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I appreciate Meta finally funding again VR content. But I'm not completely a big fan of this hackathon format. Professional teams should commit to work for free full time for a month, without any guarantee of seeing any money back. One hackathon is fine, one month can be an investment, but many of them is not sustainable

I hadn't heard about Almalence DLVR, and thanks to your comment I now found out that just last month they also released an open sourced eye tracking solution on GitHub. It promises the same aberrations and distortion compensation as their OpenXR plugin while only consuming 2% of the compute power on an XR2 Gen 2, so a lot less resource hungry than Meta's implementation on the Quest Pro, and therefore more suitable for mobile HMDs. The (no longer supported) OpenXR plugin seems to mostly add eye tracked supersampling to what ETFR/DFR usually does. Kind of a logical extension to reducing the render resolution outside of the foveated area, using the gained compute to increase the perceived resolution inside the foveated area.

It’s clear.. Oculus headset shouldn’t require FB account and they should not be connected. Stupid how your 400 dollar device can end up locked because some scammer in brasil hacked your account and you’re stuck negotiating with bots on trying to get your account back.

Just read the marketing for the Quest, they even promote it to use it with friends and family……..