The short version: XR Explorer does not collect anything about you. There is no account, no analytics, and no advertising. The app cannot even reach the internet — it does not ask Android for permission to, so the permission is not there to use. The colours you pick are written to a file on your headset and stay there.
Most privacy policies are long because the app does a lot with your data. This one is short for the opposite reason, and the rest of this page is mostly us showing our work so you do not have to take that on trust.
What we collect
Nothing. We do not collect your name, your email address, your Meta account details, your location, your IP address, your voice, your hand or eye movements, or anything about the room you are standing in.
There is no sign-in screen in XR Explorer because there is no account behind it. Earlier versions were designed with one and it was taken out, partly because it made the app worse to use and partly because nothing in the app actually needed it.
How you can check that
An Android app has to declare every capability it wants, and those declarations are public — you can read them off the installed app yourself. XR Explorer declares three permissions, and this is all of them:
- org.khronos.openxr.permission.OPENXR — talk to the VR runtime. Without this it is not a VR app.
- org.khronos.openxr.permission.OPENXR_SYSTEM — the same, for system-level VR features.
- DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION — a self-addressed permission the Android support libraries add so that the app's own internal messages cannot be read by other apps.
There is no INTERNET permission. That one is the one that matters, and its absence is not an oversight: it was deliberately removed, and an Android app without it cannot open a network connection at all. Not for analytics, not for crash reports, not for checking updates. Even if we had made a mistake somewhere in the code, the operating system would refuse the connection.
Where your colours are kept
When you paint a surface, XR Explorer remembers it so the room looks the same when you walk back in. That is saved as a small file in the app's own private storage on your headset. It holds the name of the surface and the colour you chose — something like "the south wall of the living room is now #9CAF88" — and nothing else.
It is never sent anywhere, because it cannot be. It is not readable by other apps. It does not follow you to another headset. If you uninstall XR Explorer, Android deletes it along with the app, and clearing the app's data from the headset's settings wipes it too, which is the fastest way to put every house back to how it started.
No analytics, no ads, no third parties
There is no analytics SDK in XR Explorer, no crash reporting service, no advertising, and no social or sharing features. We have not embedded any third-party tracking code, and we do not sell or share data — which is easy to promise when there is none to sell.
The app is also not built on Meta's Platform SDK, so it does not read your Meta profile, your friends list, or your entitlements.
What Meta does, which is separate from us
Your headset is Meta's, and the store you installed from is Meta's. Meta collects its own information about things like your purchase, your installs, and how apps perform on the headset. That happens at the system level, outside XR Explorer, and we have no control over it and no access to it.
One thing worth naming specifically, because it is in the app and we would rather you heard it from us: the app's package carries a build identifier that Meta's own software can use to associate the performance measurements it collects about apps with this particular app. It contains nothing about you, and we do not receive it or anything derived from it.
Meta's handling of all of this is governed by their policies, not ours. See the Meta Privacy Policy and the Meta Quest supplemental privacy policy.
Children
XR Explorer is not aimed at children, and Meta sets its own minimum age for using a Quest headset. Because the app collects no personal information from anyone, it collects none from children either.
Your rights
Laws such as the GDPR and the CCPA give you the right to see the personal data a company holds about you, to correct it, and to have it deleted. We hold none, so there is nothing for us to show you, correct, or delete, and no request you need to make to us.
The one piece of data the app creates is the record of what you painted, and that is already entirely yours: it is on your headset, and uninstalling the app or clearing its data removes it.
This website
This site is a plain set of pages. It sets no cookies, has no analytics, and has no tracking pixels, so there is no consent banner to click through.
It does load the Archivo typeface from Google Fonts, which means your browser makes a request to Google's servers and Google sees your IP address as part of serving the font. If you would rather that did not happen, the font files can be hosted alongside the rest of the site instead.
If this changes
If a future version of XR Explorer ever needs to collect something — cloud saving of your colour schemes is the obvious candidate — we will update this page before that version ships, change the date at the top, and say plainly in the app's release notes what changed. We will not quietly start collecting data under a policy that says we do not.
Contact
Questions about this policy, or about anything above that you would like us to prove rather than assert, can go to seniorngenge@gmail.com.