How To Reduce Lag on gear vr when developing.
I'm building a very cool game for gear vr but now its starting to lag the screen becomes to shutter or lag and not smooth flowing? What should my goals be to avoid this?
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Best Practices for Dealing with Sensor Drift
Are there any best practices for dealing with sensor drift on Gear VR applications? We have noticed our users are experiencing drift across multiple phones types.Thanks,-Jack
How to switch between VR and non-VR mode, as in the "Samsung Gear 360" app, with Unity + Android?
Hi there, I'm developing a simple app in Unity and wish to be able to switch between starting in non-VR mode, then switching into VR mode. This is much in the same way as the Samsung Gear 360 app does when you click on the "View on Gear VR" button on...
SDK 360videos how to customize the video preview?
The sample program provided by SDK does not seem to provide the function to modify the preview diagram, how to modify the default picture?
Who do I contact about Gear VR development grant ?
Gear VR and Educational development grants were announced at OC3. Who do I contact in order to get information about eligibility/requirements and the application process ?Thanks
ASTC Texture Compression causing app not to launch
Based on the documentation for "Mobile Build Target: Android" - I changed the texture compression in the build settings from ETC2 (GLES 3.0) to ASTC. I hoped this might fix some of the performance issues I have.https://developer.oculus.com/documentat...
How to create 360 video player that triggers external physical elements?
Hi dears. I´m creating an APP to simulate videos, that APP will set physical elements as wind, vibration etc, that will occur in preset times in the APP. I need help to developer the 360 video player to Android Studio, VR is new to me. Anyone could h...
Experiences/Concepts - How does the workflow work? Change price/category
Hi,I've got a game under the concepts section that I've been continually updating and adding to, It's free and so far getting an average of 1000/downloads/day and 'pretty good' reviews(3.8 stars).My question is - What do I do when I want to charge fo...
How do we provide test login/account information for app review?
I would like to submit an application that requires login information. And unfortunately due to our own requirements we can not provide a sign-in at the login screen...In this case how may I provide test account information to reviewers at the submis...
Does Visual Studio Community 2015 support Oculus Mobile SDK???
I can find that Oculus Mobile SDK can be used with Unity and Android Studio. Is it possible to use with Visual Studio community 2015???
Controller for Santa Cruz
Hi guys,Just saw a new video of Santa Cruz in action. Looks much mobile and affordable than original OR. So, now about my question What type of controllers will be compatible with Santa Cruz? Will you use optical hand tracking or simple gamepad?It w...
New feature on ConstructVR: Integrated Oculus Submission Validations
Hi all,I wanted to share with you all that we've recently shipped the ability to easily run Oculus Submission Validations on ConstructVR. You can simply upload your GearVR app and click "Validate with Oculus", it will run the same tooling as the Ocul...
I would like to know the reason why I got 'Rejected' as submission result
Hiello. I am a developer.I am trying to release our application to oculus store in GEAR VRI got 'Rejected' as submission result as submission result from oculus.my app has already passed all the test but my submission test was failed..but!!!oculus do...
[GearVR][Unity] Is that possible to switch off VR mode while playing the game?
Hi,I'm now developing a game which using GearVR, but here comes the question, after the gameplay, player need to input there name and some details for showing on the leader board, I have tried using "VRSettings.enabled = false;" then screen turn blac...
Unity VR support is not enabled when uploading app into oculus
Unity VR support is not enabled. Please follow the instructions in the Unity documentation for enabling VR support.We got this error message when uploading the app, but we utilized Unity 5.2.4 and Mobile VR SDK without Unity VR supporting, and curren...
Android Native application crashes on vrapi_EnterVrMode
We are building a native application which targets GearVR but the application just crashes(?) when calling vrapi_EnterVRMode with no real useful information.It is running on the Samsung Note4 and our regular "plain" 2d-code path works fine. Here is t...
Store description in multiple languages and restriction to a specific country
Hello,Trying to play with the developper console, I noticed that when trying to add a description for another language, it is impossible to modify this description, without have it change also for the other languages. That is probably a bug of the de...
When I enable virtual reality support, the apk won't open at all on my Galaxy S7
Hey there, having some trouble and its really frustrating me.I have it narrowed down to this: if I have virtual reality supported enabled in my player settings, the apk will not open on my phone. It gets copied over correctly, I see the app icon, but...
Oculus 360 Photos SDK App Slides Autorun
I am doing app through Android Studio, using 360 Photos template for gear VR....by default template App runs with Tapping only for the next Slide .....Is there is any easy way to make it Autorun?
not debug configuration after import in Android Studio
Hello. I Have Android studio 2,2 and import mobile sdk poject for run samples. But after import i haven't run/debug configuration.What i wrong do ?tnx friends.
Resolved! Connect was great and showed Gear Vr love, but..
There seemed to be some love for Gear VR. I'm very happy about that, so...Will developers get feedback on failed submissions?Will developers get their apps reviewed in a reasonable amount of time?Will developers be able to get a response now at ticke...
Using Game controllers with IMU (accelerometer, gyroscope, ...) on Gear VR
Hi,seeing what's possible with the Daydream controller thanks to its IMU is inspiring.I looked around and the Xiaomi Bluetooth Gamepad is both affordable, of decent quality and has a builtin IMU so I ordered one (from China, so it will be a couple of...
Problems with submitting app to GearVR Store
Hi there,I'd like to publish my app for Gear VR to the Oculus Store, but it getsrejected because the app crashes on all Lollipop Smartphones.The problem is that I have no Lollipop phone to test it and on myMarshmallow phone it works. How can I get th...
Oculus Store Review Experiences
Hi everyone,I've just submitted a VR app for Oculus review and since this is our first time, I want to ask you about your experiences.- According to the email we've received from the store, the review is about 2-3 weeks. Is it possible to get expedit...
Assets not getting updated on update for Gear VR
Hi, I have an app on the the Gear VR store a few weeks back and have uploaded the couple of updates:https://www.oculus.com/experiences/gear-vr/1135979366469525/In the update process the new binary was made available immediately on the store; but none...
Oculussig files for 300 SamsungS7 devices... any automation?
Hi,for a big educational project we will have to install custom GearVR Apps on 300 devices.For each of them we will need an OculusSig File...do we have to do it manually one by one? Are any other solutions?Thanks in advance!Giovanni
My Gear VR app failed all tests - but I have no idea what's wrong.
Hi folks, my first submission to Oculus failed in spectacular fashion. Now there are of course bug notes provided. But none of these bear any resemblence to my own testing of the game on my Galaxy S6 in the Gear VR headset. For example all of the bug...
Submitting a game only for keys
Hey,There's a deadline for a competition, and I want to submit my GearVR game for that.I don't want to publish the game yet, as there's still work to do.I submitted my game to the GearVR store. How can I make sure that I get the option to send keys f...
My Gear VR submission failed - but I have no idea what's wrong.
Hi folks, my first submission to Oculus failed in spectacular fashion. Now there are of course bug notes provided. But none of these bear any resemblence to my own testing of the game on my Galaxy S6 in the Gear VR headset. For example all of the bug...
Loading Image as a Texture
Hello! I have been trying to load an image and the raw data as a texture to the VrCubeWorld_SurfaceView example in Mobile SDK, but It seems like I am missing something because application crashes when I run it. This is what I have done so far:Custom ...