OpenXR standard development and adoption (2016–2023)

1. Khronos announces the OpenXR initiative

   Feb 27, 2017Labels: Khronos Group, GDC 2017

   • OpenXR Wiki
   • Khronos GDC

2. OpenXR standard development begins in Khronos

   Apr 1, 2017Labels: Khronos Group, OpenXR Working

   • Khronos Blog
   • OpenXR Wiki

3. First public OpenXR demos shown at SIGGRAPH

   Aug 1, 2018Labels: SIGGRAPH 2018, Khronos Group

   • Khronos Blog

4. OpenXR 0.90 provisional specification released

   Mar 18, 2019Labels: OpenXR 0, Khronos Group

   • Khronos PR

5. OpenXR 1.0 specification is released

   Jul 29, 2019Labels: OpenXR 1, SIGGRAPH 2019

   • Khronos PR
   • Phoronix

6. OpenXR Adopters Program and CTS are launched

   Jul 7, 2020Labels: Adopters Program, Conformance Test

   • Khronos Blog
   • OpenXR CTS

7. Oculus Quest 2 runtime becomes OpenXR conformant

   Oct 15, 2020Labels: Oculus Quest, Meta

   • Khronos Conformance

8. Microsoft OpenXR runtime becomes OpenXR conformant

   Nov 3, 2020Labels: Microsoft, HoloLens 2

   • Khronos Conformance

9. HTC VIVE runtimes become OpenXR conformant

   Dec 10, 2020Labels: HTC, VIVE Cosmos

   • Khronos Conformance

10. Valve SteamVR becomes OpenXR 1.0 conformant

    Feb 25, 2021Labels: Valve, SteamVR

    • Khronos Conformance

11. Monado open-source runtime becomes OpenXR conformant

    Feb 27, 2021Labels: Monado, Collabora

    • Khronos Conformance

12. OpenXR 1.1 is released, promoting extensions

    Apr 15, 2024Labels: OpenXR 1, Khronos Group

    • Khronos PR
    • Khronos Archive