Khronos Group has approved OpenXR 1.1 standards.
Khronos Group has approved OpenXR 1.1 standards.
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Khronos Group releases OpenXR 1.1 spec for cross-platform XR development

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The Khronos Group, an open consortium dedicated to tech standards, announced the OpenXR 1.1 specification.

This release from the Khronos Group evolves the widely adopted OpenXR open API standard for high-performance, cross-platform access to VR, AR, and mixed reality (MR) — collectively known as XR—platforms and devices. OpenXR 1.1 consolidates widely used application programming interface (API) extensions into the core specification to reduce fragmentation and adds new functionality to streamline the development of more powerful and efficient XR applications, the group said.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.