Oculus Developer Release Notes: v35

Production release of Voice SDK API lets you bring voice interactions to your app.

Experimental release of Spatial Anchors, part of the Facebook Presence Platform, is now available. Spatial Anchors are world-locked frames of reference you can use as origin points to place content that can persist across sessions. When you use Spatial Anchors together with the Passthrough API, you can resume mixed reality sessions and restore content to the same real world locations where users left them. Note: Experimental APIs are for research and development only and must not ship in production apps.

You can now use a mobile phone to produce a mixed reality footage with the new Mobile Mixed Reality Camera feature.

Hand tracking is supported with the OpenXR backend. This brings OpenXR-based OVRPlugin functionally back in line with hand-tracking provided in the legacy OVRPlugin. All the hand tracking properties such as hand skeleton, capsules, mesh, scale, pinches, pointer pose, input metadata flags, and active controller, are all supported.

With the OpenXR backend, OVRDisplay.displayFrequency can be used on PC after app starts

Unity Controller Model prefabs which were not hiding when Oculus Dash was displayed

Potential Asynchronous SpaceWarp marshalling issue by using OVRPlugin.Bool

A crash in GetTrackingTransformRelativePose when it is called before an OpenXR session is established

Removed the signature of AddSurfaceGeometry which takes an additional transformation as parameter. AddSurfaceGeometry automatically handles all Unity to device coordinate transformations now.

Renamed Unity API functions from SetSpacewarp to SetSpaceWarp

Allow changing surface type to OVRPassthroughLayer until it's created internally

If a session state happens to end the session, xrSession will be delayed until the current in flight frame is finished. Previously, xrSession ended while frames were in flight which caused a lock up.

Enhanced the OVR Scene Quick Preview user experience flow

The Thumb0 bone pose do not pinch all the way and there is about a 1/8 of an inch gap between the index finger and thumb when using the system gestures.

Mixed Reality Capture on Rift is not supported in OpenXR. Workaround: In the Unity editor, go to the Oculus > Tools > OpenXR > Switch to Legacy OVRPlugin menu to switch to the VRAPI backend to continue using Rift MRC. Find detailed information in the Switch between OpenXR and Legacy VRAPI documentation.

GetAppPerfStats and ResetAppPerfStats are currently not supported with the OpenXR backend. Workaround: In the Unity editor, go to the Oculus > Tools > OpenXR > Switch to Legacy OVRPlugin menu to switch to the VRAPI backend to continue using Rift MRC. Find detailed information in the Switch between OpenXR and Legacy VRAPI documentation.

Fast movement or teleportation with Application Space Warp in Unity can have some artifacts. Workaround: Move SetAppSpacePosition/SetAppSpaceRotation to LateUpdate to guarentee that all movement logic has been run before sending new app space pose to the XR plugin.

Changing modes in Lipsync_Demo on Oculus Quest is currently not supported.

If you're using the Spectator Camera feature and you switch the view, the casting video is flipped upside down. Workaround: Set SetMrcFrameImageFlipped to false. For more information, see the Known Issues section in the Spectator Camera user guide.

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OVRPlugin updated to 1.67.0

Production release of Passthrough API lets you build and test apps that seamlessly blend the real and virtual worlds and open up new possibilities for mixed reality experiences. You’ll be able to customize the look and feel of Passthrough within your app, including composite Passthrough layers with other VR layers, styling and rendering Passthrough images to a custom geometry. With the Production release, Apps using Passthrough API can now ship to the store.

Application SpaceWarp now works correctly with Landscape Actors.

Apps that use Application Space Warp no longer crash if the MSAA level is changed while the app is running.

An issue with PSO cache hashes have been corrected and the correct shader is now selected for the main render pass if using PSO with multiview. If you were affected by this issue, rebuild the PSOCaching .csv file.

Visual Studio Code now displays UE4 datatypes.

Hand tracking in the OVRPlugin OpenXR backend is currently restricted to the hand tracking features defined in the OpenXR specification, and Oculus hand tracking features such as collision capsules, hand input metadata, and runtime hand meshes are not available. In addition, there is an issue with the Thumb0 thumb trapezium in the OVRPlugin OpenXR backend. Oculus hand tracking features are fully functional in the Legacy OVRPlugin backend, which you can enable in Project Settings > Plugins- OculusVR > XR API.

Mixed Reality Capture (MRC) on Oculus Rift is not supported in the OpenXR backend. If you need to use MRC, change Project Settings > Plugins- OculusVR > XR API to Legacy OVRPlugin.

Cloud Backup - A new Cloud Backup solution is available to manage saved user data in the cloud. See more in the Cloud Backup documentation.

Developer Dashboard: Developers can use the developer dashboard release channels to manage debuggable builds. Developers can upload debuggable builds to any non-public channel in the developer dashboard.

A marketing attribution dashboard was recently added to help you track how effective your marketing efforts are. For more information, see Marketing Attribution Analytics.