The virtual art you make via Oculus’ Quill app should someday be viewable inside the company’s new Quest headset.
Quest was introduced last month as a standalone VR headset with six degrees of freedom (6DOF) inside-out tracking comparable to what’s seen on Oculus Rift. As such, Oculus is bringing Rift games like The Climb and Superhot to the platform when it launches next year, but we haven’t yet heard about any VR creation apps, which are some of the most impressive and versatile experiences on the platform. We had hoped that Oculus would be able to get all of Quill and its sister sculpting app, Medium, onto Quest, but that might not be the case.
As Road to VR reports, Facebook Android VR Engineer Pierre-Antoine LaFayette yesterday confirmed that Oculus is working to bring Quill artwork to Quest during a talk at the XRDC event. That said, it doesn’t sound like the full experience will be ported over.
In his talk LaFayette gave a detailed explanation of how the Quill team was able to optimize existing artwork and get it running on Quest, though it didn’t sound easy. File sizes needed to be reduced before being sent to a custom renderer built on top of Android. Compromises on visual fidelity, which more traditional VR games are embracing to fit onto Quest, aren’t as easy to make when you’re aiming to keep an artist’s vision intact, though.
LayFayette later told Road that it wasn’t yet decided how Quill artwork might end up on Quest, be it through a dedicated viewer app or another service. He did say, however, that its framing as a professional tool might keep the creation mode from ever arriving on the headset. Somehow we think the limited power of the all-in-one device might stop that from happening too.
That’s a real shame, given that apps like Quill and Tilt Brush are amazing tools that showcase the power of VR. Perhaps we could see a new, dedicated VR creation app taking the platform’s limitations into consideration?
Oculus Quest launches next spring for $399.
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