Re:Intermediate Graphics Library, a cross-platform GPU abstr...
by swatcoder on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @01:16PM
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Meta has bet the farm on their VR/AR/XR platform and smartly wants control over the tooling that developers will use to target it.
The last thing they want is for some Quest innovation to be hamstrung waiting for a standard body to approve support for some new feature or for a third-party open source maintainer to incorporate some fix/addition/compatibility PR.
Owning a project like this, if they can get developers to use it, is a huge business security asset and competitive advantage for them. That's why this exists and why it's being promoted.
Whether developers see it as worth using instead of other options is a different question. Meta would probably say the answer to "why" for developers is: "to make sure your project gets the most out of the Quest products (as well as other Android platforms), now and in the future"
The last thing they want is for some Quest innovation to be hamstrung waiting for a standard body to approve support for some new feature or for a third-party open source maintainer to incorporate some fix/addition/compatibility PR.
Owning a project like this, if they can get developers to use it, is a huge business security asset and competitive advantage for them. That's why this exists and why it's being promoted.
Whether developers see it as worth using instead of other options is a different question. Meta would probably say the answer to "why" for developers is: "to make sure your project gets the most out of the Quest products (as well as other Android platforms), now and in the future"