Oculus Developer Release Notes: v19.1/1.51.1

Oculus Integration for Unity - v19.1

• Added support to display the system keyboard as an overlay on your app.
• Deprecated Oculus Go support. To develop apps for Oculus Go, use Oculus Integration v18.0 or prior. You can retrieve any prior versions of the Oculus Integration package from the Unity Integration Archive page.

• Updated the callback priority of PostGenerateGradleProject to improve the Android manifest generation.
• Removed the Queue Ahead project setting from OVRManager.
• OVRHeadsetEmulator will only set or restore the cursor lock mode when the emulator is activated or deactivated, instead of overriding the cursor lock mode every frame.

• Enforced minimum version of Oculus XR plugin 1.4.0 due to incompatibility with previous versions.
• Fixed errors in Unity 2020.2 because of usage of UnityEngine.Experimental.XR.Boundary in XR SDK.
• Fixed XRSDK warnings when using Unity 2020.1.x.
• Fixed significant performance regression in the Unity editor when using Oculus Rift S.
• Fixed the OVRPlugin.IsPerfMetricsSupported() method to return the correct value in development builds.

Unreal Engine 4 Integration

• Update OVRPlugin to v19 (1.51).
• Update Unreal Engine to 4.25.3 hotfix.
• Added keyboard overlay support. For more information, see Keyboard Overlays.
• Added option to disable translucency subpass to improve render speed.
• Oculus Go support deprecated. Please use v18 or earlier build if you develop on Oculus Go.

• Added several new samples. For more details, see Unreal Engine Samples.
• Updated input mappings in the MixedRealitySample.
• Deleted GoControllerSample due to Go deprecation.

• Numerous splash screen fixes.
• Moved ETextureCreateFlags from uint32 to a uint64 strongly-typed enum, and put foveation texture in the right layout.
• Made validation layer conformance change to adhere to Vulkan spec.

• If you are using the Oculus spatializer and try to create a new project or open an existing project with Unreal Engine 4.25, it may crash on opening.
• The Lipsync sample does not work with 4.25, and you should use an older version of Unreal Engine if you want to run this sample.
• The Avatar sample may not run as expected when deployed to a Quest device.

Platform SDK

• Maintenance release.

Avatar SDK

• Updates for Go deprecation.

Mobile SDK

• A new ovrTextureSwapChain creation method, vrapi_CreateTextureSwapchain4, and corresponding structure, ovrSwapChainCreateInfo, have been added to the API.
• A new ovrControllerType, ovrControllerType_StandardPointer, and corresponding structure, ovrInputStandardPointerCapabilities, have been added to the API.
• The vrapi_SetRemoteEmulation function has been removed from the API and should no longer be used.

Audio SDK

• Maintenance release that contains bug fixes and performance improvements.

Other Developer Updates

• A marketing attribution dashboard was recently added to help you track how effective your marketing efforts are. For more information, see Marketing Attribution Analytics.
• Looking to submit your app to the Oculus Store? Check out a new developer guide focused on the many best practices, recommendations, and insights to help you with technical review, passing the VRCs, and content review. Oculus Store - App Submission Success Guide.