Developer documentation updates for the week of July 15th, 2024

Hello Meta Quest Developers! Here are the latest developer.oculus.com documentation updates for the week of July 15th, 2024.

Updates:

• Introducing Acoustic Ray Tracing. Acoustic Ray Tracing is a new tool included in the Meta XR Audio SDK that simulate how sound propagates from its source to the listener based on actual game geometry. (Unity, Unreal)
• A new Unity topic Getting Started with Interaction SDK and Unity XR has been added. “Meta XR Interaction SDK Essentials for Unity can also integrate with Unity’s OpenXR and XR Hands packages enabling potential for cross platform development.”
• The Unity topic Mixed Reality Utility Kit Features has been updated with new guidance and screenshots. Additionally, the MRUKStart component has been deprecated and replaced with a SpawnOnStart property instead. 
• The Unity topic Mixed Reality Utility Kit Samples has been updated with new samples.
• The Unreal topic Mixed Reality Utility Kit Getting Started has been updated with new guidance for v66 and v67.
• The Unreal topic Passthrough Relighting has been updated with new guidance and troubleshooting.
• The topic Depth API for Unity has updated requirements, new info on permissions,  a new section on Using the API with code samples, guidance on shader graphs, and info on adding occluded objects to the scene.
• The topic Body Tracking for Movement SDK for Unity has updates for prerequisites, clarified steps for configuring the project, and other improvements.

Minor updates:

• The Platform Solutions topic Multiplayer Overview has minor updates for clarity (Unity, Native, Unreal)
• The following Unity topics have minor updates for clarity:
  • Get Started with OVRSceneManager using Building Blocks (deprecated)
  • Unity Plane and Volume Scene Sample (deprecated)
  • Use OVRSceneManager (deprecated)
• The Use Capsense topics have minor updates for clarity (Unity, Native, Unreal)
• The Use Simultaneous Hands and Controllers (Multimodal) topics have minor updates for clarity (Unity, Native)
• The Platform Solutions topic Achievements has minor updates for clarity (Unity, Native, Unreal)
• The Meta XR Simulator Introduction topic has minor updates for clarity (Unity, Native, Unreal)
• The Developer Tools topic Use Meta Quest Scriptable Testing Services to Enable E2E Testing has minor updates for clarity (Unity, Native, Unreal)
• The Platform Solutions topic Subscriptions has minor updates for clarity.
• The Platform Solutions topic In-App Purchase Server to Server APIs has minor updates for clarity (Unity, Native, Unreal)
• The Platform Solutions topic App Deep Linking has minor updates for clarity and improved images (Unity, Native, Unreal)
• The Passthrough topic Passthrough API Overview has minor updates for clarity (Unity, Unreal)
• A number of topics have been updated to remove outdated branding references.

Removed topics:

• The following Unity topics have been removed because they are now included in the MR Utility Kit samples:
• Unity Bouncing Ball Scene Tutorial
• Unity Bouncing Ball Scene Sample
• Unity Virtual Furniture Sample

Last week’s post:

• Developer documentation updates for the week of July 8th, 2024