Will Unity Support New Windows Mixed Reality API ?

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Will Unity Support New Windows Mixed Reality API ?

I would like to try.

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I think you just target Windows Store for UWP (universal windows platform)

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Thanks, but which version of unity will support this ?

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Please share any information. Thanks!

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We will probably hear about it in Build 2017 happening these days, but Windows Mixed Reality used to be Windows Holographic, which is used today by Microsoft HoloLens, and Unity supports it. In Player Settings instead of you can select VR API like Oculus, but you also can already select Windows Holographic, and it will be renamed to Windows Mixed Reality soon I suppose.

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2017.2 is supposed to ‘properly’ support WMR. From what I’ve read you can run your UWP compiled unity scenes in 2017.1 but they’re presented in a 2d panel rather than truly 3d. And there’s plenty of gotchas like needing windows 10 - running in development mode - and WMR only works in the Mixed Reality portal app - which requires installation of the windows insider build. And it appears to have serious limitations in vmware, if you can get the portal even running in vmware.