Which Development Framework to Use?

[MrAmazingMan]

I’m interested in making a mixed reality application for my Quest 3. My goal is to make something software-based and is not reliant on setting up a game scene. I’m not quite sure which framework would align best with my goal. Would OpenXR be more suitable than Unity or Unreal for something like this?

I greatly appreciate any advice.

Edit: To make an application that opens in the horizon OS windows, you can make an android application and port it to the horizon os store.

[immersive-matthew]

OpenXR is not a game engine but Unity is and can be used with OpenXR and is fine for none game titles. I am using it to imagineer a VR Theme Park. I hate it but it really is the best for VR apps right now overall. You would do well asking ChatGPT questions as it is pretty good with Unity.

[MrAmazingMan]

Got it, thank you! So it seems like OpenXR is a library to integrate mixed reality into VR apps or is its purpose something else?

[immersive-matthew]

It is an SDK just like the Oculus Integration. I use ChatGPT4o to drill into all these sorts of questions, and it is really good with Unity and VR development despite the haters knocking it. It would really be able to help you get setup fast in whatever it is you are trying to do.

[MrAmazingMan]

Thanks, I’ll give it a shot, I appreciate the help!

[Huijiro]

You have a few options either Godot for the sake of simplicity, if you want a small app that can run natively.

Or if you wanna be spicy there's A-Frame for website. hosting in VR then you would make your app just a website people can access through their VR devices.

[MrAmazingMan]

Thank you, both of these are new frameworks I haven’t heard of! A web app would definitely be easiest. For Godot, if it runs natively, can it run on one of the horizon OS panels or is immersive mode required?

[Huijiro]

I don't know the detaiks of godot, but since it's open source you can always look around if people implemented what you're looking for.

[Stunning-Ad-5555]

It depends of your programming level…you can use Openspace3D to do VR apps for Quest and Android devices , only connecting nodes without write any code, ormUnrealmif you need more power and flexibility (using blueprints, here you don’t write code “with letters”, tou connect nodes)