If your company needs help with developing API layers, drafting extensions, developing runtimes, or testing runtime implementations and applications for the OpenXR API, LunarG can assist you. OpenXR is a new open-source software standard developed by the Khronos® community that provides developers with high-performance access to augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR)—collectively known as XR—platforms and devices. The new OpenXR standard provides the specification to create develop-once applications and games that can run across multiple hardware platforms with minimal modifications.
OpenXR is the interface between an application and an in-process or out-of-process “XR runtime.” The runtime handles such functionality as frame composition, view re-projection, headset management, and head and hand tracking information.
Optionally, a runtime may support device layer plugins that allow access to a variety of hardware across a commonly defined interface.
Promotes adoption of AR/VR by helping to eliminate confusion and fragmentation of different companies developing their own APIs
Enables games and other applications written to the OpenXR standard to work across a variety of hardware platforms without having to port or re-write code or develop proprietary SDKs
Greatly increases developer productivity; opens AR/VR solution providers to larger revenue options with multi-platform support
Provides platform vendors that support OpenXR with access to more applications
LunarG provides a wide range of OpenXR services. We provide optional support and warranties for our services, so you can rest assured your solution will continue to work smoothly after launch.
LunarG has a long-standing partnership with the Khronos Group, a technology consortium that works to develop advanced, royalty-free, acceleration standards for Augmented and Virtual Reality.
LunarG released an open source implementation of the experimental XR_EXTX_overlay extension, introduced in OpenXR 1.0.8. Refer to the following document for a description of the project.
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