Let’s hope that Oculus will also support the OpenVR SDK. (I think it did before version 0.60 of the Oculus SDK). OpenVR does have Linux and OSx versions, not sure how polished they are.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr/wiki/API-Documentation

We are _not_ supporting the Rift in 1040. I am only stating that if Oculus ships Windows only, that we will be restricted to that subset when we ship support.

I also have no idea what support will be like for dev-kits. We are entirely limited by what is possible in the Oculus SDK. The Oculus SDK changes approximately once a month, so for now the only thing we can guarantee is that we -won’t- do what Oculus has made impossible.

Hi Paul,

It’s too soon and the market is too fragmented to have a viable general solution. Hopefully we’ll get there someday. To the extent that the Rift is a high profile project with actual dev hardware, we’ve been trying to use their SDK. Once there is another company at that level we’ll have to consider how cross-headset tech can work. We’re a long way from OpenVR or some generic API.

Irrespective of that, I have a question: Why are you concentrating so much on getting a VR solution out there which only works with the Rift? I understand that there is considerable excitement out there surrounding the HTC Vive, and there are other VR headsets announced (Steam, for example), and released, including low budget hacks like Google cardboard. Wouldn’t it be better to focus on a generic VR solution which can easily be adapted to several or all of the physical hardware options?

Or is that what you are actually doing anyway?

Or do I not know what I am talking about, and its much more complex than that?!