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Overview

Hello World

Get Started

Develop Apps for Meta Quest devices

Set Up Unity

Set Up Your Headset

Explore Features with Building Blocks

Simulate Builds with XR Simulator

Unity and OpenXR Compatibility

Key terms

AI tools

AI tooling overview

Enable AI tools with MCP for Meta Horizon OS developers

Meta XR Unity MCP Extension

LLM resources for AI

Prompting best practices

Meta XR SDKs and Building Blocks

Meta XR SDKs Overview

Core SDK

Core SDK Overview

Core SDK Samples

Building Blocks Overview

Asynchronous Tasks

User Input and Interactions

Interactions

Interaction SDK Overview

Packages and Requirements

Setup Interaction SDK

Get Started with Interaction SDK

Use Interaction SDK with Unity XR

Features

Overview

Comprehensive Interaction Rig

Overview

Create the Comprehensive Interaction Rig

Create the UnityXR Interaction Rig

ComprehensiveRigExample Scene

ConcurrentHandsControllersExamples Scene

OpenXR Hand Skeleton

Overview

OpenXR Upgrade Dialog

Upgrade Custom Components

Quick Actions

Overview

OVR Interaction Rig Quick Action

UnityXR Interaction Rig Quick Action

Grab Quick Action

Distance Grab Quick Action

Ray Grab Quick Action

Teleport Quick Action

Poke Canvas Quick Action

Ray Canvas Quick Action

Creating UIs

Overview

UI Set

Creating UIs with UISet

Creating Pokeable UIs

Creating Ray-castable UIs

Create UIs with Prefabs

Unity Canvas Integration

Detecting a Hand Pose

Hand Pose Selector Recorder

GestureExamples Scene

BodyPoseDetectionExamples Scene

Secondary Interactions

Working with Hands

Hand Physics Capsules

Hand Visual

Get Hand Bone Position

Multi-SDK Integration Samples

Interactor Interactable Lifecycle

Interaction Broadcaster

Use Data

Controllers

Overview

Getting Started with Controller Input and Tracking

Render Controllers at Runtime

Touch Pro Controllers

Touch Plus Controllers

Add Controller Animations

Troubleshooting and Limitations

Body, Face, and Eye Tracking

Overview

Getting Started

Body Tracking

Natural Facial Expressions

Eye Tracking

Networking

Movement SDK building blocks

Samples

Body Tracking Samples

Natural Facial Expressions and Eye Tracking Samples

Tracked Keyboard sample

Enable System Keyboard Overlay

Introduction to Mixed Reality

Mixed Reality Utility Kit

Overview

Getting Started

Instant Placement with Environment Raycasting API

Manage and Query Scene Data

Place Content with Scene Data

Manipulate Scene Visuals

World Lock Colocation

Create Depth Perception

Unity’s XR.Oculus Usage

Troubleshooting and FAQ

Manage Scenes

Overview

Features

Spatial Data Permission

Use the Scene Model

High-Fidelity Room

Access Scene data with OVRAnchor

Samples

Overview

Mixed Reality Sample

Custom Scene Manager Sample

Troubleshooting

Best Practices

Migrate to MR Utility Kit

Deprecated

Get Started with OVRSceneManager

Tips, Tricks, and FAQ

Shared Spatial Anchors

Tutorial

Shared Spatial Anchors Sample

Best Practices

Shared Spatial Anchors Troubleshooting

Trackables

Passthrough Camera API

Overview

Getting Started

Unity Inference Engine

Migration from WebCamTexture to PassthroughCameraAccess

AI Building Blocks

Overview

Providers and Inference Types

Unity Inference Engine

Agents and Building Blocks

Adding new Providers

Troubleshooting and FAQ

Platform Solutions

Overview

Get Started

Getting Started Guide

Set Up for Platform Development

Set Up Platform Entitlements

Server-to-Server API Basics

Audio

Multiplayer Features

User Engagement

User Engagement Overview

User Notifications

Overview

Create User Notifications

Event-Based Notifications

Analytics

Developer Posts

Leaderboards

Leaderboard Client APIs

Leaderboard Server APIs

Events

Achievements

Challenges

Challenges Client APIs

Challenges Server APIs

Share Content from Meta Quest Apps

Monetization

Monetization Overview

Add-ons - DLC and IAP

Add-ons Purchase Integration

Add-ons Server APIs

Testing Add-ons

Subscriptions

Server APIs for Subscriptions

Social Features

Social Features Overview

Blocking

Parties and Party Chat

Mic Switcher

User Info, Friends and Relationships

Overview

Verify the User

Enable Friend Requests (Mobile)

User Management

User Management Overview

Entitlement Check

Cross-Play with Federated Authentication

Overview

API Reference

Create Federated User

Delete Federated User

Generate Federated User Access Token

Read Federated User

Read Federated Users

Update Federated User

Requiring Minimum OS Versions

Asset Files to Manage Download Size

Cloud Storage

Cloud Backup

Save Game Best Practices

Shader Compilation

Platform Services

Cross-Device Development with App Groupings

Webhooks

Sample Apps

Platform Reference

Platform Release Notes Archive

Meta Avatars

User Interface Features

Focus Awareness

Oculus Dash in Unity

The Boundary System

Create Interactive Boundaries

Boundaryless

Camera Features

The Meta XR Camera Rig

Virtual Camera Publisher

Add a Splash Screen

Mixed Reality Capture

Spectator Camera for Casting

Display and Rendering Capabilities

Fixed Foveated Rendering

Eye Tracked Foveated Rendering

Set Display Refresh Rates

Single Pass Stereo Rendering and Stereo Instancing

Set Specific Color Space

Asymmetric FOV FAQ

Application SpaceWarp Developer Guide

Forward+ Rendering

Graphics Jobs

Vulkan Subpasses

Performance and Optimization

Build and Test

Build

Project Configuration

Build Configuration

Optimize Build Iterations and Use Quick Scene Preview

Strip Unused Shaders

Cubemap Screenshots

Cross-Platform Development

Application lifecycle handling

Test

Use Meta Quest Scriptable Testing Services to Enable E2E Testing

Using AutoDriver to Record Inputs

Vulkan Validation Layers

OpenXR Plugin Settings

Meta Quest Developer Hub (MQDH)

MQDH overview

Get started with MQDH

Set up headset with MQDH

Manage your headset with MQDH

Create new XR projects in MQDH

MQDH debugging tools

Create a custom command

Performance analyzer and metrics

Overview

How to take Perfetto traces

Layer visibility control

Explore MQDH file manager

Add, remove, and switch between multi-user accounts

MQDH downloads

Deploy APK builds to headset devices

Troubleshooting MQDH

Submit and track bugs and feature requests

Link

Meta XR Simulator

Overview

Interaction Simulation

Simulate User Input from Keyboard, Mouse, and Xbox Game Controllers

Simulate User Input from Meta Quest Controllers

Point-and-Click

Simulate a Mixed Reality Environment

Test Rooms

Overview

Built-in Rooms

Build your room in the Synthetic Environment Builder

Android Debug Bridge for Meta Quest

Collect VrApi Logs with Logcat

Overview

Logcat Stats Definitions

Configure Android System Properties

Taking and Loading a Capture

Performing a Render Stage Trace

Performing a Draw Call Trace

Accessing Vulkan Shader Stats

OVR Metrics Tool Stats Definition Guide

Best Practices - OVR Metrics Tool for Non-Engineers

gpumeminfo

ovrgpuprofiler

Simpleperf

Quest Runtime Optimizer

Publish Your App

Prepare Your App for Publishing

Generate the Android Manifest File

Upload App from Unity

Sample Projects

Oculus SDK for Windows

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Updated: Oct 21, 2015|

Version

0.8.0.0-beta

Build VR apps for Rift and Rift S in C++ with the Oculus PC SDK. This tool is only supported on Windows.

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Virtual reality / Meta Horizon

Meta Horizon Creator Program

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Why Meta Quest?

What is mixed reality?

Platforms and tools

2D apps for Meta Horizon OS

Support and legal

About us

Virtual reality / Meta Horizon

Meta Horizon Creator Program

Discover

Why Meta Quest?

What is mixed reality?

Platforms and tools

2D apps for Meta Horizon OS

Support and legal

About us

Virtual reality / Meta Horizon

Meta Horizon Creator Program

Discover

Why Meta Quest?

What is mixed reality?

Platforms and tools

2D apps for Meta Horizon OS

Support and legal

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