📚 Oculus is killing off its proprietary PC VR APIs in favor of OpenXR

Moving the industry toward the accepted open standard. What you need to know Oculus is deprecating its proprietary Oculus PC APIs in favor of the OpenXR format starting August 31, 2021. All support for these older APIs will end on August 31, 2022. New Oculus features will be delivered via OpenXR plug-ins, meaning developers will need to move to these APIs to support future headsets and Oculus updates. Facebook announced today on the Oculus developers blog that it's finally deprecating its old proprietary Oculus APIs in favor of using the OpenXR standard moving forward. This move has been building steam since the Oculus Quest began supporting the OpenXR platform last July and is now in line with Steam's move to the OpenXR platform last year. To simplify what's happening, here's a breakdown of the process. An application programming interface, or API, is a piece of software that connects software and hardware together. In this case, Oculus APIs allow developers to create VR games... ...