![]() I highly encourage that you DO NOT try to walk around in first person controlling your vision with your head and mouse is a first-class ticket to puke city. Keep pressing F5 until the menu goes away once that has been done.Īt this point you should be all ready to go and explore. ![]() If your eye spacers are set to 1, put 58. IPD will be the first thing selected and what you need to set it to depends on the IPD setting you use on your quest 2. To do this, with the headset on, press F5 to open up a VR settings menu. Now once you're in the world you can take a look around and it might look pretty wonky part of the reason is we haven't set the IPD properly yet. All you need to do is keep your mouse pointer in the middle of the screen and vision will return to normal. If you're not expecting it you can easily mistake it for some kind of glitch. You see, in order to control the many boxes and menus you need in SL VR, the developer has made it so moving your mouse around the edges of the screen will zoom into those areas making it easier to click on things. The second might be a super close-up of a part of the screen that is almost impossible to look at or understand the first time you see it. Once you see a purple box that says "Firestorm-P3-VRMOD", simply press TAB once again and you should be in the game.Īt this point you probably see one of two things, the first being a pretty cool view of your character and the world you're inhabiting. Once headset is on and a comfortable position has been found, press CTRL+TAB to start the connection to SteamVR, this should change the view inside the headset. Taking off the headset is enough to discombobulate the camera position in SL, so you want your head to start in a good position. Once you have loaded into a sim, open up steam and click the VR icon in the upper-righthand corner of the Steam window, this will bring you into the SteamVR home environment.Īt this point you want to put on your headset and get into a comfy position that you can stay put in. Once connected you open up the VR viewer and log in like normal. Alternatively, you could use the Virtual Desktop app to stream it wirelessly, that's what I did. Then you need to connect your Quest 2 to your PC using a link cable. "I highly encourage that you DO NOT try to walk around in first person," as they put it to me, "controlling your vision with your head and mouse is a first-class ticket to puke city."įirst you need to install the VR Firestorm viewer from here. As with any unsupported third party software, user beware - and seeing as Second Life isn't optimized for VR, also beware vertigo: Fortunately, the Redditor who shot and sent me this demo video, " IDontUseAnimeAvatars", also sent me highly detailed instructions on doing just that read those below. Setting up your Quest 2 to run with Second Life, to be sure, does require some extra patience and tinkering. ![]() ![]() ![]() While the venerable sandbox MMO wasn't originally architected to run in VR, its user community has created a number of unsupported viewers that are compatible with leading virtual reality platforms, while the world itself boasts tens of thousands of excellent locations to explore - not to mention as many users online 24/7. What you're watching above is a pretty cool hack of classic virtual world and new VR technology: Oculus Quest 2 running Second Life. ![]()
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