Resources for Performance on Meta Quest

Below are some of the best resources from the last 10 years on maximizing quality and performance for VR and the Meta Quest specifically. This page serves as the counter-part to our talk at Meta Connect 2024.

If you have any recommendations for resources to add, please let us know.

General Dev Posts and Talks

• Best on Quest 3 - Improving Visual Quality on Quest 3
• Unity VR Optimization Quest 2 Settings
• Porting VR Games to Oculus Quest
• Shader Compilation - This is PC-specific, but incredibly relevant to challenges of avoiding stutters on shader compilation

Unity Draw Calls Batching

• Unity Draw Call Batching - The Ultimage Guide
• Unity: optimizing draw calls
• Unity Rendering Statistics Window

Texture Quality, Filtering and Transparency

• Common Rendering Mistakes, how to find and fix them - really good resource on texture quality, anisotropic filtering
• Alpha to Coverage with MSAA
• Texture Compression: Use ASTC (technical details), play around with different block sizes (smaller block = higher quality, use lower quality for noisy textures)

Oculus Tools and Optimization Techniques

• OVR Metrics app
• OVR Metrics Docs
• Foveated Rendering
• Application Space Warp
• Dynamic Resolution
• RenderDoc (Meta Fork)

Meta Talks and Blog Posts

• Art Direction & Trade-offs
• Draw Call Cost Analysis for Meta Quest
• How to Obtain Stable GPU Measurements on Quest
• Maximizing Performance on Meta Quest (30 minute talk)

John Carmack - Connect Talks

John Carmack's talks at Connect are an incredible resources full of evergreen advice on how to create great VR experiences

• 2014 - Connect 1
• 2015 - Connect 2
• 2016 - Connect 3
• 2017 - Connect 4
• 2018 - Connect 5
• 2019 - Connect 6
• 2020 - Connect 7
• 2021 - Connect 8
• 2022 - Connect 9

Last updated: February 2nd 2025 - Check out our VR games