Microsoft today announced that Acer’s first mixed reality headset will ship to developers later this month, making it the standard development edition for the Windows Holographic platform. The news, shared onstage this morning at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, means that Microsoft is moving fast to try and expand its augmented and virtual reality ambitions beyond the HoloLens headset. The company first announced that it would be partnering with device manufacturers for Windows Holographic products back in October.

Mixed reality is essentially a blending of AR and VR that can let you both bring real-world objects into a virtual space and render virtual objects in a real-world environment. It relies on cameras attached…

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