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Global sales of AR and VR headsets like Microsoft's HoloLens 2 dropped by nearly a quarter last year, continuing a trend that has seen interest fall off for the once promising technology.
Companies have continued to cut jobs in 2025 after a wave of layoffs last year. Meta, Microsoft, BlackRock, and Ally are among those shedding staff.
The layoffs hitting the gaming industry are largely the result of a handful of trends coalescing. The chief overarching issue comes down to publishers and developers overspending throughout 2021 ...
Microsoft will lay off roughly 1,900 people in its gaming division, according to a company memo seen by CNBC.The cuts come in conjunction with Blizzard president Mike Ybarra announcing he would ...
Microsoft recognizes 8 video game unions [α] representing 2,000 [β] video game workers. [4] [5] Microsoft like other tech companies, has historically resisted unions and relied on temporary workers with lower pay and job security than regular employees. Microsoft changed course in 2014 with the appointment of Brad Smith, Microsoft's new ...
In October 2017, Microsoft officially launched Windows Mixed Reality and a lineup of third-party headsets for use with the Windows 10 "Fall Creators Update" (including a launch lineup of headsets from Acer, Dell, HP, and Lenovo, and future products from Asus and Samsung), officially referred to as Windows Mixed Reality immersive headsets. [31]
The news comes months after Microsoft closed its $69 billion deal for Activision Blizzard, boosting its heft in the videogaming market with best-selling titles, including "Call of Duty", to better.
Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) is an open-source software development kit (SDK) developed by Microsoft in 2016 for the development of mixed reality (MR) and augmented reality (AR) software applications. [1] [2] It consists of a collection of components and features designed to enhance the mixed reality user and developer experiences. [3]