[SOLVED] SteamVR Home room no longer loads.

[Lone Wolfe (Hoover1979)]

All of a sudden when I put SteamVR on I just get a white empty room with CGI representations of the sensors that are on the wall and the ability to view my motion controllers. Everything else is just an empty white room with blue outlines defining my 2mx2m play space as a cube.

Before I got the Steam VR Home Room the instant I enabled SteamVR, where I could muck about with the Vive, teleport into a garden area, customize the room and garden a bit and launch previous VR titles from a screen on the wall in the room.

I even opted in to the beta version of Steam VR (Not the MacOS ones but the Beta for PC) and nothing has changed. Is there something I must now do to bring up the home room after SteamVR's last update or is there a bug introduced and only Valve can fix it in an update?

How am I supposed to launch a VR title while in VR when all I see is a white empty room?!

Please assist

P.S. another issue I get after the update is after I turn SteamVR off, the sound doesn't return to my speakers anymore. I have to go into windows playback devices and manually set speakers as default to get sound back to my speakers now. The sound used to return to my speakers automatically after quitting SteamVR before the last update.

My PC Specs:

Windows 7 Professional 64bit on Kingston HyperX Fury SSD (120Gb)
ASUS Z97-k Mobo
Pioneer 16x Blu-Ray Burner/Player
Corsair HX850i Platinum Grade 850w PSU
Intel i7-4790k in turbo mode 4.4Ghz
Corsair H115i Liquid CPU Cooler
32Gb Corsair Vengeance pro 2400 DDR3 RAM
XMP Overclocking set in BIOS
8Gb Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming GTX1080 OC PCIe Waterforce GFX Card
latest WHQL Nvidia Display Drivers
Sound Blaster Zx PCIe Sound Card
Logitech Z906 THX Certified 5.1 Surround Speakers and LFE
WD Gold Enterprise class 10Tb DataCenter 7,200RPM HDD
WD 4Tb internal HDD
WD Caviar 1.5Tb Internal HDD
WD Elements 1Tb External USB 3.0 HDD
WD Elements 3Tb External USB 3.0 HDD
ASUS VG278 27" 120Hz 3D Monitor with Nvidia 3D Vision 2 (TM)
AVerMedia Volar Green USB2.0 HDTV Tuner
Microsoft Xbox One S Controller connected via MicroUSB to avoid Win10 requirement
Razer Black Widow Chroma V2 Keyboard
Logitech G502 Proteus Core Gaming Mouse
ASUS PCE-AC68U AC1900 PCIe WiFi Card paired with:
ASUS RT-AC68U AC1900 Dual-Band Router on 5ghz band
Fractal Design XL-R2 Full Tower ATX Chassis
HTC Vive Virtual Reality kit.

[Lone Wolfe (Hoover1979)]

SOLUTION:

It seems that after the update SteamVR Home no longer automatically loads. I have to press the button on the side of my HMD and enter what looks like Big Picture Mode, select VR and launch SteamVR Home from there every time now. Before the SteamVR update SteamVR Home was launching automatically as soon as I turned on SteamVR.

Please Valve add an option to have SteamVR start in SteamVR Home on launch added as an option in settings on the next SteamVR update?