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motorsep
Inspiring
August 4, 2016

[Gear VR] Vulkan API support soon ?

Just wondering if Oculus already working toward Vulkan API implementation in Mobile SDK (that's what UE4 Vulkan dev told me) for UE4. I know it's kinda early since Android N isn't out yet, but nevertheless it's good to know we'll have (or have not) power of Vulkan with us in Gear VR soon (or not) :)

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    motorsepAuthor
    Inspiring
    February 3, 2017
    Wondering if there are any news about Vulkan API updates for Gear VR (I am guessing it's no use for S6 until it's updated with Android 7.x).
    motorsepAuthor
    Inspiring
    February 6, 2017
    Just saw this: 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbCQI3DZ9w8

    Not really sure what to make of it :)
    TheSpacebarRide
    New Participant
    February 20, 2017
    Hi ! Any news about Gear VR Vulkan Support ?
    motorsepAuthor
    Inspiring
    February 20, 2017

    TheSpacebarRider said:

    Hi ! Any news about Gear VR Vulkan Support ?


    Do you really think it's going to happen 2 weeks after Oculus already said they are still working on it? (especially that GDC is around the corner)
    TheSpacebarRide
    New Participant
    February 20, 2017
    Take it easy ! I'm just asking !  I don't know how many people working on it so I can't really evaluate the time to adapt the Gear to the new API. And I'm not asking if they have finished but just some news ! Maybe the state, maybe an estimation date on when Vulkan will be supported as an alpha state and released to the "public" !
    luckyroy
    New Participant
    May 8, 2017
    https://youtu.be/jbCQI3DZ9w8?t=1980

    So in this video the speaker Cass Everett gives a hint at a shortcut by using vr support on android to take a regular vulkan app running on a single screen and use the buffer que hooking mechanism that android compositor uses to get the frames and display them, this is only useful in the case for having a single layer displayed. 
    luckyroy
    New Participant
    May 8, 2017
    https://youtu.be/jbCQI3DZ9w8?t=2050

    The speaker Cass Everett says that you can hook the android api using buffer ques to a vulkan app running a single screen that will render in VR a single layer scene.
    motorsepAuthor
    Inspiring
    May 9, 2017
    Yeah, but, no (official) word about it from Oculus. On top of that Epic would still have to implement it into UE4 (or Unity into Unity)
    dreatern
    Up and Coming
    May 22, 2017
    Just bumping this to know about official news.  
    Any estimation of when we will have official vulkan support?
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    juanmilanese
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    May 25, 2017
    Hi ! Any news about Gear VR Vulkan Support ?

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