Moving forward to OpenXR!
What an amazing ride! Earlier this year, Microsoft and Oculus started shipping conformant OpenXR runtimes to all customers, with SteamVR and HTC previewing OpenXR support soon after. Since then, we've seen wide adoption of OpenXR across the industry: from the new RenderDragon engine in Minecraft to the WebXR implementation in Edge and Chrome – from Babylon Native to Blender 2.83. With OpenXR, you can build engines and apps that target HoloLens 2 with the same API that you use to target PC VR headsets, including Windows Mixed Reality headsets, Oculus Rift headsets and (currently in developer preview) SteamVR headsets. OpenXR lets engines write code once that's then portable across hardware platforms from a wide range of VR and AR vendors.#MixedRealityChallenge: StereoKit
November is a great time to get familiar with https://stereokit.net/, a code-first, open-source library for building mixed reality experiences using C# and OpenXR. We’ve released a https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlrxD0HtieHjrKH44ZUatzfM8fXt2CmWv and are hosting an https://mixed-reality-stereokit.devpost.com/ to introduce this easy-onramp project to more developers so we can collect feedback and assess interest.
MRTK 2.7 is Out Now with Official Support for OpenXR
On May 27 th , 2021 we released MRTK 2.7, so you know we had to be up to something special. This release brings official support for OpenXR as we move the Mixed Reality Toolkit to Unity 2020.3 LTS. In addition, we’ve packed in a bunch of new features and bug fixes to improve the developer experience for Mixed Reality Devs. Like what you see? Download MRTK today from the https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/mixed-reality/develop/unity/welcome-to-mr-feature-tool or from https://github.com/microsoft/MixedRealityToolkit-Unity/releases.
