Razer leads OSVR coalition to build the open-source ‘Android of Virtual Reality’

Jan06

by Sindy Cator on January 6, 2015 at 3:11 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, CES, Gadgets, Insider, oculus rift, OSVR, Razer

Razer has teamed up with a bunch of other companies involved with virtual reality, gaming and gesture controls, including Unity, Leap Motion, Sixense, Nod and Gearbox Software, to launch Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR). The aim of OSVR is to create a standardized interface for building virtual reality apps and games. Razer is showing its OSVR Hacker Dev Kit at CES and will make the headset available to the public in June. While OSVR potentially offers an alternative to Oculus’s efforts, it will work with the latest version of the Oculus dev kit so you won’t have to choose between them.…