[jade-cat]

Wonder what's the story behind this not being made by the Khronos Group. Especially since, at least according to Wikipedia, it's based on Vladimir Vukićević's work.

The name choice is interesting. If one of the first things in your FAQ is "the name probably made you think this is thing X. it's not", then maybe there was a flaw in your naming process.

[dmarcos]

If you want Apple involved they don’t like working under Khronos. IP disputes in the past. See also WebGPU

API started as WebVR, was renamed to WebXR since now accommodates more than VR (AR, MR…)

I worked with Vlad at Mozilla in the early WebVR days (I co-design while at Mozilla and now maintain A-Frame)

[bckr]

I think this is the wrong post

[jade-cat]

I'm talking about WebXR, which is for some reason the name of the standard developed by W3C.

"As such it may seem like WebXR and OpenXR have a relationship like WebGL and OpenGL, where the web API is a near 1:1 mapping of the native API. This is not the case with WebXR and OpenXR, as they are distinct APIs being developed by different standards bodies."

from https://github.com/immersive-web/webxr/blob/master/explainer...