Meta Developers

Performance and Optimization

Updated: Jul 31, 2024

When developing for the Meta Quest, optimization is critical in creating polished apps that meet customer expectations in terms of quality and Meta Horizon Store requirements. This section contains content that illustrates performance and optimization scenarios and best practices to aid in Meta Quest development.

The mobile chipset of Meta Quest presents challenges that differ from those present in PC VR development. For example, apps running on Meta Quest must use fewer draw calls, less complex shaders, and format art assets to compensate. Optimization is also critical in passing the Virtual Reality Checks (VRCs) necessary to appear in the Store.

Advanced GPU Pipelines and Loads, Stores, and Passes: Provides an overview of various mobile GPU rendering architectures across OpenGL and Vulkan, how to configure and profile them properly, and how Fixed Foveated Rendering (FFR) works with those architectures.
Art Direction for All-in-One VR Performance: Provides information on how early art and design decisions can impact downstream performance issues.
Accurately Measure an App’s Per-Frame GPU Cost: This topic describes some available methods to report a whole frame’s GPU performance when profiling and optimizing an app.
Basic Optimization Workflow for Meta Quest Apps: Describes a basic optimization workflow that uses profiling to help identify bottlenecks and issues with development builds of apps.
Using RenderDoc Meta Fork to Optimize Your App - Part 1: Walks through several key usage scenarios with RenderDoc for Oculus that can be used to make optimizations to your app.
Using RenderDoc for Oculus to Optimize Your App - Part 2: This portion of the guide focuses on easily identifiable rendering patterns that can help point towards opportunities for optimization on both the render thread and GPU.

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