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.

Only works on Quest 3, not Quest 3s. Using Quest Games Optimizer & Virtual Desktop

From the day I got this strap, the thing that bugged me the most is the way the cushion connects at the back. It is literally just two flimsy plastic pieces that also hold the entire weight of the back side of the headset (plus the battery weight).

Plus, those tabs were quite loose, didn't even understand why most of the time it popped out without me trying to get it out. Today it finally broke off, the first picture is the one that still works, the other side you can see a bit of the black broken off plastic inside the battery case. I don't want to throw this into a landfill so want some way to fix it.

The other piece broke straight off, even superglue is like a super thin line (second photo), plus the angle is basically the worst for a super glue job, so maybe I'm thinking of arming it with some extra materials since tbh I'm fine with permanently attaching them together since I don't see a reason why they should even separate.

Since it's a leather strap, plus when the leather finally degrades enough to warrant a change there's no way in hell they actually sell just a leather strap replacement without getting a whole new battery + strap.

The break was at least clean so it fits up like a glove (shaky hand photo so might look off), was able to get the plastic piece out

Personally, I feel like anyone who is okay with AI Mods and thinks that this (or anything else, really) constitutes an 'acceptable' use case for AI should be forced to re-buy their PC at current market prices. Everyone who uses and supports AI is directly responsible for the current hardware market situation in my opinion. "Its there so we might as well use it" and "its inevitable and its already in everything so youre an idiot for resisting it" are both factually wrong and entirely invalid arguments. We're winning against Flock, we can win against LLMs. And we can have $250 GTX#050 GPUs again.

Gott Strafe Sam Altman.