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The forced change from old Oculus home feels invasive.
With any other application I wouldn't mind so much, but with the immersiveness of VR, it honestly feels as if someone has just bulldozed my home while I was sleeping and moved me into a cubical without asking my permission.
I know this may seem silly to some, but one of my primary uses for Oculus Rift was stress management. I actually found the original Oculus Home to be quite soothing and would often put on the headset to help with anxiety while speaking with a support group. I was a victim of several years of violence and still struggle with PTSD.
The new Home feels like I'm locked in a small cubical and can't be used the way the previous version was used. It actually stresses me out and has completely ruined something I'd come to depend on to help me cope with stress.
Is there any way to simply view the old Oculus Home 3d environments again?
I know this may seem silly to some, but one of my primary uses for Oculus Rift was stress management. I actually found the original Oculus Home to be quite soothing and would often put on the headset to help with anxiety while speaking with a support group. I was a victim of several years of violence and still struggle with PTSD.
The new Home feels like I'm locked in a small cubical and can't be used the way the previous version was used. It actually stresses me out and has completely ruined something I'd come to depend on to help me cope with stress.
Is there any way to simply view the old Oculus Home 3d environments again?
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In the meantime, I recommend giving the new Home a chance; You may find that designing / decorating your own personal, virtual user-environment however you like (and being able to move around freely in it) can be stress-relieving in and of itself!
I enjoyed to relax in Classic Home too - it was simply a great room, loved the sound of the crackling fire and the gentle running water - and I loved the simplicity. That room worked much better than Guided Meditation VR. Regarding relaxation I find Home 2 a true disaster - and I have spent more than 30 minutes staring at the ship and the waves (and the other environments are just terrible - did like the solar system to some degree, but the sun is too close and disturbing).
We are many users who - for various reasons - greatly disagree with Oculus' destruction of the Core 1.0 platform used and loved by many. One of the greatest mistakes is to think that most people share your own taste and preferences - because in fact, it may be the other way around. Oculus should provide compatibility and stability - user comfort above all - right now the massive amount of user complaints indicate that Oculus is doing massive damage to their platform and their user base, unfortunately.
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Which is the same reason I am hesitant to even use my rift today as its been doing nothing but crashing my pc every time i bring up the little app window that says close or resume, just a honest nightmare. Of course minus those glitches its not that big of a deal, but if we're talking about wanting the best experience then yes, yes it is.
There are many more than a dozen complaints - check out this threat, and it keeps getting longer ;-)
https://forums.oculusvr.com/community/discussion/69768/rift-release-1-31-rolling-out-now-live/p1
Each complaint may represent hundreds of users who don't post in this forum.
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https://forums.oculusvr.com/community/discussion/69768/rift-release-1-31-rolling-out-now-live/p1
Each complaint may represent hundreds of users who don't post in this forum.
If we take out your posts in that thread, the pages are cut in half lol. You have like 5 posts for every one complaint!
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You do have a point, lol, still 90% of the current posts in that threat aren't mine ;-)
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Still, try to compare the number of positive posts with the amount of posts describing problems with 1.31. Eventually it's up to Oculus to decide - if it's only a dozen of complaints, I fully agree - then there's isn't a problem, we'll adapt and all is fine.
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To the OP: I get how you feel ^^. Home 1 was indeed a relaxing Home. Though I would (obviously) give a chance to the new one. As it was said, it can also be very soothing:
- the new interface allows you to use your computer while in VR, so you can put any music that you want, while being in VR. I'm pretty sure it can help relaxing (though that will obviously depend on you ^^).
- Changing the room (decoration and furniture) is also a common way to relax. I'd say: let your creativity out!
If that new Home really doesn't help you and you need the previous one, I think the Oculus Go uses the previous Home? Look :
- Great small apps. Great ports of bigger games.
- Great VR-specific features. Not enough showcased!!!
- Too many actors in the industry, the market is totally broken.
My hopes for VR next gen:
- Better ratio between visual quality and power needs. No more godrays and less SDE.
- Full Body Tracking.
"If you don't mind, do you want me to take you there? Where dreams come true."
Could this be partly due to how we perceive VR in general compared to pancake?
Because it's an interface that we're in, rather than just one that we use, it has a bigger effect when a change is made. Particularly when we like to control the changes around us in real life, it can seem more intrusive when other people make changes for us. Maybe the word Home also contributes, because home is something we think of as ours, not someone else's to change.
I'm not arguing for or against one version of the other, I definitely lean towards the control freak but I wouldn't want to give up the features of core 2.0 now. It's just interesting to read the comments and I can understand both sides.
I would like to shout out to the devs for working on the code that handles the launching of non-Oculus games, it used to be the case that I'd have to modify many of the .json files to get Steam and non-Steam, non-Oculus games to launch but this seems to have been improved lately, and games that didn't shut down (unless shut down from within Steam) now appear to cleanly shut down via the Oculus menu button.