MIXIDtheSilly/Refract

A Quest emulation tool

Games & graphicsC++

3.5 Early signal Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 1, 2026, 17:41 UTC.

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About the project

An experimental tool that runs Android (Meta Quest) OpenXR apps in the Android Emulator on Windows and displays them in a PC VR headset via SteamVR. Intended for testing apps you own and open samples.

Useful for

Run a Quest APK you own in the emulator and view it in a PC VR headset
Test an OpenXR app on Windows without an actual Quest headset
Build the viewer and host bridge to stream emulator frames into SteamVR

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Why it’s trending

24 stars so far today, about 34 expected by the end of the day.
The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
The repository is 4 days old and already has 83 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
Top new repositories this week: #179.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 83
Today: 24 · ≈ 34 by evening
Forks: 4
Issues and pull requests: 10
Watchers: 1
Language: C++
Latest release: test-4 · October 1, 2026
Created: September 27, 2026
Last push: October 1, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

October 1, 2026Top new repositories this week: #177

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