E130 - What's up, OpenXR? with Frédéric Plourde

Spatial Realities (english) · Jun 4, 2026 · 1h 15m

Thomas Riedel

Thomas Bedenk

Frédéric Plourde

This interview was originally sourced during my coverage of XR Expo.

Frédéric is always wearing two hats, he repeats whenever he can. One is as the head of the XR Division at Collabora. The other is the hat of an Outreach Officer for OpenXR. When you work with him as a journalist, you recognize that immediately. He is always aware of what he can and cannot say, driven by the politics within his organizations. That includes negotiations about which passages stay in the podcast and which do not. Only three small parts were removed from our original…