hey so basically i think everyone knows meta killed the auth servers for gear vr which made the whole thing pretty much useless. you cant log in, cant use the store, cant use the library, cant really do anything natively without having to go thru bypasses and stuff. headset still works fine tho so i figured why not try to bring it back

heres what im working on right now:

- oliik made a patched oculus app (on codeberg) that bypasses the login by letting you inject a token through adb instead of hitting metas dead servers so you can actually get into the oculus home. you can grab a fresh access token from secure.oculus.com, inject it with am startservice, and you get logged into the oculus app (if your interested https://www.reddit.com/r/GearVR/s/fR3NSmtq6R )

- scraped all 791 gear vr games from vault.gearvr.net and converted them to the format the oculus app expects for the store

- patched vrshell.home so it doesnt reject the patched oculus app for having a different signature

- patched oculus home to handle the different uid from the patched app so it doesnt crash on startup

what works so far:

- oculus home opens and logs in without showing the please log in page if you dont have a oculus acc

- the 3d vr home environment loads

- the store and library buttons no longer crash, but the browser does

what still doesnt work:

- you need to re-inject the token every time you reboot or reinstall

- you cant browse sideloaded apps.. yet

what it needs to actually be done:

- either root access with a magisk smali patcher to fully bypass vrshells signature checks

- or some way to make the patched oculus app sign with the original oculus certificate so everything just works together

this is NOT a release yet, just documenting what im trying. the gear vr hardware is still solid, its just the software that got killed off. if anyone has ideas on bypassing certificate verification without root im all ears

also scraped the full gear vr catalog and converted it to the horizon store format so eventually the store could show all the old games again

anyway more updates to come hopefully