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cybereality
Grand Champion
9 years ago

Oculus SDK for Windows 1.8.0 Released

Oculus PC SDK 1.8.0 This release includes performance improvements, memory management fixes, and minor updates. New Features Oculus now provides a boundary system. When a user gets too close to t...
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Anonymous
9 years ago


  • If you bypass the shim and communicate with the DLL directly, without specifying a version to ovr_Initialize, the DLL has no way of knowing the SDK version with which the application was built. This can result in unpredictable or erratic behavior which might cause the application to crash.


What's "the shim"? Is the code for the shim available? In the pyovr python bindings I found I now need to pass an ovrInitParams argument to ovr_Initialize(), otherwise I get the Libversion error reported by etick:

etick said:

I used Oculuswrap but with this update Initialize return Libversion error ?


I'd like to reproduce the exact behavior of the shim, whatever that is, in pyovr if possible. For now I'm just guessing.

By the way, I also found that this is one case where calling ovr_GetLastErrorInfo() causes an error of it's own.