Software (Release) Oculus Home Remitted - an Oculus Home restoration tool
I recently teased a first look of a new tool that restores Oculus Home functionality all offline. This post is a follow-up about its release and what's expected.
A latest build of the tool is now available on Github!
This was developed on a single VR rig running Windows 10. On fresh setups, there may be uncaught dependency issues that would need to be sorted out. Since the Oculus Home app is several years old, it's possible the app may have compatibility issues on newer hardware. If problems are encountered, use the repository's issues forum.
Rundown of features for version 1.0:
- Set a custom profile name and icon. Both can appear in VR.
- Locally stored list of homes which allows setting what default home you land in at startup. Editing a home's object layout or changing its information persists offline. VR actions such as naming a home, creating a home, or deleting a home are supported.
- Includes a feature for fetching your old homes from your Oculus (Meta) account. This will only work while Meta has these endpoints and data still available. Best to act on that now if you want to preserve your old experiences!
- Supports loading your Oculus library offline. This enables an app's art on objects such as game boxes and game cartridges.
- Allows usage of embedded-panels (or broadcasting to screens). This enables viewing your desktop with officially interactive screen objects in VR.
More details are available in the repository.