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cybereality
Inspiring
March 28, 2016

Oculus 1.3 Requires Unity 5.3.4p1 + New OVRPlugin for Unity 5

To develop for Oculus 1.3 you'll NEED to specifically be using Unity 5.3.4p1:
https://unity3d.com/unity/qa/patch-releases

You will also NEED to download the OVRPlugin separately and patch Unity:
https://developer.oculus.com/downloads/game-engines/1.3.0/OVRPlugin_for_Unity_5/

Finally, you'll have to update the Oculus Unity Utilities:
https://developer.oculus.com/downloads/game-engines/1.3.0/Oculus_Utilities_for_Unity_5/

If you have any questions, please let me know. Thanks.
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    piggy1
    New Participant
    March 28, 2016
    5.4.0 beta? or maybe soonish?
    kevinseven
    New Participant
    March 29, 2016
    5.4.0b8 seems to work but 5.4.0b11 crashes to the desktop when you hit play or just never kicks off the HMD. The Oculus Lobby always stays live.

    *EDIT

    Nevermind. Forgot to delete and overwrite the contents of C:\Program Files\Unity\Editor\Data\VR\oculus with the OVRPlugin_for_Unity_5. 5.4.0b11 seems to work okay now.
    Dukealicious
    Inspiring
    March 29, 2016
    I got it working with Unity 5.4.0b11.  I can continue development but builds are crashing for me when they didn't before 1.3.  Could just be my game but I wouldn't recommend using it with the beta.  
    MikeF
    Inspiring
    March 29, 2016
    Is there any way to delegate the oculus app to the system tray instead of the taskbar?
    Or just not have it running when in the unity editor?
    PixelRouter
    Up and Coming
    March 30, 2016
    Did you guys drop DK2 support?

    I've done all this and get "Initialization of Device Oculus Failed".

    I've still got runtime 0.8 installed too. Is there a new runtime installer or something I'm missing?
    MikeF
    Inspiring
    March 30, 2016
    PixelRouter, you'l have to uninstall 0.8 and grab https://www.oculus.com/en-us/setup/

    Another question, i'm getting a much lighter image in the rift vs. onscreen now, and i also have a blue bar to the right about 50 pixels wide visible on both the monitor and rift, any ideas?
    dshankar
    Participant
    March 30, 2016
    We noticed a big problem with Unity 5.3.4p1 + Oculus 1.3 runtime + OVRPlugin 1.3.0 + Oculus Utilities 1.3.0:

    Setting VRSettings.renderScale makes the application render at ~2 frames per second.

    We isolated that line of code. Commenting out `VRSettings.renderScale =` brought us back to full frame rate.
    Software engineer, startup founder, Y Combinator alum. @dshankar
    cyberealityAuthor
    Inspiring
    March 30, 2016
    What are you setting renderScale to?
    Have you tried modifying in the editor rather than in code?
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    Nelug0
    Nelug0
    New Participant
    March 31, 2016
    Hi guys!
    I'm having a problem with plugin 1.3: 
    VR: OpenVR Error! OpenVR failed initialization with error code VRInitError_Init_HmdNotFound: "Hmd Not Found (108)"!

    Do you know why it doesn't find my DK2? The Oculus app works perfectly with it.
    I installed Unity 5.4.0b11 + Oculus 1.3 runtime + OVRPlugin 1.3.0 + Oculus Utilities 1.3.0

    Nelug0
    Nelug0
    New Participant
    March 31, 2016
    Nevermind, 
    I've installed Unity 5.3.4p1 and it works like charm.
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