Da Microsoft annonserte sitt samarbeid med Oculus var det mange som tolket det som et forsøk på å kaste seg inne i VR-kampen mot blant andre Sony og deres Morpheus.
Så enkelt er det imidlertid ikke ifølge Xbox-sjefen Phil Spencer. Han sier nå at det først og fremst er en satsning for Windows 10, men han utelukker ikke Xbox One i fremtiden samtidig som han berømmer Sony for deres arbeid:
"I like the fact that the industry's innovating with VR - and I include Morpheus in that, I applaud Sony for the work they're doing.
Where we are in the adoption of VR, Windows is just a better platform. You've got 100s of VR games in development, it's an open platform, somebody can download Windows and get their C compiler and start doing work. We're early enough that getting hundreds of different creative minds thinking about what's happening - whether it's on Oculus or Valve's VR - is really what the industry needs."
Han forklarer hvorfor han ikke tror på et lukket virtual reality-system og fortsetter:
"Linking it to a closed platform this early, and a handful of games that any dedicated platform is going to go fund, I don't think VR is at that point. I think the openness of Windows is the right way to approach it - which is why we spent time with Oculus and Valve in making sure Windows is a great platform for VR."
På spørsmål om det kan bli aktuelt å slippe noe VR-relatert til Xbox One, svarer Spencer at det er opp til spillerne:
"I'll let consumers choose. If they say that VR plugged into a console is the way they want to adopt VR... I love the fact we're working with the companies of VR, and our work on HoloLens is an extension of that, there's no 'VR is a bad thing'. We're just choosing to focus our efforts in the PC space. But if people want to adopt VR on a console platform, we wouldn't have any problem to keep that as an option."