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Acer Windows Mixed Reality - 3.0 / 5

What is Microsoft Mixed Reality?

Can your machine run Windows Mixed Reality?

  • Windows 10 Fall Creators Update 7th Gen Intel Core i5 with Hyper-Threading (notebooks) or 6th Gen Intel Core i5 (desktop) NVIDIA GTX 965M or greater, or AMD RX 460™ or greater HDMI 1.4 or HDMI 2.0 port support 8 GB RAM USB 3.0 Port

The bold blue design

  • 2.89-inch diagonal display 1400 x 1400 resolution 3.5mm headphone jack 105-degree field of view Up to 90hz refresh rate

Setup and installation

Pairing the controllers

  • Bluetooth connected controllers 4 x AA batteries required No recharge capability

Downsides of the accessible design 

Access to Mixed Reality content and the Virtual Reality environment

Mixed Reality games, apps and the Windows experience

  • 64 games in the Microsoft Store Steam VR compatibility coming soon

To recap

The Acer Windows Mixed Reality headset is one of the cheapest of the current offerings of Mixed Reality headsets and it, unfortunately, shows during testing. This headset has a lot of promise, but fails to deliver when compared with other devices currently available.