Going open source is a really good move," said Eric Abbruzzese, a senior analyst at ABI Research.
There is one other open source initiative in the market, but it's very small, he noted.
"Intel, because they're a massive company -- they have a lot of reach. When you combine that with Windows, you have a really massive market," he told TechNewsWorld.
"That enables tons of developers, tons of content to flood in," he said, "and that's going to solve the content starvation problem we've seen in VR.