Windows comments on the discontinuation of Windows Mixed Reality: VR headsets likely to become electronic waste in the long term

[Smiff]

VR will go the way of 3D TV

3D TVs went "that way" mostly only because big screen cinemas were opposing them.

3D TVs only failed because the advertising was extremely misleading. Even the point of purchase boxes had a family in their living room with a soccer ball flying over their heads or a shark popping way out of the TV. But there was little to no content being developed with "pop-out" content. It was all depth, which was pretty underwhelming compared to what was being advertised.

[DiegoSynth]

We will be having crap like this as long as this guy is there in MS. It's clear they have no direction; they keep on releasing "new" things from one day to another and then killing them.

W10 was good, but they felt they needed to sit 15 years on their asses and release a bad skin calling it "W11".

Windows Phone was good; they sat on their asses and did nothing.

M.reality was (from what I've heard) good: same thing.

All the rest is bad, and they keep on adding it: stupid Windows settings screens, when we always had a good Control Panel. Now there are like 3 different ways to access sound settings, or apps, or whatever. And none of them is as complete as it was b4.
Key keep messing with start button, with the icons bar, etc. when no one asked for it.

[Pixelbasher]

VR is far superior to 3D, there is a much better sense of depth, scale and immersion. Anyone who says different has not truly used VR or it properly. Problem with VR is the need for wearing a headset which puts some people off and also it is very difficult to market the product. The only way a person can understand what VR is really like is by trying a VR headset.

Possibly, VR has also been affected by negativity towards 3D glasses and some people not understanding the difference between them.