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Bitwaker's avatar
Bitwaker
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2 years ago

Kiosk mode or "at least" a way to disable system menu gestures?

We are developing applications that will not be released on the Meta store. These include utilities and tools for other teams to use, as well as games intended for dedicated contests where users are required to remain within the app (and again... I'm not talking about apps available on the store but apps that our final clients will use in they HQ or physical stores to show off their products).

Based on my understanding, many other developers are making similar requests. Is there a possibility to hide the system menus for the 'hand tracking' mode? Additionally, are there plans to introduce a 'kiosk' mode?

 

Hand Tracking
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8 Replies

  • BastiaanGrisel's avatar
    BastiaanGrisel
    Honored Guest
    2 years ago

    We also really need this for our enterprise applications. Clients are confused enough with VR as-is and we want to prevent any friction that takes them out of the experience.

     

    Question: do the custom launchers of ArborXR or ManageXR maybe solve this?

    • kaicent's avatar
      kaicent
      Honored Guest
      3 months ago

      they dont solve this, they will just take you to a custom kiosk menu where you can set a boundry etc if you have the admin password.

      we need a way to completly remove that button. i go even further, we need a way to remove all meta features and have it be a normal operating system that doesnt want you to be a part of the meta horizon universe and just serves as a solid VR OS.

  • ilhuang's avatar
    ilhuang
    Honored Guest
    6 months ago

    2025 and this issue still persists. This makes it very annoying to develop and work with hand first interactions... 

  • lucajunge's avatar
    lucajunge
    Explorer
    5 months ago

    Yes, this is still a major pain point for low-maintenance use-cases like art installations or museum exhibits.

    Evenr third party solutions like ArborXR are just overriding events to throw you back into your specified kiosk app and even they can't disable the menu button(s)

  • kaicent's avatar
    kaicent
    Honored Guest
    3 months ago

    Well, Meta just really wants you to pay per device per month. make a software switch a premium feature.

    i did an app for a exhibition many years ago. i was able to run it with Arborxr. then something changed. all 6 devices where not working anymore and meta introduced the shady buisness practice as a subscription.

    i found a workaround by disabling the VR shell, oculus home completly and then rely on batch files to launch the app again after a reboot but with the latest update the quest just gets stuck while booting.


    i dont know why meta on one hand is all open source and stuff (looking at llama) and then they manage VR like this.
    the meta horizon OS is just a modified version of Android wich is open source by the way.

    we are not asking for root access, all we want is the ability to modify and edit the system as much as possible to be able to develop what we want and to be able to show our development to potential customers and the general public without the need of a personal guide for everyone. if you (meta) wants more people in VR and in your universe why are you making it hard for developers and potential buyers of your devices? 

    as it is right now i will never tell customers to go for VR since it is to much to manage and the experience will

    never be seamless. i really hope androidXR does things different and VR will finally be a seamless experience for exhibition visiters and retail.

     

  • DevPW's avatar
    DevPW
    Explorer
    28 days ago

    +1 on this issue... We really need to disable this default gesture, since it will break our hand-tracking based system. A quick menu button could be just the power button, or a double tap on the side of the hmd, but not the current pinch gesture 😞