Microsoft is out to use Windows applications to do for modified reality what it did for personal computers: make them trivial.

The US technology giant on Wednesday announced that Windows applications already powering a broad variety of apparatus including HoloLens augmented reality headgear is being opened to associates interested in building apparatus for “mixed reality” encounters.

Apparatus constructed on the Windows platform will be interoperable, meaning that someone wearing HTC Vive virtual reality equipment would have the capacity to practically see and collaborate with someone using virtual reality goggles that were HoloLens, Microsoft executives told AFP.

The list of associates working with Microsoft comprised HP, and HTC, Lenovo, Asus.

Microsoft said it constructed HoloLens to showcase the possibility of the technology, which relies on identical Windows operating system that and more console.

Sharing the Windows platform will mean that virtual or augmented reality equipment from various producers will have the ability to work with one another.

Microsoft wouldn’t divulge details regarding how money will be made by it from the move. But it’s anticipated to pursue the types of licensing deals it negotiates with businesses that make Windows- .

Creating a common system for a broad range of businesses promote and to create mixed reality tools guarantees while enriching assortment in the market to bring down costs for modified reality equipment.

Microsoft in March started its first shipments of its HoloLens to program programmers, staking its location in what’s anticipated to become an emerging computing platform.

Planning to support new programs for the apparatus, Microsoft noted that programmers can create “new mixed reality” with holograms to empower users to see and experience things in new ways.

The holographic abilities in the Microsoft tools can open doors for developers to augment jobs from operation that is complicated to bike layout, based on the firm.

Marketers call virtual headsets will shortly top wish lists from Silicon Valley to Hong Kong for children and young adults. But some analysts say augmented reality will eclipses virtual reality within several years.