A number of companies, including Razer, under the name of OSVR is an open platform for virtual reality gaming has been announced. The open platform must provide open source apis and software, but there is also spoken about benjamin franklin was.
The Open Source Virtual Reality platform, according to the initiators of the project become an open standard in the field of software and hardware for virtual reality applications. Especially games, are central. Currently developing companies often own software and hardware. It takes that extra effort to all vr devices for new content to support it. The OSVR platform supports according to the developers Android, Linux and Windows, and several popular game engines such as Unity 3D and Unreal Engine 4.
The promoters, including the company Razer, also have a hacker developer kit is developed. With a 3d printer would be a own vr glasses can be made. The necessary 3d files would download. Those who do not have the necessary hardware, from June 2015, the developmentkit buy for $ 199.99. Converted will the to 168 euro. The package consists of a virtual-realitybril and the open-source vr software.