VR: Open Source and Standards

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Jakob describes the open-source response to consumer VR hardware lacking Linux drivers by outlining the OpenHMD project (open drivers for VR/AR) and his involvement. He then explains the fragmentation of vendor APIs in the growing VR industry and reviews Khronos’s OpenXR standard as the single API effort, plus the current state and future of open-source VR.

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1. 0:00VR and open standards
2. 3:41VR promotion origins
3. 8:01Collaboration in VR
4. 13:03Open VR challenges
5. 16:26VR standards evolution
6. 20:20VR and mobile integration
7. 24:07Summary and conclusions

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