Meta and OpenXR

At Meta, our core philosophy is that a vibrant, multi-platform development community is critical to the success of spatial and immersive computing. Since 2016, we’ve played a major role in pioneering the OpenXR standard and have invested heavily to ensure its success by benefiting developers building cross-platform.

Starting with our v74 SDK, available next week, the built-in OpenXR path for all major game engines will be a recommended path for development. Developers building on Unity, Unreal and Godot can leverage OpenXR to build across platforms and access Meta platform plugins to add features unique to Horizon OS. Dive in to learn more about OpenXR paths for each engine.

Below you can learn how to leverage OpenXR using recommended development paths for Unity, Unreal and Godot:

Since ensuring that our OpenXR runtimes for Meta Quest and PC were 100% OpenXR compliant in 2019, we have pushed to continue advancing OpenXR as a viable cross-device solution. We are continuously creating new XR technologies to enable unique and immersive experiences, exposed as OpenXR extensions. We also build libraries to support these new extensions. As part of our commitment to OpenXR, we contribute these advancements back to the community, allowing other companies to adopt and build upon them.

In fact, Meta has contributed to 33 (~67%) of Khronos and cross-vendor extensions, as well as 61 vendor-specific extensions. Among those vendor-specific extensions, many of them (e.g. SpaceWarp, foveation, passthrough, etc.) are adopted by other OpenXR vendors for the better interoperability with apps that were originally developed for Meta devices. These contributions have been adopted by other vendors who recognize Meta's dedication to advancing the industry and contributing back to the standard.

As early adopters of OpenXR, Meta has contributed significant resources to both expanding the standard and enabling OpenXR support in popular game engines. We remain committed to OpenXR and will continue to invest in the success of OpenXR and our developers.

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