Rift SI Release 1.27 Rolling Out to Public Test Channel

cybereality

The latest Rift SI version 1.27 is beginning to rolling out now to the Public Test Channel. We've updated the Oculus desktop app with search improvements and a new results page, and added some new features for Library management. There's also a new uncommon item in Home that supports a sneak preview of an upcoming feature inspired by the community... See something you like or have a new feature idea? Share feedback and suggestions through our Rift Core UserVoice Group, and as always, please report bugs via the in-app reporting tool.

• Oculus desktop app
• Updates to search, including experimentation of a new results page to browse, sort, and filter results.
• Improved Library management with new options for sorting and filtering. We've also updated hiding functionality so it's now persistent across the desktop app.
• Improved notification system, including experimentation of new notifications for friend activity and content updates.
• Rift Core 2.0 Beta
• Dash:
• New overlay UI shows the distance and scale of Dash panels as you position them with the thumbstick.
• Added various stability improvements.
• Home:
• There's an uncommon item in Home that now supports a sneak preview of an upcoming feature inspired by the community.

MAC_MAN86

I'm all for variety and welcome updates. Just would still welcome the option to always return to CLASSIC HOME after it is finally released. However, we are all experiencing less fps and this to some means a drop from 90 to below 45 due to ASW. For me I always get from 30 to 45fps anyways due to my old PC. It works fine for me but look for any possible method of maximizing my RAM. Does the old method of Run As Admin on the OculusVR.exe still work and then run the games direct and if not can you allow this?

snowdog

Is there any news of a free locomotion option yet? It's been the most requested feature since suggestions started.

TonserTonni

MAC_MAN86 said:

......Does the old method of Run As Admin on the OculusVR.exe still work and then run the games direct and if not can you allow this?

Seconding this.

kzintzi

Gotta say, LOVE the fact that this is in the Rift forum and not the General one

Calimero_Oeuf

"Improved notification system, including experimentation of new notifications for friend activity and content updates."
I hope there will be also a message system and a notification when playing 3rd party games from unknow source

No device renaming to detect easily what usb to replug ?

RattyUK

Is one of the new additions multiple library locations @cybereality ? Or did I just miss it in the first place - just moved Arizona Sunshine to my NVMe drive

nalex66

RattyUK said:

Is one of the new additions multiple library locations @cybereality ? Or did I just miss it in the first place - just moved Arizona Sunshine to my NVMe drive

That was added a while back. 

GeeKay9999

snowdog said:

Is there any news of a free locomotion option yet? It's been the most requested feature since suggestions started.

Honestly, there are zero games I play with teleportation. It's really irritating going from playing something like In Death, an archery game with free locomotion, to Oculus Home, where I have my archery range set up, because every now and then I'll want to move slightly to the right and hit the stick out of muscle memory, but then I'll end up three feet in front of me, facing a new direction.

If Oculus Home was a game, it'd be sitting derelict in my library just like Robo Recall or The Unspoken.

Thmoas

I never wander around OH and don't care. Free locomotion might change my mind. Nothing beats the freedom of free locomotion. I think they will never do it though, people are not used to it and they only want to provide "easy" choices in their UI (like, no "advanced" button).

Richooal

Thmoas said:

I never wander around OH and don't care.

Same here. I have a real home to walk around. All I need from Oculus is a functional place to arrange and launch my VR apps. It should use as few resources as possible.

john.zigmont

I would agree with the above and yet no way to  launch Steam games with options in home yet without editing json files.

RattyUK

john.zigmont said:

I would agree with the above and yet no way to  launch Steam games with options in home yet without editing json files.

Once I have launched a game from Steam (from the games menu, not from Steam Home) it appears on my Library in Oculus and will launch from there, does this not happen for you?  Maybe I am lucky as I have yet to experience the pleasure of editing a .json file

Mind you, I'm not sure what you mean by 'with options' so guess this may be outside of how I use Oculus library.

Calimero_Oeuf

RattyUK said:

john.zigmont said:

I would agree with the above and yet no way to  launch Steam games with options in home yet without editing json files.

Once I have launched a game from Steam (from the games menu, not from Steam Home) it appears on my Library in Oculus and will launch from there, does this not happen for you?  Maybe I am lucky as I have yet to experience the pleasure of editing a .json file

Mind you, I'm not sure what you mean by 'with options' so guess this may be outside of how I use Oculus library.

not every time, I did all json and icons manually by myself to have all my steam games in oculus menu.

Also when you play a steam game, your friends don't know you're playing they only see you online.

john.zigmont

Calimero_Oeuf said:

RattyUK said:

john.zigmont said:

I would agree with the above and yet no way to  launch Steam games with options in home yet without editing json files.

Once I have launched a game from Steam (from the games menu, not from Steam Home) it appears on my Library in Oculus and will launch from there, does this not happen for you?  Maybe I am lucky as I have yet to experience the pleasure of editing a .json file

Mind you, I'm not sure what you mean by 'with options' so guess this may be outside of how I use Oculus library.

not every time, I did all json and icons manually by myself to have all my steam games in oculus menu.

Also when you play a steam game, your friends don't know you're playing they only see you online.

An example of steam game with options would be Project Cars 2 it works with Desktop,Rift, and Vive. This displays the icon in Oculus home but will not launch from Oculus home without editing json files.

nalex66

Huh, not sure if it's due to 1.27, but I just noticed that can't see my friends list. When I click on my profile in the Oculus app it says I have 200 friends, but where the list should be, it just says Add Friends. If I search for someone on my friends list, I can't add them because it says that we are already friends.

Tried restarting the Oculus service, but it didn't change anything. I'm going to try opting out of the PTC to see if that fixes it.

Edit: nope, rolling back to 1.26 didn’t fix it. Must be something other than 1.27 causing it. 

snowdog

That's cos you don't have any friends. Everybody hates you.

nalex66

The friends list problem must be an Oculus server issue. I was going to try repairing my installation, but them I thought to check my Go app, and it's not seeing my friends list either.

geebee666

Any one else noticed Home Stuttering / shuddering when using Dash especially when using youtube etc. ?
I have posted on Reddit as well and it seems some others are having a similar issue to me.

dburne

I have noticed ever since being updated to 1.27 when I put on headset and Oculus Home launches, whilst it is loading I have two small concentric circles of white light in the left hand side of the headset beaming back toward the left hand side of me.

Once Home is launched that goes away and all is normal.

Anyone else seeing this while Home is launching in 1.27??

cybereality

That's probably glare from the Fresnel lenses. You can usually see this on flat black backgrounds with white logos. It's normal for these kinds of lenses, though it has been largely reduced in Oculus Go. 

xeno3d

So did anyone find this uncommon item yet?

nalex66

xeno3d said:

So did anyone find this uncommon item yet?

It’s the CRT monitor. You can now pin some screens or apps to it. 

vanfanel

nalex66 said:

The friends list problem must be an Oculus server issue. I was going to try repairing my installation, but them I thought to check my Go app, and it's not seeing my friends list either.

I'm seeing this too.  A couple weeks ago I was getting this error: https://forums.oculusvr.com/community/discussion/64968/unable-to-load-friends-parties-in-rift-or-go#latest

That got resolved but now I'm seeing what you're seeing..."Add Friends"  I've opened a ticket but who knows.  I've actually seen this problem pop from time to time over the past year.  Comes and goes so I'm guessing it's some server issue.

dburne

cybereality said:

That's probably glare from the Fresnel lenses. You can usually see this on flat black backgrounds with white logos. It's normal for these kinds of lenses, though it has been largely reduced in Oculus Go. 

Ok thanks for the info. Odd I only see it whilst home is launching and just started. Never have seen them when fully in VR.

nalex66

vanfanel said:

nalex66 said:

The friends list problem must be an Oculus server issue. I was going to try repairing my installation, but them I thought to check my Go app, and it's not seeing my friends list either.

I'm seeing this too.  A couple weeks ago I was getting this error: https://forums.oculusvr.com/community/discussion/64968/unable-to-load-friends-parties-in-rift-or-go#latest

That got resolved but now I'm seeing what you're seeing..."Add Friends"  I've opened a ticket but who knows.  I've actually seen this problem pop from time to time over the past year.  Comes and goes so I'm guessing it's some server issue.

I've got a support ticket open as well, but so far they haven't come up with anything useful. They asked whether I had recently linked a FB account, but I don't have a FB account. I did accept a couple random friend requests just before noticing the problem, but I have no way of knowing now who they were to unfriend them. I tried unfriending someone that was recently added with chinese characters in his name, but it didn't help. The friend count updated (from 200 to 199 friends) on my profile page, but I still can't see the list.

cybereality

We're looking into the friends list issue. Thanks.

KnightMason

Still no fix for the controllers going to sleep in the middle of a game due to "no activity"?
Why is it taking years to fix a timer variable while lesser "problems" get fixed?

The left hand isn't used as much and someone overlooked that issue. Especially while sitting in a chair.

So many games are unplayable due to this problem. Like Skyrim VR, Fallout 4, etc.
I have found this to be downright game breaking as I need to react with my left hand for something only to find the controller is asleep. Again. By time it initializes again I'm dead. And my hate for it is growing exponentially.

Edit: Or how about not go to sleep at all while I'm in a game?
When friends ask if they should get an Oculus I really don't know what to tell them at this point.
Because other options don't have this problem.
Sadly my second VR headset purchase will be factoring this issue in as well if it isn't fixed.

vanfanel

KnightMason said:

Still no fix for the controllers going to sleep in the middle of a game due to "no activity"?
Why is it taking years to fix a timer variable while lesser "problems" get fixed?

The left hand isn't used as much and someone overlooked that issue. Especially while sitting in a chair.

So many games are unplayable due to this problem. Like Skyrim VR, Fallout 4, etc.
I have found this to be downright game breaking as I need to react with my left hand for something only to find the controller is asleep. Again. By time it initializes again I'm dead. And my hate for it is growing exponentially.

Edit: Or how about not go to sleep at all while I'm in a game?
When friends ask if they should get an Oculus I really don't know what to tell them at this point.
Because other options don't have this problem.
Sadly my second VR headset purchase will be factoring this issue in as well if it isn't fixed.

I've never heard of this particular problem or encountered it myself.  If played skyrim for countless hours but the left/right has never fallen asleep on me.  In fact it has never fallen asleep on me in the middle of any game.

cybereality

The sleep issue should have been resolved around a month ago. You're saying it's still happening? We made it so any capacitive touch of a button or stick will keep the controller awake. You don't have to press the button, but you will need your finger to be on or around the controller buttons, triggers, or sticks (i.e. it won't work if you place the controllers on a table).

dburne

vanfanel said:

KnightMason said:

Still no fix for the controllers going to sleep in the middle of a game due to "no activity"?
Why is it taking years to fix a timer variable while lesser "problems" get fixed?

The left hand isn't used as much and someone overlooked that issue. Especially while sitting in a chair.

So many games are unplayable due to this problem. Like Skyrim VR, Fallout 4, etc.
I have found this to be downright game breaking as I need to react with my left hand for something only to find the controller is asleep. Again. By time it initializes again I'm dead. And my hate for it is growing exponentially.

Edit: Or how about not go to sleep at all while I'm in a game?
When friends ask if they should get an Oculus I really don't know what to tell them at this point.
Because other options don't have this problem.
Sadly my second VR headset purchase will be factoring this issue in as well if it isn't fixed.

I've never heard of this particular problem or encountered it myself.  If played skyrim for countless hours but the left/right has never fallen asleep on me.  In fact it has never fallen asleep on me in the middle of any game.

That has been my experience also.
I don't play as much Touch games today as I used to, but I did quite a lot and can say it never happened to me.