community.
While that would be pretty nice, there are working open source drivers made by the community already. They have issues and only really work on linux though. lvra has plenty of info about this stuff.
Windows 10 2021 LTSC IoT is supposed to be supported up to 10 years. So that's 2032 for security updates. If this is true then that would be my strategy for keeping WMR in use.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-10-iot-enterprise-ltsc-2021
Does it work on LTSC? It did not work on LTSB—there was no support for Windows Store or whatever is required to install WMR software.
It's very easy to add Windows store to the iot version. Not sure about WMR yet
I bought a second hand HP Reverb early last year. Luckily I managed to sell it and get a Quest 3 without losing too much. Honestly the Quest just has a much better user experience and it’s worked perfectly for Simracing when used wired.
losing much
except all your data to facebook
I lost that nearly 20 years ago.
Get a pihole, or Adguard home and block all the Facebook nonsense. That's what I did with my quest 2. I'm also ulanning on getting a gdpr request through when I get around to it.
Already have pihole installed on my server. It’s more that I still have messenger/my fb account is deactivated rather than deleted. So meta has my data regardless.
Shame they got you by the balls like that. F
Fucking yikes. I almost got a reverb g2, I'm so glad I went with an index instead. Not that I'm planning to ever upgrade to windows 11, but I'm still safe if they try to nuke it in Windows 10 as well.
Not that I'm planning to ever upgrade to windows 11
Does the reverb work on Linux? Otherwise, I think you have 1 year.
There's a community driven effort to get it working, called Monado. To my knowledge they reverse engineered controller tracking and got to some extend room tracking working, but nothing production ready
I have an Index. Not a Reverb. I was saying I'm glad I got an Index instead of a Reverb.
sorry, forgot the first sentence while replying to the second. 😅
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