Stand-alone VR

[techemaster22]

Hey I was wondering if anyone knows if leadwerks will be supporting stand-alone VR headset in the future like the Oculus quest or the Google VR solo head set plus will it support mobile game development or no?

 

[Yue]

About mobile games, leadwerks 4.x is only for computers, however the new engine that works Josh, using the Vulkan Api, possibly if it supports mobile games. 

[techemaster22]

Ah ok 

[#code]

You can use, for example, Riftcat to emulating HTC Vive. https://riftcat.com/vridge. It's support daydream and gear controller. And you can emulate controllers, use app from google play.

[Yue]

This really pleases me a lot, I thought I would never have an expensive device like that, but it turns out I can have a very cheap one. Thank you very much.

And that's in Spanish, it's great for virtual reality.

[Josh]

We don't do mobile development. The new engine could maybe in the future, but I have a very negative experience with mobile and these mobile VR headsets are awful.

[#code]

I also think so.

[Josh]

Vulkan does eliminate a lot of problems with mobile support.

[qcrocknet]

So UltraEngine will not be supporting natively Quest 1 and Quest 2 (without a link cable) ?

As you know Quest headsets are extremely popular (I do have both editions)

If Quest is not supported in the upcoming major update of Leadwerks, I might have to rethink my strategy for my project.

I wanted an affordable\practical\portable way to supply a headset with my VR application.

Thank you. 

[Josh]

The Quest 2 honestly does change things a bit. I have not tried one myself but I am hearing it is not bad.

I don't have an exact timeline on this but if VR is our top priority support for the newer mobile VR headsets is also a priority.

You may notice I have been doing a lot of Linux work lately, and Android is Linux.

[qcrocknet]

Ok thanks for your response. I will write you a DM to continue on the subject of VR and Quest.