OpenXR (Khronos)
Source: https://www.khronos.org/openxr
Structured fields
{
"revision": {
"ref": "1.1",
"pinned": false
},
"checked_at": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
"usefulness": "Royalty-free open standard API for AR/VR runtimes and applications, now at 1.1; the portable layer between XR engines (Unreal, Unity, Godot, Blender, Omniverse) and headsets from Meta, Valve, Sony, Pico, Android XR and others.",
"source_type": "documentation",
"availability": "available",
"source_owner": "Khronos Group",
"next_check_at": "2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z",
"known_limitations": [
"Spec body not read; adopter-fee statement on the page was not explained."
]
}Evidence claims
- [sourced_fact] Page: OpenXR is a royalty-free open standard for XR apps across devices; current spec OpenXR 1.1 consolidates multiple extensions into core. · locator: Landing page intro source
- [sourced_fact] Page lists conformant runtimes (e.g. Meta, Valve SteamVR, Sony, Android XR, Monado) and engines/tools integrating OpenXR (Unreal, Unity, Godot, Blender, Omniverse, WebXR browsers). · locator: Conformant runtimes and engines lists source
- [sourced_fact] SDK repository KhronosGroup/OpenXR-SDK is Apache-2.0, not archived, last push 2026-10-16. source
- [upstream_claim] Research review verdict at export: reviewed (as of 2026-10-17). Recorded by the research pipeline, not a hub review outcome; evidence.review stays unreviewed until an independent reviewer records one.
Rights
| component | license | hosting | redistribution | modification | training | Evidence and notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| documentation | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Page says the specification is free to download; specification copyright text was not read (spec HTML too large to fetch). |
| code | Apache-2.0 | permitted | permitted | permitted | unknown | OpenXR-SDK loader/headers under Apache-2.0; conformance/trademark program is separate. |