Collabora: Moving the Linux desktop to another reality

The Collabora blog announcessome ongoing work to integrate Linux desktop environments with head-mounteddisplays. "In contrast to these approaches xrdesktop aims to integrate into existing Linux desktop environments, eliminating the necessity of running a dedicated compositor for only VR and thus making it usable in current setups. For our initial release, we focused on integration in the most popular Linux desktops, GNOME and KDE, but xrdesktop is designed to be integrated into any desktop. This can be done with Compiz-like plugins as for KWin or patches on the compositor in the case of GNOME Shell.This integration of xrdesktop into the window managers enables mirroring existing windows into XR and to synthesize desktop input through XR actions."