SteamVR applications can use the Meta Avatar SDK, but because those apps aren’t tied to the Oculus platform players are restricted to choosing from one of 32 pre-configured avatars. Oculus-based applications using the Meta Avatar SDK will use the avatar that player’s have customized through their headset’s avatar creator. Developers are also free to use the system with whichever networking stack they’d like, which increases flexibility over a proprietary solution. Instead of having all headsets redundantly calculate all of the positions and expressions of all avatars in a given scene, each headset performs the calculations for its own avatar and then streams that information to other participants. The company also says the Meta Avatar SDK uses an interesting distributed architecture for performance. The company says it has built the Meta Avatar SDK “with developer needs in mind.” Developers can override the system’s positioning of avatar bodies and facial expressions if necessary to fine-tune avatar behavior for their given application. Meta Avatars aren’t yet supported in Unreal Engine, but support is expected eventually. Meta says that Quest apps on App Lab can make full use of the Meta Avatar SDK, just like those on the official store. The Meta Avatars SDK offers support for Unity-based VR applications on Quest and Rift, with limited support for non-Oculus platforms, like Unity VR apps built for SteamVR.
UNITY NUMBER GENERATOR UPGRADE
Formerly called Oculus Avatars 2.0-and now called Meta Avatars-the system brings a huge upgrade to avatar style and expressiveness compared to the company’s prior avatar systems.
UNITY NUMBER GENERATOR UPDATE
Update (December 13th, 2021): Meta today announced that its latest avatar system is finally available to all Unity developers. Following an initial announcement eight months ago, Meta has released its latest avatar system for all Unity VR developers, including support for App Lab titles and limited support for non-Oculus platforms like SteamVR.
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