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Questions about WMR future #665

Open Philip2809 opened 1 year ago

Philip2809 commented 1 year ago

I am wondering if external tracking will ever be a thing? I mean will there be an officially supported version of this? For examples using external cameras? Another thought I had was hand tracking, is that something your planning to release to WMR HMDs?

ErrorRaffyline0 commented 1 year ago

It's safe to say WMR won't have any major updates anymore. The only significant changes that will be available to WMR Headset users will be updates pushed to the OpenXR tools and SteamVR bridge, mainly maintained by @mbucchia. He is also involved in a few cool repos that give WMR some extra features, like WMR Passthrough access for OpenXR applications.

Philip2809 commented 1 year ago

I see, thank you for the information. Have you considered making the drivers/applications open source, or this is something that will not happen?

ErrorRaffyline0 commented 1 year ago

I see, thank you for the information. Have you considered making the drivers/applications open source, or this is something that will not happen?

I'm not a Microsoft dev, but I'm pretty sure even they wouldn't know, most of the people in this repo here are technical writers so I don't think they know the executive decisions that MSFT is planning. Also, Microsoft rarely ever makes proprietary code open-source.

I do know of a project that has access to the WMR hardware to some capacity, though it can't use the tracking algorithm. The project is called ALVR.