What Is OpenXR? The Cross-Platform XR API Explained
OpenXR is Khronos's open API between XR apps and headset runtimes. How the loader, extensions and action system work, and what the standard still leaves out.
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XR Daily: OpenXR Makes Room for 3D Apps
OpenXR ratifies spatial containers for 3D app multitasking, a 29 KB JPEG XL encoder on WebGPU, Godot's XR jam winners, and China's XR playbook.
XR Daily: OpenXR Grows Windows
OpenXR ratifies spatial containers so apps share one space, PAYDAY ships a native Steam Frame build, and Plasticity 2026.2 adds Class A surfacing tools.
Gaussian Splatting, Three Years In: What Shipped, What Still Breaks
Khronos put splats inside glTF, SPZ 4 cut encode times again, and Quest 3 measurements show where the frame budget goes. A state of play for splats in XR.