Were you expecting a Virtual Reality headset for the Xbox? At Microsoft they are not clear about it and they would have slowed down its development

Microsoft has been working on its Augmented Reality project for some time, the one we all know as Windows Mixed Reality. It is about bringing this field closer to users through collaborations with the different partners it has in the market. A development that made us think about the possible arrival of Virtual Reality on the Xbox.

It is not unreasonable, because it is enough to remember how its greatest rival, the PlayStation 4, already has an accessory in the form of Virtual Reality glasses, the PlayStation VR.And far from what many could expect, it seems that from the American company they are not so clear Such is the point that even right now it seems that they have suspended any work they were developing in this regard.

Waiting for an improvement in technology

CNET was the medium that revealed the slowdown suffered by the development of a product of this type by Microsoft . Despite the statements that Mike Nichols, marketing director of the company's games division, made at the time, in which he stated that the company was not engaged in launching a Virtual Reality headset for the Xbox, the truth is It seems that yes, that they had something on their hands.

A development that apparently could have been stopped due to the obstacles they encountered when launching a product that out of your total satisfaction.Despite the search for developers to work on the project, the limitations of current technology would have made it inadvisable to stop development.

Apparently the main problem was given by the problems offered by wireless connectivity, since having to use cables is not something they apparently were considering. In addition, the cost of development and the possible final price would mean that, in principle, the acceptance among the public was not clear, all of them factors that together would have advised a slowdown at the time of a possible development and subsequent launch.

There is no information about what would be the specifications of the hull they would have been working on, so we can only wait to decide to resume the project or leak some information about it.

Source | CNET