OpenXR Specification 1.1.60

OpenXR Specification 1.1.60 (2026-05-20)

This release features a new multi-vendor extension and a number of quality and
correctness fixes to the specification. A number of extensions have also been
marked deprecated.

• Specification
  • New multi-vendor extension specification: XR_EXT_haptic_parametric allows
    triggering high-fidelity haptic vibrations.
    (internal MR 3307)
  • Change: Document XR_ANDROID_trackables and its child extensions as deprecated
    by various XR_EXT and XR_ANDROID spatial entity extensions, with
    deprecation notes in the specification.
    (internal MR 4228)
  • Fix: Correct documentation for VERY_STRICT in specification/Makefile.
    (internal MR 4294,
    internal issue 2742)
  • Fix: Add missing ref pages for constants defined in XR_ANDROID_eye_tracking
    and XR_ANDROID_face_tracking.
    (internal MR 4303,
    internal issue 2741)
  • Fix: Several broken internal cross-references in extensions.
    (internal MR 4328)
  • Improvement: Clean up specification for XR_EXT_eye_gaze_interaction, and
    resolve a question previously left unspecified.
    (internal MR 3498)
  • Improvement: Improve consistency of struct initialization patterns in adoc
    sample code, using designated initializers for clarity.
    (internal MR 4231,
    internal MR 4240,
    internal MR 4243)
  • Improvement: Enable warnings as errors in AsciiDoctor builds.
    (internal MR 4294,
    internal issue 2742)
  • Improvement: Fix mouse interaction profile name & clarify scroll component in
    the XR_ANDROID_mouse_interaction extension.
    (internal MR 4297)
  • Improvement: Silence warnings when generating style guide
    (internal MR 4300)
  • Scripts: Replace findBareNormatives.sh with findBareNormatives.py to make
    it easier to run cross-platform and easier to build on top of, and populate a
    bare_normatives_allowlist.txt file to list (current) known exceptions to bare
    normative rules.
    (internal MR 4286,
    internal MR 4320)
  • Scripts: Add findBareNormatives.py to make check-spec-links.
    (internal MR 4286,
    internal MR 4286)
  • Style Guide: Update schema to document deprecation expressions referring to
    more than one extension, as well as the <extend type="command"> tag for
    extending return codes for a function.
    (internal MR 4228,
    internal MR 4228,
    internal issue 2494,
    internal MR 4009)
• Registry
  • New multi-vendor extension: XR_EXT_haptic_parametric
    (internal MR 3307)
  • Change: Deprecate HoloLens 2 related extensions.
    (internal MR 4133)
  • Change: Mark XR_ANDROID_trackables and its child extensions as deprecated by
    various XR_EXT and XR_ANDROID spatial entity extensions.
    (internal MR 4228)
  • Fix: Add comment for enum value XR_SPACE_COMPONENT_TYPE_ROOM_MESH_META in
    xr.xml.
    (internal MR 4292,
    internal issue 2740)
  • Fix: Add comment for result value
    XR_BOUNDARY_VISIBILITY_SUPPRESSION_NOT_ALLOWED_META in xr.xml.
    (internal MR 4293,
    internal issue 2739)
  • Fix: Mark XrSessionCreateInfoOverlayEXTX::createFlags as optional.
    (internal MR 4302)
  • Fix: Update XrFoveationEyeTrackedProfileCreateInfoMETA to mark flags as
    optional
    (internal MR 4317,
    internal MR 4317)
  • Improvement: Add schematron validation for optional required for empty bit
    flags.
    (internal MR 4317,
    internal issue 2745)
  • Scripts: Handle deprecation expressions referring to multiple extensions.
    (internal MR 4228)