Oculus Rift users will now have to get Windows 10 to access the best it offers The high-end VR system will still work with Windows 7 or 8.1, but it will likely not support many new apps and features.

The blog post says that new beta features like a “redesigned Home experience, app and window multitasking in Dash, and Oculus Desktop’s mirror monitors” require Windows 10 to work.

Oculus Rift owners who also have an X box One console will pretty soon be able to stream their Xbox One games to their VR headset connected to a Windows 10 PC. It is an expansion of the ability to ...

Whether you're using your Oculus Rift with the Oculus app or SteamVR, streaming gameplay to Mixer is relatively easy. In either case, it involves using the Windows 10 Game Bar.

According to Oculus, the vast majority of the active Rift owners (95 percent) run Windows 10 anyway. It's not clear how exactly Oculus classifies the most active users versus everyone else.

A lack of apps has been the biggest thorn in the side of Microsoft's mixed reality efforts. One way to get around it is to use apps that were designed for Oculus Rift instead.

Now that you know how to make SteamVR work with Microsoft's Mixed Reality environment, it's time to actually run apps that are designed for the Oculus Rift.