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NeedForLightSpeed
Up and Coming
October 14, 2023

Native Mesh and Depth API

Hi There,

Yesterday Meta released two new APIs in the form of Unity and Unreal plugins for accessing depth map and scene mesh data from the Quest 3, however yet again I feel native developers have been left in the dark. I also know WebXR has these features given the talk at connect this year. However, what about people developing their own engines or games natively for VR/MR on Quest ? 

I'm not sure if it's possible to access the scene mesh via XR_FB_triangle_mesh in OpenXR ? But certainly it doesn't look like any depth extension is present. 

Please can we have feature parity for OpenXR, or at least release the APIs for native developers. I'm not sure if any devs at Meta read these posts ? 

Thank you. 

    2 replies

    LordSirSgtJeffrey
    Up and Coming
    October 15, 2023

    NeedForLightSpeedThere is an unpublished extension for accessing environment depth maps, you can get the headers from the "Oculus Mobile OpenXR SDK" v57, extension name is XR_METAX1_environment_depth, the header file is metax1_environment_depth.h 

      NeedForLightSpeed
      NeedForLightSpeedAuthor
      Up and Coming
      October 15, 2023

      Thanks for that info, much appreciated 🙂 

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