Today at Oculus Connect, we shared some exciting updates about the future of Rift. Core 2.0 is out of beta — and now known as the new Rift Platform. Soon, everyone will be using Home and Dash. We've put a ton of work into improving performance and look and feel, and can't wait to hear what you think. Release notes for 1.31 can be found below — and be sure to visit the Rift blog for more info.
Dash
We're launching Experiments, a proving ground for experimental features aren't ready for official release. You can toggle individual experiments via the Settings tab within Dash. Some of the first experimental features available for testing:
Oculus Desktop Window Pullout
Wristwatch
Window Controls
Various design improvements to increase usability.
Various performance improvements and fixes, including an issue with Library sorting
Home:
New themed item collections: Spooky, Pirate, and Retro-Modern.
Customer Developer Items
Developers can now give out special Home objects and decor as gameplay rewards and achievements (live with initial partners, opening to all developers soon).
User generated content
Home now supports the playback of skinned animations for user generated content
Fixed an issue where user generated content would sometimes not show up in Home
Please give us the possibility to start a game without oculus home running, like selecting the old home aplication. With OCULUS home running in background, I have between 5-10% less performance than with 1.30 version.
Please give us the possibility to start a game without oculus home running, like selecting the old home aplication. With OCULUS home running in background, I have between 5-10% less performance than with 1.30 version.
Yeah, +1 on that (again). Now that we won't have opportunity to use Home 1 anymore, please give us chance to disable Home 2 from running whe used i.e. Youtube VR (with Oculus Support) from Steam VR..
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Please give us the possibility to start a game without oculus home running, like selecting the old home aplication. With OCULUS home running in background, I have between 5-10% less performance than with 1.30 version.
Yeah, +1 on that (again). Now that we won't have opportunity to use Home 1 anymore, please give us chance to disable Home 2 from running whe used i.e. Youtube VR (with Oculus Support) from Steam VR..
Cyber: pleae give us the possibility to not using home while playing some high demanding games like project cars 2 or DCS World. Having home 2 in the background its high-memory resource hog.
If you don't want Home 2 running, you can stop it now. Hacky, but it works.
Go into C:\Program Files\Oculus\Support\oculus-worlds\Home2\Binaries\Win64 and rename or delete the file Home2-Win64-Shipping.exe
That's Home. If that isn't found, Dash still works, you still have your library and can launch games and stuff, but there's no home loaded (or store), you just get a bare empty scene instead.
Or you can replace the exe with your own vr program as a home alternative. 🙂
Of course at some point the software will probably checksum and detect the exe is missing/wrong and redownload it, but I haven't seen that happen yet.
If you don't want Home 2 running, you can stop it now. Hacky, but it works.
Go into C:\Program Files\Oculus\Support\oculus-worlds\Home2\Binaries\Win64 and rename or delete the file Home2-Win64-Shipping.exe
That's Home. If that isn't found, Dash still works, you still have your library and can launch games and stuff, but there's no home loaded (or store), you just get a bare empty scene instead.
Or you can replace the exe with your own vr program as a home alternative. 🙂
Of course at some point the software will probably checksum and detect the exe is missing/wrong and redownload it, but I haven't seen that happen yet.
That doesn´t work, every time you see a Dash error message over the game screen. I just not want to have home2 loaded in memory just for saving resources.
If you don't want Home 2 running, you can stop it now. Hacky, but it works.
Go into C:\Program Files\Oculus\Support\oculus-worlds\Home2\Binaries\Win64 and rename or delete the file Home2-Win64-Shipping.exe
That's Home. If that isn't found, Dash still works, you still have your library and can launch games and stuff, but there's no home loaded (or store), you just get a bare empty scene instead.
Or you can replace the exe with your own vr program as a home alternative. 🙂
Of course at some point the software will probably checksum and detect the exe is missing/wrong and redownload it, but I haven't seen that happen yet.
That doesn´t work, every time you see a Dash error message over the game screen. I just not want to have home2 loaded in memory just for saving resources.
I've just completed a song in Beat Saber, flew around in Google Earth and drew in Oculus Medium, all with no dash error and no Home loaded.
Please give us the possibility to start a game without oculus home running, like selecting the old home aplication. With OCULUS home running in background, I have between 5-10% less performance than with 1.30 version.
+1 on this for me as well! Running Elite Dangerous without Oculus is the only way I've found to run it without crashes; and I use a gtx1080 w/16gb of memory and an 8600k so my system should be more than capable.
