Oculus Rift without oculus?

[Kobs]

Is it possible to bypass Oculus all together and only deal with Steam for games?

My Oculus app does not open anymore, it worked fine yesterday but what ever I do this morning all I get is the black square with the oculus logo in it. I know everything works hardware wise, it was yesterday when I turned my computer off.
So is there any way that I wouldn't have to deal with Oculus anymore?

[BOLL]

As far as I know, no, the Rift depends on Oculus Home and the runtime that comes with it to drive the headset at all. What SteamVR does is act like an Oculus application and pipes everything that the Oculus runtime expects to it. So you'd need the Oculus application to use the Rift with anything, although there might exist standalone runtimes for enterprise I guess.

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[Amylion]

No. Mr. Zuckerberg still thinks that your hardware and all your data belong to him. :D

[HaywirePhoenix]

As far as I know, the rift depends on the oculus runtime. You may have to reinstall the oculus software.

If you can get it working, the best you can do is prevent the Home part from running to save a bit of memory.

Oculus App > Settings > General > (uncheck) Automatically launch oculus home

You can take it one step further and do Oculus Homeless

https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/8uf1sm/oculushomeless_use_dash_without_home_20/

This prevents home from starting up, removes the humming music, and lets you set a background colour.
I also deleted all the white textures and grid background so it's completely black on startup (much nicer on the eyes at night).

If you're looking for a performance boost and a more native experience, you can do the opposite of what you wanted and run steam games natively without steamvr. This would prevent double-warping and increase performance by a lot (if they haven't addressed that yet). When the game loads or hangs you just get the oculus sand timer in the corner instead of a face full of your steam vr environment.

https://gitlab.com/znixian/OpenOVR/blob/master/README.md

Just install that and it will autolaunch steam games with opencomposite rather than steamvr.

Hope this helps!

[Shane]

Originally posted by Amylion:

No. Mr. Zuckerberg still thinks that your hardware and all your data belong to him. :D

only idiots believe in privacy, no matter how much i agree with the sentiment