At the Games Developers Conference in San Francisco, the Khronos Group has published the first, provisional release of the augmented reality and virtual reality API: OpenXR 0.90. The goal is to allow the general public to implement it into their software so they can provide feedback (via the official forums) before it launches into 1.0.
The last time we’ve mentioned OpenXR was SIGGRAPH back in August. That event had a demo area on the show floor with the Epic Showdown VR demo, which evolved into Robo Recall. On that end, Epic plans to continue support for OpenXR, and they pride themselves as the engine that powers the original demo. Unity has also responded positively to OpenXR, but their quoted statement doesn’t make any specific promises. Microsoft and Collabora are each, separately, providing hardware implementations of the new API. Oculus plans to support the API when it reaches 1.0 status. HTC also wants to support OpenXR with the Vive, although Valve is nowhere to be seen on the list of quotes. Google is also nowhere to be seen on the list.
You can check out the press release on the Khronos Group website.
