4.7 No Oculus VR Preview or VR mode fullscreen

ergoproxy · March 2, 2015, 5:27pm

I downloaded 4.7 onto my mac and I now cant seem to play any level in VR mode with my Oculus DK2 by - launching - hitting fullscreen mode. VR preview is also greyed out. Everything was working fine in 4.6 and I’m not sure what to do. I’ve rebooted the mac and still nothing. I saw in another thread someone was able to fix the issue by reinstalling the Oculus drivers but I just wanted to check first this wasn’t a mac issue.

anonymous_user_389e656c · March 8, 2015, 8:47pm

Same problem here, is there a fix?

anonymous_user_43337cb2 · March 9, 2015, 4:19am

VR Preview is greyed out on mine in 4.7 as well. Going to reinstall drivers and see if this fixes it.

anonymous_user_389e656c · March 9, 2015, 2:08pm

Fixed launching the applications fullscreen by removing the preferences for the specific app from the user’s Library folder.

anonymous_user_43337cb2 · March 9, 2015, 11:17pm

Reinstalled runtime and re-updated firmware and the VR Preview is no longer greyed out in 4.7.2. However, FPS in the VR Preview is about half that of a Standalone play, but that’s a separate issue I guess!

wes_h · March 10, 2015, 5:46pm

I too had the VR preview grayed out on first run, even with the latest oculus runtime & sdk installed. Looked at oculus config utility was unresponsive. Happily a simple rebooting of the PC fixed it all up.

I haven’t benchmarked 4.7 Standalone yet, but VR preview for me is surprisingly much smoother/faster for my test scene with higher scalability settings than in 4.6.1 Standalone with lowest settings

anonymous_user_389e656c · March 10, 2015, 11:38pm

Reinstalling the drivers worked for me as concern the VR Preview greyed out, but even if now VR Preview is active, I cannot launch the app because all I got is a black window.
What is the expected setup? Rift in extended mode? Primary display on rift or mac?

patch24 · March 14, 2015, 7:01am

I’m having the same issue on mac. I’m on 10.10.2 Yosemite, 4.7.2 Unreal, latest Oculus runtime, …I’m using the DK1 not DK2. When running the VR Preview all I get is black screen. Stand alone won’t go into stereo mode or respond to HMD rotations.

ergoproxy · March 16, 2015, 3:27pm

I managed to fix the issue by downloading the latest Oculus Runtime & SDK then simply rebooting my Mac.

patch24 · March 17, 2015, 12:55am

Fixed by re-installing Oculus runtime, rebooting and disconnecting my second monitor.

anonymous_user_020e5707 · April 17, 2015, 10:50am

Bump!

Any news on this? Having the same problem, VR Preview is just black. I love Epic and the Unreal Engine and I’m eager to start developing VR content but I feel Mac users are constantly struggling to make things work, which is immensely annoying and a creativity-killer!