FOSS Virtual & Augmented Reality | MiniDebConf Online: Gaming Edition

inward this talk will cover Monado and Khronos’ OpenXR standard, and give an overview about the current state of open source VR and what lies ahead. Also go into some details of how tracking is done within of Monado and show of the current state.

VR took off for the consumer with the release of Oculus consumer hardware. But the hardware lacked open source drivers and Linux support inward full general. The consumer VR space has now grown from a kickstarter campaign into a big manufacture. But this growth has its downwards sides, multiple companies have got their own APIs competing. Luckily these companies have got agreed to work on a single API under the Khronos umbrella. Now that OpenXR has been released and and the Monado project has been getting more stable it is now possible to do goodness VR on a completely open stack.

Presented by Jakob Bornecrantz.

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