Microsoft working with Dell, HP, HTC, Intel to bring Windows Holographic beyond HoloLens

At the Computex industry conference in Taiwan today, Microsoft is showing off new ways that people will be able to collaborate in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), even if they don’t have Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented reality (AR) headset. Toward that end, Microsoft is working with several partners to make it possible for more devices to run on top of the Windows Holographic platform.

No longer will people be limited to collaborating only with others who have the same hardware. To illustrate, headsets running on top of Windows — like the HTC Vive headset — will get new functionality, such that they can do things right next to HoloLens. It will even be possible to include mobile VR systems — imagine something like Google’s Daydream, but based on a phone running Windows 10 Mobile, not Android.