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Having researched WebGPU a little, I'm not seeing anything there that explains why this over WebGPU. As far as I understand, those reasons are identical to thos

• jayd16 3y ago
  Is Android support solid for Dawn/webgpu? Seems like it's marked as work in progress compared to the confident support laid out here.
  • adamnemecek 3y ago
    Right but if they needed that, they could have just contributed android support to wgpu.
• swatcoder 3y ago
  Meta has bet the farm on their VR/AR/XR platform and smartly wants control over the tooling that developers will use to target it. The last thing they want is for some Quest innovation to be hamstrung waiting for a standard body to approve support for some new feature or for a third-party open source maintainer to incorporate some fix/addition/compatibility PR. Owning a project like this, if they can get developers to use it, is a huge business security asset and competitive advantage for them. That's why this exists and why it's being promoted. Whether developers see it as worth using instead of other options is a different question. Meta would probably say the answer to "why" for developers is: "to make sure your project gets the most out of the Quest products (as well as other Android platforms), now and in the future"
  • adamnemecek 3y ago
    They can’t get users to use it as it provides little over webgpu.