Passthrough

Passthrough

Note

Only available in versions 1.1.1 and later of the OpenXR plugin.

Passthrough is a new feature introduced on the Meta Quest and added to the OpenXR spec as a Meta extension. It is likely this implementation will be implemented by other vendors where the hardware supports a passthrough mode and promoted to core at some point.

Keep in mind that this feature is not guaranteed to be available. Passthrough allows for the camera input on the headset to be used within the headset so the user can see the real world. This allows us to implement an AR-like experience in a VR headset.

If you are using the first person controller scene, you can simply enable passthrough by checking the Start Passthrough option on the controller node:

If you rather do this through code, you will first need to create an instance of the OpenXRConfig object. You can do this the same way the first person controller does and assign the OpenXRConfig.gdns as the script to a node, or you can instance it in code as shown below:

var openxr_config = null
func _ready():
    var config_gdns = load("res://addons/godot_ovrmobile/OvrInitConfig.gdns")
    if config_gdns:
        openxr_config = config_gdns.new()
func start_passthrough():
    if openxr_config:
        return openxr_config.start_passthrough()
    else:
        return false
func stop_passthrough():
    if openxr_config:
        openxr_config.stop_passthrough()

Note

The Viewport’s Transparent Bg property must be enabled prior to starting passthrough. The plugin will log a warning message if it detects an incorrect configuration.