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So Godot Team is putting their Editor onto the Quest 3 and Pro

godotengine.org Godot Editor on the Meta Horizon Store

Introducing the Godot Editor for Meta Quest (Horizon OS) devices

This is.... very unexpected. A Foss application releasing it's VR variant exclusive to a completely proprietary platform. This will be great for people who specifically have the quest 3 or pro, but all other VR enthusiasts and tinkerers like myself, must hope that this gets a pcvr OpenXR release soon.

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For anyone who wants to try a similar thing: One could use something like WlxOverlay (or maybe even SteamVR proprietary overlay) to achieve a very similar workflow. There one too could make live changes to the game while also being in-game.

Targeting a proprietary platform first, especially one owned by Facebook, is shameful for a FLOSS project. Worse than documentation on discord.
As a Godot developer I hope they do better next time, even if it might not be a tool I personally plan on using.
- proprietary platform first
  ??? Godot has been out on every other platform for 10 years.
  Do you also find it shameful that Firefox is on Windows?
  
  Yes, but this specific VR feature only works with Facebook's oculus ecosystem. Did you just happen to completely ignore the article we're commenting on?
  I would find it shameful if Mozilla added the ftp feature back into Firefox, but only on Windows.
- Targeting a proprietary platform first
  I hope they do better next time
  if they want to support XR development, in your opinion how can they do better now?
  is there a non-proprietary consumer standalone headset? If the answer to this is "no", are you suggesting that Godot shouldn't enter this space at all?
  Actually the change is quite awesome: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/96624/files. The implementation revolves around Android, not very specific to Meta ecosystem. Thus, it can be easily extended to the next XR device running Android.

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