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ValveSoftware
openvr
C++2015–2019
ValveSoftware / openvr

openvr

OpenVR SDK

14Distinct people
16Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
6.7KGitHub stars
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OpenVR SDK

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HN mentions by year16 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-04-30 19:15:47 UTC to 2019-11-21 20:03:44 UTC.

0369122015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 0 submissions, 11 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC11011
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Oculus Tiny Room is linked, but Valve also has a pretty good minimal Vulkan + OpenVR example in the OpenVR SDK called hellovr_vulkan (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr/blob/master/samples/...). On HN this might be attractive because people tend to complain about Windows only software, and all of Valve's samples use SDL and in theory run on Mac OS X and Linux. The OpenVR example is a little bit more verbose, but it does have some extra functionality, like drawing render models (controllers) provided by the API.
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