I downloaded the latest Oculus Setup (congrats on the launch!), but when I run it it only tells me that Oculus Home is already installed. On the other hand, Oculus Home still says "Beta" and I'm not seeing any differences from last week. How do I get the latest and greatest?
Also, now that the SDK is out, what's the details on Side Loading, because I'm not seeing any changes. Great if true, but I was expecting something based upon the hush-hush 😉
Yes, it still says Beta in Home. If you were already on the latest 1.3 private build, there will not be much difference aside from the game content being there and a few last features (like the key redemption).
Got it! So wait, there isn't any "allow unsupported apps" option that users need to click? With all of the "This is a sensitive matter" and "we can't talk about this" I wasn't expecting an identical run-time and near-identical SDK!
Correction, the user needs to enable apps from "Unknown Sources."
It's not quite my cup of tea, but I can certainly understand the reasoning behind it. Beyond that, the implementation is friendly and easy to reach. Rather than fail apps started when this setting is disabled, Oculus even shows instructions to enable unknown sources in-HMD. Kudos Oculus 🙂
P.S. Looking at this there really was no need to stress devs out with the secrecy. I think Oculus is just bad at communication in general, watching the subreddit there's been a bit of a train-wreck leading up to launch. Who cares though? Amazing product!
EDIT: And I don't mean that cyber is bad at communication. He does a great job managing a million things with the information he's given and allowed to distribute. I'm talking about the people making decisions about information release, not to mention Palmer's Twitter lol
