SharedSpaces was built by the VR Developer Tools team to demonstrate how you can quickly get people together in VR using the Oculus Social Platform APIs. This version was built for the Unreal Engine using the Photon SDK as the transport layer. Check out this YouTube video showing the demo.
For the original SharedSpaces for UE4, we created a new plugin, Plugin/OculusPlatform, to expose the new OVR Platform APIs that we needed, in particular the group presence ones. Instead of using both the old Oculus OSS and the new plugin, we just moved everything that we needed into the new plugin.
In this update, the plugin has been renamed Plugin/OVRPlatform and now covers all OVR Platform APIs. A key feature of this plugin is that it is codegened, which means that it will be kept in sync with the OVR Platform. That was not possible with the older Oculus OSS, has it required manual adaptation of UE4 OSS to Oculus VR Platform services. We are planning on releasing it as an engine level plugin in the near future.
SharedSpaces is available on the Quest AppLab.
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Details on how to setup the project can be found under Oculus Application Configuration.
- Git LFS is required to access the assets of the project, such as blueprints and materials. Make sure that you have Git LFS installed using the following command.
git lfs install- Clone this repo using the "Code" button above, or this command:
git clone https://github.com/oculus-samples/Unreal-SharedSpaces.git- This project requires the Oculus fork of the UE4.27 game engine that you can find here.
NOTE: access to the Oculus fork requires access to Epic's GitHub. - You need Visual Studio installed to build the engine and the project plugins.
- Open a command prompt, change directory to your Unreal root (see step 3), then run this command:
.\GenerateProjectFiles.bat -Game SharedSpaces -Engine <full path to Unreal-SharedSpaces directory>\SharedSpaces.uproject- Open the
SharedSpaces.slnfile that has been generated in theUnreal-SharedSpacesdirectory. - Set
SharedSpacesas the start-up project andDevelopment Editoras the configuration. - Hit
F5to build and debug the project (and the engine).
Unreal-SharedSpaces is under the license found here.
We distribute the Photon SDK under agreement with Photon. You will find their license here.