Rift Core 2.0 coming to Oculus soon

[dburne]

How do you get Oculus environment?

 

I only get the Steam environment. BoS is not in the list of Oculus games for me.

 

Are you using the Rift Core 2.0 beta?

 

Mine automatically does that by pressing the Oculus button whilst in the game, goes to the new Oculus Home environment. Press it again and goes back into the game.

Also you can add BoS as third party app in Oculus Home, so can be launched from there as well. 

[DarKcyde]

Best I've found so far is OVRdrop - about $15 and it does cost a few FPS performancewise, but it lets me put a nicely cropped map image down in the cockpit sorta like it was on a kneeboard - very cool.

 

I don't mean VR app (there's Rift Dash for that now).  I mean what do you use for the map itself?  Is there anything that links to the game and shows your position like the ingame full map does?  Or do you just get a .jpg of the map?

[TG-55Panthercules]

I don't mean VR app (there's Rift Dash for that now).  I mean what do you use for the map itself?  Is there anything that links to the game and shows your position like the ingame full map does?  Or do you just get a .jpg of the map?

 

Initially, I was using a Chrome browser window with the IL-2Missionplanner site's map displayed.  But while that had some interesting features/capabilities, I couldn't really get the flight plan display to look like I wanted it to, and I had to manually input the flight plan info.  So, instead, now I just snap a screenshot of the mission briefing map in PWCG (which already has the flight plan marked on it) and then open it up in the Windows Photos applet and use OVRdrop to crop away the Windows borders and put that map into my cockpit.

 

And no, that doesn't get you any info as far as real-time icon display from the game (but I never use that in the game anyway so it was no big deal for me).

 

At some point I want to experiment with the new OR Beta 2.0/Dash thing, but not until I can find some sort of way to make a window that has no borders and shows the map edge-to-edge - no luck so far doing that, so I still need the cropping capability of OVRdrop to do that.

Edited December 15, 2017 by TG-55Panthercules

[SCG_Fenris_Wolf]

Are you using the Rift Core 2.0 beta?

 

Mine automatically does that by pressing the Oculus button whilst in the game, goes to the new Oculus Home environment. Press it again and goes back into the game.

Also you can add BoS as third party app in Oculus Home, so can be launched from there as well. 

 

Of course.

 

No, I only get SteamVR, and can activate the dashboard and browse the desktop. But no Oculus Home.

[dburne]

Of course.

 

No, I only get SteamVR, and can activate the dashboard and browse the desktop. But no Oculus Home.

 

I guess I am a little confused, not sure how you could activate the dashboard and not have Oculus Home... do you not see your room environment?

 

Edit - Ah ok, nevermind - not enough coffee for me this morning I guess.

I see what you are saying, no it is just Dash - trying to open Home get a message there is already a VR app open ( BoS)...

Edited December 16, 2017 by dburne

[DarKcyde]

For broderless apps, try one of these.

http://westechsolutions.net/sites/WindowedBorderlessGaming/

or

https://github.com/Codeusa/Borderless-Gaming/releases

 

Also a ton of borderless solutions here, including an AHK script.

https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Glossary:Borderless_fullscreen_windowed

 

If there's any native Oculus border in VR, those likely wont help with that.

[TG-55Panthercules]

 

For broderless apps, try one of these.

http://westechsolutions.net/sites/WindowedBorderlessGaming/

or

https://github.com/Codeusa/Borderless-Gaming/releases

 

Also a ton of borderless solutions here, including an AHK script.

https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Glossary:Borderless_fullscreen_windowed

 

If there's any native Oculus border in VR, those likely wont help with that.

 

 

Thanks, but I don't think any of those are likely to be the answer to my problem/issue.  If I'm reading/interpreting them correctly, they are intended to work with games and to make the games display in a borderless full screen window.  What I'm looking for is something that will make a still photo image (in some sort of image app, whether Windows own Photos app or anything else like that) display in a small, resizable borderless window.  But maybe they can be made to work like I want - guess I might as well D/L one of them and give it a try.

 

[EDIT] - yep, that's what I thought.  Tried the first one - kind of a neat little app, and it did "work" with Windows Photo app, sort of - i.e., it recognized that I wanted to add that app's window, and it added it and let me resize it and move it around to place it anywhere on my screen.  BUT it still just displayed the entire Windows Photo window (borders and all).  I guess it expects the "game" that it thinks it will be dealing with to already know how to display itself without a border (although if the games all can display themselves without borders, I'm not really getting why you would need an app like this).  Anyway, guess I'll have to keep looking.  Thanks for the tips, though - it was worth a shot.

Edited December 17, 2017 by TG-55Panthercules

[MAJ_Balapan]

Anyway, guess I'll have to keep looking.

https://superuser.com/questions/538741/image-viewer-without-large-window-borders

[TG-55Panthercules]

https://superuser.com/questions/538741/image-viewer-without-large-window-borders

 

Awesome - thanks!

 

Honeyview looks like it's probably going to do the trick.  Got it to display my map image edge-to-edge in about the right size.  Now just got to play around with the Oculus Home/beta/Dash thingy tomorrow to see how to show the map window in the game, and then run some tests to see how the FPS impact compares to OVRdrop.