cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/11027166
Petition: make WMR open source
Microsoft has stopped supporting WMR.
Please sign this petition to?open-source the software, so others can maintain it and prevent the perfectly good VR headsets becoming e-waste!
As if ms actually gives a shit about a change.org petition
Then just sign it as a middle finger to Microsoft. The more people sign it, the worse they look
No, the more people that sign it, the more people give their personal information away. These petitions do nothing.
FYI there’s an open-source project “Monado” which attempts to reverse-engineer inside-out tracked headsets. At the moment their WMR support looks promising, headset has 6-DoF tracking and just recently controller tracking has been figured out.
Said progress will trickle down to the Oculus Rift S as well
Not a chance in hell MS dignifies this with a response.
Then just sign it as a middle finger to Microsoft. The more people sign it, the worse they look
Do you know how many people signed the proposal to release Visual Studio on Linux?
Then just sign it as a middle finger to Microsoft. The more people sign it, the worse they look
I just love the ambiguity of who “they” is in this case.
Good luck but insert meme of wiping tears off with dala dollar bills.
The team at Microsoft that was working on it probably got put on different projects. There wouldn’t be anyone to put in the effort to get the code cleaned up of any proprietary libraries, internal references,… No way they are shifting people back around and paying for development to get this done.
Microsoft concerns me greatly, but they seem to be in transition to primarily software/cloud based tech.
I’ll sign the petition while not getting hopes up, but this is the iteration of Microsoft most likely to pull such a crazy move
When not even Valve can muster enough motivation, I wouldn’t hold my breath on Microsoft.
Are you sure about this?
Valve actively maintains SteamVR and put in a lot of work for Linux compatibility. Doing that while open sourcing the software is hard. It adds work.
However, open sourcing an abandoned piece of software costs virtually nothing, and can be a big image boost.
Valve actively maintains SteamVR and put in a lot of work for Linux compatibility
You have never used SteamVR on Linux, have you?
You’re wrong about open sourcing abandoned software being easy.
