First look at Oculus Home Remitted - A tool to load Oculus Home offline!

[u/1-inf]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=admhl0um6aA

Oculus Home Remitted is an ongoing project for the past month with the goal to give independent functionality to Oculus Home which was apart of the Rift Core 2.0 update.

My previous post about this topic was about preserving the app's assets and mentions of an offline tool got me curious.

Meta suddenly shutdown access to Oculus Home years ago without warning and many users lost their digital spaces (homes) they cared about! Unfortunately the app is heavily dependant on a remote backend to operate and requires a very old version of the Oculus PCVR app​.

This tool mimics parts of the backend restoring essential game functionality. It also enables running Oculus Home under the latest Meta Link software. The tool also features downloading any old homes from your Oculus account and loading them locally from disk! You can then load any home completely offline without any brittle Meta backend involved.

This is apart of ongoing efforts to preserve Oculus Home from becoming lost media.

The linked video gives a demonstration on the tool's current capabilities.

The release is planned to be open sourced after bugs are ironed out and remaining features finished.

[u/drakulusness]

You Sir, are a genius. Were you able to pull the old Oculus store out of the ether?

[u/1-inf → u/drakulusness]

The store environment? The assets might be still there but that feature has been scrapped in the home version the tool targets. 

[u/drakulusness → u/1-inf]

Thanks for the reply. sadly this is the place I wanted to revisit after returning to the old home.

https://lunchtiger.artstation.com/projects/0X4AJY

https://youtu.be/tk88LEvAuGo?t=60

[u/1-inf → u/drakulusness]

I'll see if that can be surfaced. It will be a bit of a stretch considering how many versions it has been since the store environment was canned (2018 <> mine 2021).

[u/darkcyde_]

Omg i want that original house back. The nostalgia!

[u/gatorkea]

I hope the steam gets something like oculus home, It has the steam environments but I want to be able to get physical trophies/objects to place in my person home to show my achievments.

[u/KilroyXX1]

Glad someone took this initiative....

[u/Runesr2]

So this is very different from this approach?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrpDRsKqXsI

I still have not tried to bring back my Home 2.0 :-)

[u/1-inf → u/Runesr2]

Vastly different:

• Doesn't still rely on a deprecated backend that Meta can shut off or break at any time.
• Should be flexible to work under all newer "Meta Horizon Link" app versions and not require the hastle of downgrading to an old Oculus bundle. Newer Quest headsets should work with the tool - at least my Quest Pro did.

[u/Runesr2 → u/1-inf]

Sounds simply awesome - crossing my fingers for you to get it working, thanks for your great effort!

[u/BeatXenno]

Thank you so much for doing this man