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The Godot Engine Is Now Available Standalone On Quest Headsets

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Godot now runs natively on Horizon OS, meaning you can develop full games completely standalone on Quest. If you're not familiar with it, Godot is a free and open-source alternative to Unity and Unreal. It's technically controlled by the non-profit Godot Foundation, but all development takes place in the open. Back in March, a startup composed of a group of Godot veterans announced that Meta was funding it to improve the engine's OpenXR and Quest (now Horizon OS) features support.

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Samsung Is Reportedly Delaying Its Android XR Headset Even Further

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Samsung's upcoming headset could be delayed again. What's Officially Known In early 2023 Samsung officially announced it was working on an XR headset, with Google handling the system software via a new variant of Android, now known to be called Android XR, and Qualcomm providing the chipset, which it later announced as Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 , a higher-end variant of the base XR2 Gen 2 used in Meta Quest 3.

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