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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. SteamVR Beta auto-installs Oasis for Windows Mixed Reality on Windows 11

    Valve’s SteamVR beta has quietly built a safety net for owners of Windows Mixed Reality headsets: the SteamVR Beta (v2.13.1) now automatically prefers and installs the third‑party “Oasis” driver when it detects WMR hardware running on versions of Windows 11 that no longer include Microsoft’s...
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  3. 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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  4. Oasis: Reviving Windows Mixed Reality with SteamVR on Windows 11 (NVIDIA-only)

    A quiet software miracle has turned a stack of nearly obsolete Windows Mixed Reality headsets back into usable PC VR hardware: Oasis, a free, unofficial SteamVR driver released by Matthieu Bucchianeri, restores direct SteamVR support to Windows MR devices on modern Windows 11 systems and, in the...
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  5. 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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  6. Reviving Windows Mixed Reality: The Future of Affordable, High-Quality PC VR

    For years, Windows Mixed Reality (WMR) headsets have occupied a unique space in the evolving landscape of virtual reality hardware. Born of Microsoft’s ambitious, sometimes turbulent dreams to democratize spatial computing, WMR devices once presented a tempting middle ground between high-end PC...
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  7. Oasis: Reviving Windows Mixed Reality Headsets with Independent SteamVR Driver

    For the tens of thousands of VR enthusiasts who invested in Windows Mixed Reality headsets, the past year has felt like betrayal. With the arrival of the Windows 11 24H2 update, Microsoft quietly pulled the plug on its entire Mixed Reality (MR) platform—rendering a slew of devices from industry...
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  8. Reviving Windows Mixed Reality: The Oasis Project Brings Old VR Headsets Back to Life

    With Microsoft’s sweeping changes in Windows 11 24H2, thousands of existing Windows Mixed Reality (MR) headsets—from manufacturers like Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung—have found themselves at a dramatic crossroads. Official support for these devices has been unceremoniously stripped...
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