As it stands, your WMR headset uses WMR to connect to the machine and SteamVR uses an adapter to connect to WMR (you may have noticed the “SteamVR for Windows Mixed Reality” download or whatever it is called). That would be broken if WMR is outright disabled or not available for download.
There ARE theoretically workarounds where OpenXR or something similar is used instead. But the ones I have seen that bypass WMR/Oculus Link/whatever are, to put it lightly, Janky as all fuck.
So I wouldn’t outright throw a WMR in the bin but I would actively discourage spending any money on one. Which, to be fair, is where I have been with my HP Reverb G2 since I switched to full Linux.
Even if they remove WMR for Steam, we should still be able to use SteamVR though yeah?
It depends
As it stands, your WMR headset uses WMR to connect to the machine and SteamVR uses an adapter to connect to WMR (you may have noticed the “SteamVR for Windows Mixed Reality” download or whatever it is called). That would be broken if WMR is outright disabled or not available for download.
There ARE theoretically workarounds where OpenXR or something similar is used instead. But the ones I have seen that bypass WMR/Oculus Link/whatever are, to put it lightly, Janky as all fuck.
So I wouldn’t outright throw a WMR in the bin but I would actively discourage spending any money on one. Which, to be fair, is where I have been with my HP Reverb G2 since I switched to full Linux.