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  1. Oasis Driver revives Windows Mixed Reality headsets on SteamVR

    A lone, technically audacious intervention has kept a generation of Windows Mixed Reality (WMR) headsets out of landfill: Matthieu Bucchianeri, a Microsoft engineer with prior experience on the company’s mixed‑reality teams, released the free “Oasis Driver for Windows Mixed Reality” on Steam to...
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  2. Oasis: NVIDIA-Only SteamVR Driver Revives Windows Mixed Reality on Windows 11

    A single, determined engineer has quietly reversed the fate of a generation of Windows Mixed Reality headsets by releasing a native SteamVR driver that restores full headset and motion-controller functionality on Windows 11 builds that Microsoft left unsupported — but the fix comes with...
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  3. SteamVR Beta 2.13.1 auto-installs Oasis driver for Windows Mixed Reality on Windows 11

    Valve’s SteamVR beta has quietly added a major usability safety net: SteamVR Beta 2.13.1 will automatically prefer and install the community-built Oasis driver when it detects a Windows Mixed Reality (WMR) headset running on Windows 11 versions that no longer support Microsoft’s WMR runtime...
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  4. Oasis Driver: Reviving Windows Mixed Reality with Native SteamVR/OpenXR

    August 29, 2025 delivered an unexpected lifeline to owners of aging Windows Mixed Reality headsets: a new native SteamVR driver called Oasis that restores direct SteamVR/OpenXR compatibility for devices left orphaned after Microsoft deprecated the Mixed Reality Portal. Background Windows Mixed...
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