Microsoft’s new open model for Windows and HoloLens 2 impresses Epic’s Tim Sweeney

Microsoft unveiled its latest HoloLens 2 headset at an event at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona yesterday. While the headset has all the tech improvements you might expect, Microsoft surprised the industry with some solid commitments to being open in what it calls “the third era of computing.” Microsoft technical fellow and HoloLens inventor Alex Kipman made three key commitments for the company’s Mixed Reality platform:

1. “We believe in an open app store model. Developers will have the freedom to create their own stores.”
2. “We believe in an open web browsing model.”
3. “We believe in an open API surface area and driver model.”

These significant commitments see Microsoft returning to a more open platform for Windows. “As leaders in mixed...

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