As the player is free, I wonder why it's not open source, too. I for one would be willing to contribute.

Do you have a monetization strategy or do you plan to keep Skybox free forever?

fortinmike

Hi fortinmike,

Currently we are doing fine money-wise :)
If you are willing to contribute, give us a review in whatever App Store you get your SKYBOX.
That will help us a lot ~

Thanks,
Andy

fortinmike

Haha,

Yeah that might be a good idea~
We were talking about open sourcing the PC Client the other day, but didn't come to any conclusion.
I guess we still have to talk about it more and weigh the pros and cons of open sourcing.
Any ideas will be appreciated :) whether it is about why we should go open source or what you would like to do with SKYBOX once it is open sourced.

Andy

Well, for one you could get some extra hands implementing simple features (and bug fixes) in your backlog, at first.

If someone needs a specific feature and has some coding knowledge then he/she can contribute some of his/her time to the cause, making the project advance faster. You are the final arbiter for what goes in, of course.

And considering the case where you don’t want to spend time “nurturing” an open source community (say you find it’s too much overhead), a simple “code dump”-style open-sourcing would be nice; just indicate that you don’t accept contributions for now. To developers like me this is a nice reassurance that the project will keep going on whatever happens, and won’t be shut down due to unforeseen events (even if that seems unlikely).

By the way, I got to try Skybox on Oculus Go the other day (I only tried the iOS version before) and I must say it’s some top-notch, polished software! Good job! :)

+1 for open sourcing this projects! I'm a developer too, and wants to help you!

Was there any more talks of open-sourcing Skybox within your team? I'm still interested in contributing, as time allows.

fortinmike

Sorry SKYBOX won't be an open-sourcing project in the near future.