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Valve Releases OpenVR SDK

Written by Michael Larabel in Valve on 30 April 2015 at 04:39 PM EDT. 6 Comments

Valve Software today released the OpenVR SDK, an API and runtime that allows accessing virtual reality hardware from multiple vendors without requiring the applications be specifically targeting that platform.

The OpenVR SDK is basically an abstraction layer for game/application developers to easily target that in turn has back-end support for the HTC Vive Developer Edition, SteamVR controller, and Lighthouse.

More details on the OpenVR SDK can be found via today's announcement while this VR software development kit is hosted over on GitHub.

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