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Oculus DK2 and Chrome or Firefox
Hi All,
I'm new to Oculus development. I apologize if this has been visited already and/or if I'm posting in the wrong forum. If so, please point me in the right direction, much appreciate!
I received an Oculus DK2 recently and have been playing around. I downloaded vr.js in both Chrome and Oculus, and installed the plugins. I'm currently using Extended mode on a laptop. My laptop screen doesn't seem to have a power off button, so recently I've been using my Oculus as monitor 2 main display on left hand side before Monitor 1, in different orientation than the laptop monitor, in Windows Premium 7. I haven't been able to figure out how to get Direct to Rift working yet, and wondering if that's what I need to do. No matter what, I can't seem to get the vr.js examples to work.
Next, I downloaded Oculus Bridge, and can't get that to work either. I can get the browser to connect to the Web Socket server, but whenever I plugin Oculus, remove Oculus, switch displays by turning Oculus on/off, refreshing the browser pages, I can't get the Oculus to control the example displays in the webpage. I'm able to play Oculus games just fine whatever.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks!
Lonne
I'm new to Oculus development. I apologize if this has been visited already and/or if I'm posting in the wrong forum. If so, please point me in the right direction, much appreciate!
I received an Oculus DK2 recently and have been playing around. I downloaded vr.js in both Chrome and Oculus, and installed the plugins. I'm currently using Extended mode on a laptop. My laptop screen doesn't seem to have a power off button, so recently I've been using my Oculus as monitor 2 main display on left hand side before Monitor 1, in different orientation than the laptop monitor, in Windows Premium 7. I haven't been able to figure out how to get Direct to Rift working yet, and wondering if that's what I need to do. No matter what, I can't seem to get the vr.js examples to work.
Next, I downloaded Oculus Bridge, and can't get that to work either. I can get the browser to connect to the Web Socket server, but whenever I plugin Oculus, remove Oculus, switch displays by turning Oculus on/off, refreshing the browser pages, I can't get the Oculus to control the example displays in the webpage. I'm able to play Oculus games just fine whatever.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks!
Lonne
1 Reply
- Not sure what you are doing wrong. But, I want to make sure that you are aware that vr.js is going away. The NPAPI plugin interface that it is built on is being removed from the browsers for security reasons.
The great news is that vr.js isn't entirely necessary anymore. There are teams in both Chrome and Firefox working together to bring official support for VR in the browsers!
Currently, you need Firefox Nightly to try it out.
You can get FF nightly here: http://mozvr.com/downloads/
and check out what's going around the net here:
http://mozvr.com/
https://github.com/MozVR
http://blog.bitops.com/
http://blog.tojicode.com/2014/07/bringi ... hrome.html
http://www.meetup.com/Web-VR/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByXOe8P ... Lk8Sa4mTQZ
