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.
We updated the project to UE5.3.
We updated the MetaXRPlatform plugin to SDK v59.
We updated the settings for UE5.2.
We updated the OVRPlatform plugin to use the new MetaXRPlatform plugin found here. We updated to SDK v56.
We have added the the ability to handle User Reporting. This allow users to notify the developer about conduct within the application that does not adhere to the Code of Conduct in Virtual Experiences.
We have added a demo for the App to App Travel platform feature.
For that purpose we added a door that will launch another of our showcase Ultimate Glove Ball joining directly in an arena of the same session, making it so that every user in the same lobby can join the same arena. Implementation details can be found here.
We have added a demo of the new Blocked Users flows presented at Connect 2022.
For that purpose, pulling the controller trigger no longer changes your robot color, but instead starts the block/unblock flow with the character in front of you (if any). You can still change your robot color by stepping on the paint shop plate in the lobby.
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 UE5.3 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.
The Oculus License applies to the SDK and supporting material.
The MIT license applies to only certain, clearly marked documents. If an individual file does not indicate which license it is subject to, then the Oculus License applies.
We distribute the Photon SDK under agreement with Photon. You will find their license here.