Will Godot 4 be good for VR?

Nerdzmasterz

I'm only asking because it will only support Vulcan, to my knowledge, and Unity claims that Vulcan is not a good option for Oculus projects. I don't know what Vulcan does to it first-hand, but I figured I would throw it out there.

Calinou

Vulkan is actually a better option than OpenGL for VR, simply because it allows for more control from the engine developer for implementing things such as multiview and foveated rendering.

cybereality

So it's called Vulkan, not Vulcan. That always bothers me when people spell it wrong. Anyway, the API should not make a huge difference if it is implemented properly. VR just uses a stereo render (which can be done in any API, even DirectX9) and special VR-specific APIs for the tracking functionality, which is just C/C++ code and doesn't have anything to do with rendering. So I don't see why there would be any problem.

Megalomaniak

Yeah, Vulcanized rubber is something else.

Nerdzmasterz

Yeah, sorry. I didn't mean the science fiction race. But good to know that it should still work.

cybereality

I mean, there are definitely features and optimizations in DirectX 12 that help performance on VR. But Vulkan can still be compatible and there are probably ways to emulate some of those features manually.