A Platform Agnostic Solution for Inter-Communication between Virtual Reality Devices

Virtual Reality (VR) allows users to interact with intuitive environments to manipulate games, applications and even other Internet of Things (IoT) devices. VR devices have been brought to users by different vendors, supporting different development platforms and features. Many VR applications, however, do not support simultaneous VR devices from different vendors. The few applications that support this feature are not open to developers, with little information on their implementation and application performance. Using VRTK and Unity, this paper intends to present a VR application that supports multiple VR hardware platforms with the use of the VRTK SDK along with the appropriate VR hardware SDKs. This application supports multiple users in a VR environment where they can interact with each other and with objects in the VR space. Other features such as file transfer over the VR application are also supported. Such an application is important to allow developers to design future applications that support multiple devices regardless of the vendor, creating convenient multiuser VR applications with less limitations.