When you install BigScreen using Oculus Home does it use a steam account? If not where exactly does it store an account? Also how do you make a different BigScreen account in Oculus home? Do you have to uninstall it from Oculus home first? Thanks!
@lovethis I already had over a hundred hours on BigScreen using it through Steam, and my first time launching it from Oculus Home since it has detected all of the settings and everything from what I was last using in Steam and vice versa. Not sure if this exactly helps but whenever you do something with it from Oculus Home or Steam it saves it for your next time whether you go to launch it from Steam or Oculus Home. Whether you NEED Steam or not, I'm not positive as I had already been using it prior, and still do. From what I have seen, everyone who uses BigScreen only has one account, though really, that's all you need.
@cero490 - I just can't remember if I had to setup account when I first installed BigScreen on Oculus Home. I was using it on Steam before this, but I can't remember if I used my Steam account when I set it up in Oculus Home. When you first installed Big Screen Oculus Home, can you remember if you had to put your steam account details in when you installed it? Or did you have to make an account in Oculus Home? I just can't remember what I did and I'd like to know where this new account is stored? Does it log you into a steam account or an Oculus Home account when you use it in Oculus Home? Thanks!
@lovethis When I initially launched from Oculus Home I didn't have to create an account or link it with Steam or anything, it was all ready to go with all of the same settings and everything I had from the Steam version. I'm not exactly sure where it stores the account, but you can always make changes to it, if that helps in any way? I can launch BigScreen from Oculus Home while not being logged into Steam, and when next I go onto the Steam version it will still have any changes present, but I never made a BigScreen account through Oculus Home, just on Steam, and it's logged me in automatically and correctly every time since whether I am on Steam or Oculus Home, so I'm not really sure what to say because I can use it without Steam, but that's where I initially made my BigScreen account...
This is strange that you don't have to make an account. So are you just creating a name and logging in to Big Screen anonymously? Maybe CyberReality can answer this?
@lovethis No need for creating a new name or anything, and no, not using it anonymously. Though I am also not signing myself in or anything either? Just whenever I launch BigScreen either in Steam or from Oculus Home I appear with all my last settings, including my username and avatar, and just everything really lol
I'm just not sure how Oculus Home is doing this and I was curious about it. I changed my name in the Big Screen settings in the Oculus Home version, but it didn't change my user name in steam. I think if it was using my steam account then it would also change my steam user name. I just wonder how it's logging me in without asking for login information. I think it might be using my Oculus Home account since this is where I'm logging into BigScreen from.
All Bigscreen's settings are stored in appdata\local. For example: C:\Users\kojack\AppData\Local\BigScreen\User Data\Default So it shouldn't matter if you are using the steam or oculus version, they use the same settings files.
Both the steam and oculus home versions of big screen support steam vr and oculus sdk (you can choose the sdk to use via the command line). I don't have windiff installed on my laptop, but both versions look identical from a file point of view.
