When trying hello_xr -g OpenGL versus hello_xr -g D3D12 or D3D11, I notice huge difference in quality. Direct X runs much better. Why is this? Is Direct X so much better for VR, or is the OpenGL code not as well written or something?
The Hello XR code is pretty primitive, not optimized at all. I wouldn’t expect a big quality difference, but I don’t use WIndows very often recently. OpenGL should be fine for VR applications, if you want more low-level control Vulkan or d3d12 can be considered.
Do you know where I can find more examples? I would love to see some explanatary code and tutorials.
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there’s a Linux OpenGL sample at Monado / Demos / openxr-simple-example · GitLab and linux Vulkan at Monado / Demos / xrgears · GitLab
There’s a theoretically-cross-platform-but-right-now-Linux OpenGL sample Monado / Demos / OpenGLHighPolyTest · GitLab
Microsoft has put out their own sample app as well: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/mixed-reality/develop/native/openxr-getting-started#exploring-the-openxr-api-and-sample-app
Note that all of these are written primarily for demonstration/education purposes (or in the case of “high poly”, it’s very useful for runtime developers like me testing compositor changes). For performance-optimized code, most folks use engines to do that part for them. There is the Godot engine that is open-source and has OpenXR support, increasing in quality and performance regularly, etc.
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