Don`t worry, your $1,000 Valve Index hasn`t been rendered useless overnight.
What you need to know
Unity is officially dropping support for GearVR, Google VR, and OpenVR beginning with Unity version 2020.1.
Valve is working on developing its own XR plugin for Unity, which is scheduled for release before Unity 2020.1 releases.
This move is not expected to affect consumers in any way, but developers will likely have to report SteamVR/OpenVR bugs to Valve itself instead of Unity.
In a bit of a surprise move, Unity took to its developer blog to announce that it would no longer be officially supporting GearVR, Google VR (Daydream), or OpenVR moving forward. While the first two platforms were expected to happen in the near future, given both platforms have reached end of life (EoL) from their respective companies, Valve`s OpenVR, the API that runs SteamVR, is very much unexpected and certainly feels like a strange move from the outset.
But the reality is that Unity has moved toward a...
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