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# Welcoming the libsurvive project

**[Collabora Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/collabora)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Collabora has taken ownership of libsurvive, an open source lighthouse tracking library enabling 6DoF tracking on SteamVR 1.0 and 2.0 devices. Two members of Collabora's XR team will serve as official maintainers. The project integrates with Monado, the open source cross-platform XR runtime, and can run on any device. The previous maintainers stepped back due to other commitments.

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### What devices and SteamVR generations does libsurvive support?

Libsurvive supports both SteamVR 1.0 and SteamVR 2.0 generations of devices and can run on any device. It provides 6DoF tracking on lighthouse and Vive-based systems and integrates easily with Monado, the cross-platform open source XR runtime.

_Developers building XR applications on open hardware track ecosystem moves like this on daily.dev._

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