--- title: Keeping the Beat: Porting Beat Saber to OpenXR for An... description: Beat Saber, one of the world's most popular VR games, has been ported to OpenXR for a more consistent and maintainable cross-platform experience. The porting... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/keeping-the-beat-porting-beat-saber-to-openxr-for-an-improved-developer-experience-ztamiemxl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Keeping the Beat: Porting Beat Saber to OpenXR for An Improved Developer Experience | daily.dev og:description: Beat Saber, one of the world's most popular VR games, has been ported to OpenXR for a more consistent and maintainable cross-platform experience. The porting... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/keeping-the-beat-porting-beat-saber-to-openxr-for-an-improved-developer-experience-ztamiemxl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZtAmiEMxl.png og:image:alt: Keeping the Beat: Porting Beat Saber to OpenXR for An Improved Developer Experience og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Keeping the Beat: Porting Beat Saber to OpenXR for An Improved Developer Experience **[Khronos](https://daily.dev/sources/khronos)** · 3 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Beat Saber, one of the world's most popular VR games, has been ported to OpenXR for a more consistent and maintainable cross-platform experience. The porting process aimed to streamline the input system, improve the developer experience, and future-proof the game. OpenXR provides a unified interface for VR and AR, allowing a single implementation of a game engine to run on multiple platforms. The porting process with Unity and Steam VR was straightforward, although testing and quality assurance posed challenges. The outcome was a streamlined developer experience without impacting user gameplay. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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