More Bad News for VR at Microsoft

[sbclark 55]

This is not good!

Microsoft Lays Off All Its VR, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens Employees:

https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/342480-microsoft-lays-off-all-of-its-vr-mixed-reality-and-hololens-employees

These cutbacks have already begun. On Friday, AltspaceVR—a virtual reality company Microsoft acquired back in 2017—tweeted that it would shut down on March 10. Microsoft had dumped the entire team. Microsoft additionally laid off its “Mixed Reality Tool Kit” (MRTK) group, which was responsible for the company’s open-source mixed reality framework for Unity. MRTK was due for a new version release next month; instead, it’s being put to rest.

Bill Clark

[mbucchia 16]

Beware, that article you linked is a clickbait title and a whole lot of fake news.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/mixed-reality-blog/microsoft-committed-to-hololens-2-and-mixed-reality/ba-p/3732405?attachment-id=58518

Edited February 4, 2023 by mbucchia