How to get rid of 'Chaperone Boundaries'?

[Algy-Lacey]

Hello, I'm an Oculus Rift user and am loving VR...

But...

There is one thing that is bothering me that I can't figure out...

 

Even with using Open Composite, there is an area with a red coloured line around it on 'the floor' in VR. It is the size of the room that I set up when I first used VR. I can't find any settings to change to make it dissapear. I think it might be called 'chaperone area' or some such. When I am flying in VR there is a rectangular red lined box towards the bottom of the cockpit.

 

Please can anyone help?

[dburne]

That is quite odd, I am not aware of Open Composite having any type of chaperone boundary.

You are not launching Steam VR for any reason right?

Also check in your Oculus settings.

 

Edited May 4, 2020 by dburne

[Algy-Lacey]

No, not launching Steam VR for any reason. Open composite is set as default VR app now.

 

And besides, I have looked through all of the settings on Steam and all of the settings on Steam VR. Apart from maybe running the Steam VR tutorial again, perhaps that would do it.

 

I have checked settings of Oculus Home as well.

 

I'm stumped!

[Algy-Lacey]

I managed to sus it out with some fiddling...

 

I tried changing the Room size in Steam->Developer->Developer Settings as recommended by SCG_Fenris_Wolf in the 'Copy/Paste settings plus ZOOM for best spotting' thread, but after setting Room size as Gigantic, and clicking Quick Calibrate... I still had the red rectangle toward the bottom of my view when in VR.

 

But THIS worked... the screen that Oculus Home displays in the headset... I clicked the cog for settings with my Rift touch controller and chose the Guardian tab and turned the Guardian boundary off... et voila! No more red rectangle.

 

Disclaimer: If someone does this but wants to use VR in the whole of their room, walking about or whatever, there will no longer be a warning that you're at the edge of your play area and about to knock that vase over!

 

Cheers

Algy-Lacey

[dburne]

Yeah that is really weird, not sure why a setting for Steam VR would be affecting you with Open Composite as you are

not running Stream VR.

[Algy-Lacey]

4 minutes ago, dburne said:

Yeah that is really weird, not sure why a setting for Steam VR would be affecting you with Open Composite as you are

not running Stream VR.

 

The only logical thing I can think of is that perhaps I installed Open Composite incorrectly and it is still using the Steam VR .dll

 

But that's just a guess, I really have no idea.