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TransportedVR
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September 30, 2017

Linking Oculus Client Product Page From Site

On a website I can create a button that opens the Oculus Client on a PC with the "oculus:" URL
I noticed in the Registry Editor that its command can take an argument (preset by url) 
"C:\Program Files\Oculus\Support\oculus-client\OculusClient.exe" -- --url "%1"

My question is can I set this URL argument to open the store page of a particular app? or even better launch that app?
(I have tried several options before posting this to experiment without success including the app name, full web url, app ID)

    3 replies

    TransportedVRAuthor
    New Participant
    October 9, 2017
    @imperativity is there any other way that you (or the internal team) know of launching an Oculus Client installed application from a link? 

    This is kinda a big deal for content rich applications that want to encourage people to view featured or specific content.
    TransportedVRAuthor
    New Participant
    October 9, 2017
    The basic concept is this...
    If I have people visiting my site to look at content found on our platform, viewing posts I make on forums about content we just put up or we find special, pressing on links in Facebook (or other social media) about some new content found on our app, it makes sense that I be able to link them directly to the content in the app.

    For example
    If I created an app which had 360 images that I would like people to view in VR to get the full experience, if I were to post "check out this location in VR" at present they would have to open the Oculus Client, launch the application, then find that content. What would be better is a link that could launch the app (and Oculus Client as needed) and provide that app with more link data.

    This is possible to do if I have users install the application from a website, as my own installer could setup the relevant settings in the OS. However this would mean pulling the application from the Rift store which no one wants.
     
    So how would this look on the website, possibly something like:
    <form action="oculus: -application application_name content1">
            <input type="submit" value="Application" />
     </form>
    The Oculus Client would open (as it does if you just use "oculus:") launch the application called application_name and pass as the first argument content1, which my application reads on launch and takes the appropriate action.

    To be honest even just being able to launch the application would work as I have ways of launching relevant content. 


    Let me know if you need more information.


    TransportedVRAuthor
    New Participant
    November 15, 2017
    @imperativity I see on the release notes on the Platform SDK "App-To-App Deeplinking" any news on when simple deeplinking to an app from an external source as spoken about above will be ready?

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