Editor XR roadmap? Where are we headed?

Hey all!

I am wondering what the current plans are for the Editor XR.
I just took a look at the Git repository and have seen that it has not been updated in quite a while.

Are there any efforts for EditorXR to be compatible with custom rendering pipelines? Like the HDR pipeline?
I am currently building some editor tools that support both "normal" edit mode and XR edit modes and wondering whether I should keep adding in support for the EditorXR.

Anything helps!
Thank you!

Jannes

 

I'd like to know, too. It looks very promising, but the project seems stalled. This feature is standard in Unreal. I'd like to see it a permanent part of Unity, too.

 

Great to hear that this is under active development, but I would also like to hear if and when there are any timelines surrounding this. Specifically, I am interested in hearing if and when support for Unity 2018 or 2019 will be coming.

Thanks!
Allen

 

I finally have an headset to try but now the github is gone. https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/EditorXR/
Does this mean its dead or will it be moved to the package manager ?

 

The links where not working for an hour or two but after that they are back. So i guess it was a github server related issue.

 

Here we are in 2019 and I've got EditorXR 0.2.1 running on my new project! There are a couple of gotchas to get it working in 2019.1.5f1, which is what I'm using today.

• Install EditorXR 0.2.1
• Install XR Legacy Input Helpers 2.0.2 from the Package Manger
• Create an Assets/Plugins folder if you don't have one already in your project and copy in UnityEngine.SpatialTracking from your projects Library/ScriptAssemblies folder.

That's it. A big thanks to chmodseven for that last step, it had me stumped!

 

@Corysia Thank you so much for posting this! Hopefully we will get a new version of EditorXR soon so we wont have to do that ^^^^ bit anymore.

 

Yes, got it working with 2019.2.3 using Corysia's guide above. Had to just add the Oculus integration from the store to get it going. Lots of problems without the guide and nearly gave up on it. Don't forget to read the manual too as can be a bit unintuitive (Shoot the menu button on the controller with the OTHER controller!) Shame it uses the joystick press on the Oculus as this is a hard to press button whilst angling the stick.

 

Really? I thought I saw a PR from them that said they no longer needed Oculus or SteamVR. Well, glad you got it working! =)

 

Hi I'm interested in building a level editor for my VR game IN VR. Since this thread hasnt had an update in awhile, I'm nervous about adopting Editor XR. Is it still working with newer versions of Unity (I'm in 2019.4 right now). Another option I am considering is doing my editor work in Play Mode, and then saving data I want to keep into a Scriptable Object (which will make the appropriate game objects when exitting play mode). Is that a better approach, or is EditorXR expected to be supported going forward? thanks!!

 

It seems the HOT part of VR has past at least for Unity. Like many Unity experimental products before it its probably down memory lane. I tried to keep exited myself but it had so many bugs and was incomplete. Also tried ProBuilder VR what had great potentional but after Unity aquired it development stopped
and i was exited about the oculus course that was broken one week from coming out due to an breaking API update with no support. I see they have however updated the course so perhaps ill give it an other try in the future. I do very much i am wrong.
Great do that your working on an VR game!

 

Is EditorXR still being actively worked on?

 

Sad news. I enjoyed playing around with it and was hoping to see it become a LTS package.

 

Will the new authoring tools be in any way comparable?

 

You really need to work on your messaging - considering how common accusations are that Unity now has an almost google-esque attention span. ;-)

You could have phrased the whole thing as "we're working on the next iteration of EditorXR" - instead you said "we've stopped working on it" and then followed up with "but we're working on a new thing instead that's based on it". The difference is fairly minor but the second version makes the situation sound much worse.

 

Agreed.

 

any news on editorXR? neosVR has more functionality than this, and is even more performant, the opportunity was huge here, it feels like the ball has been dropped, it's said there's other "authoring tools" that use some of the concepts of EditorXR? where are those then? did the higher ups just decide this wasn't worth it, it seems like "legacy" software at this point.

 

Harsh reality

 

@amirebrahimi_unity:

I cannot find anything about the new XR authoring tools anywhere. Do you already have a roadmap for when they will be released? Will they still be "open source" (Unity Companion License) / free or have license model similar to MARS?

 

Same here, the previous project was pulled, that's a low move

 

Thank you for your answer, could you go and ask them please ? Lots of your customer would like to build in VR

 

Hello all, I will be emailing this person from Unity, I will let you know if I hear back