I am working on a VR project for the oculus rift, and while everything else works fine with the headset I cannot get audio to play through the rift by default. It works fine if I set the windows audio device to the rift speakers, but otherwise sound just plays through the default speakers.
This is true whether the game is fully built or just run in editor. Am i just missing some obvious editor setting?
Thanks for any help.
Sounds like its working as intended? By default, your PC shouldnt be piping audio to the HMD unless Windows has the HMD set as the desired audio output device. If you leave Windows to ‘default’ audio device, it might not automatically trigger the change to HMD once it’s worn. You could also check in the Oculus app, click ‘Devices’ and then click your HMD to make the right-hand window open, then find options labelled ‘Hear VR audio from computer’ and ‘Hear computer audio in VR’ and toggle/untoggle these as desired.
Right, I understand that. But most oculus specific programs will automatically switch the default playback device to the rift when launched. I guess that’s what I’m trying to replicate.
Hi, I’d like to second this bug.
We recently moved from 4.24 to 4.25.
With 4.24, it worked fine. In editor, you could preview sound assets and they’d play through the default Windows device, but when using the VR Preview, the game audio would automatically play through the headset.
With 4.25, you have to manually tell Windows that VR Preview should play audio through the Rift. It’s awful, because to preview sounds in the editor, you need to switch it back.
It looks like has been fixed in 4.26.
The fix in 4.26 for the oculus audio issue is found here: https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/commit/349842f4e8d39f461ba3610c1dbf1623871e9ec4
This is an issue if you are publishing to the store. Your game will fail VRC.PC.Audio.1 https://developer.oculus.com/resources/vrc-pc-audio-1/ and you will not be able to publish the app.
As of writing this, this is still an issue in epic’s release of 4.26 but we found that upgrading to 4.27 is painless and solves the issue.