turn off spectator screen, steam VR and mixed reality headset
- Thread starter cypher007
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not sure why you would want to turn off the mirrored screen, I don't think it makes any difference to the framerate. The bit about logging in is the same in the Rift... If you're not wearing the headset you won't be able to log in or, if you're logged in, you won't be able to do anything in game.
what I mean is I log into steam VR put on headset can see steam VR house, I then select ED from the wall wait and then find the ED login screen is on the PC monitor not the VR headset. so I log in then put headset on and there is a annoying steam VR screen in the way of the ED screen. so get rid of that and I can finally play the game.
Oh, in the Rift I open the Oculus app, then go to Steam and launch Elite from the Steam menu in SteamVR mode without launching the SteamVR House or going into the Oculus Home... Maybe you could try to just launch it from the Steam desktop app without opening the steam home?
Don’t bother with steam, open oculus home, open ed launcher and launch from there, steam does not need to be used to play in vr.
The OP is using Windows Reality - no option to use Oculus.
I guess I forgot that the WMR and Rift have sensors that only switch the headsets on when the headset is put on. I usually only pull on my Pimax at the splash screen.
You might need to either enable auto logon (save password) or kinda touch type and click around peeking through the gap at the bottom of the headset. I needed to do that when I was tried using the Rift for Elite.
Why bother to open Oculus home when I'm not going to be doing anything in it? I just open the steam launcher and go. While everything is firing up I can do other things on my desktop without being bored by the Oculus home.
Two words: Oculus Dash
To my knowledge launching Elite from Home is the only way to use Dash 'Seemless Mode' while playing Elite. If that were not the case I wouldn't use either Steam or Home to launch Elite to be honest - I'd just use the standard Frontier Launcher.
Surely you would want to launch it in the native OculusVR mode and not SteamVR mode...? If doing what you do forces the use of the SteamVR runtime over the Oculus one you are likely getting worse performance than you would get using the deivces native runtime. I don't have Elite installed on Steam but most of the games I do (that support the Oculus Runtime) allow me to select the Oculus Runtime.
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@cylonsurfer, I'd answer you but I've hijacked this thread enough... Sorry OP.
When I tried the Samsung headset I had to launch steam from the cliff house. Which is always running. Then launch elite from steam.
So now there are two layers (three if you count windows) between elite and the hardware.
There is no way to run it in windows mr direct from ED as far as I know due to there currently being no native windows MR support for elite.
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as I said before, you have to simply use standard ED launcher. if in the options is enabled VR, it automatically start steam VR and works.
Man.... why do these threads that look like they are going to the answers I'm looking for always die in 2017 haha. Doesn't anyone play in VR and use OVR between 2017 and 2021? LoL I'd think more people would have posted success stories but its so so minimal whether on YouTube or on net. Sure wish I could find a solution for seamless functional OVR (currently trying OVR Toolkit) on Quest 2 with Virtual desktop and steamvr. Sorry for the rant. Is the answer and only solution using Oculus link and launching ED thru Oculus home... guess I'll ditch wireless and try that out.
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