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Let's Talk: Shadow VR Early Access

Welcome to the Shadow VR Early Access section of the forum. Learn more about the App, how to use it and contribute to its development.

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Malte from Shadow
Malte from ShadowFormer Community Manager
published in Let's Talk: Shadow VR Early Access

Pimp your Oculus Quest 2 Headset Shadow StyleNews

Dear #TeamShadow,We are interrupting this program with our very own r/wheredidthesodago-esque, completely hand-crafted advertisement. So please stand by as we present our newest community-made Oculus Quest 2 fashion to all of you! <advertisement>Hey you!Don’t you just hate it when you look like a fool to your peers when playing your favorite VR games on your Oculus Quest 2, because you missed Shadow’s latest fashion advice for the avid VR-gamer? 🙄 We say: No more! ❌❌❌It’s time to shine like the diamond that you are when jumping around in your pyjamas, fighting off virtual bad guys. 👍 Introducing...The Shattering Shadow 💥Shattering Shadow is the choice for gamers that prefer a dark and gritty look displaying the true earth-shattering power of gaming in the cloud. This subtle, yet powerful design will make you stand-out among your friends.And that’s a Shadow promise! The Headcrab Fans of post-apocalyptic games will find that The Headcrab will not only give you that additional ed

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Anonymous
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Shadow VR alpha // News from November the 5th! (05/11 -11/05)

Hello everyone (and a happy belated 🎃Halloween), This is Raphaël, your product manager for the Shadow App for Oculus Quest - aka Shadow VR (Alpha) -. It’s been a bit more than a week since the app was released in its Alpha state and I wanted to thank you all for trying it out. It’s given us some great insights so far, and it’s going to help us even more moving forward.I was happily surprised to see more than 1,200 of you fine folks downloaded the app in the first week. Cheers!Thanks to your help, we've already confirmed and identified root causes for common blockers such as:  being stuck on “starting Shadow VR” landing on a zoomed-in 2D desktop environment  But also other major issues like: the overall lack of fluidity of the head movement  the update time when changing devices  So thank you to all you stubborn people out there who keep trying to help us find these issues! :) We are also happy to see that most of your positive feedback mentions good hand tracking and latency, as w

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1 year ago
Malte from Shadow
Malte from ShadowFormer Community Manager
published in Let's Talk: Shadow VR Early Access

💼The Shadow VR Alpha TeamInterview

This is a place where all team members can introduce themselves. Please feel free to drop a line about yourself. We’d love to know who  is working on this Alpha with us 😊 Here is a help to get your introduction started 🧬The Format: Name:Gamer Handle / Nickname: First Game ever played:Game with the most hours played:Has a Shadow since: I’m using VR to/for:I’m excited about a Shadow VR because:

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2 years ago
Malte from Shadow
Malte from ShadowFormer Community Manager
published in Let's Talk: Shadow VR Early Access

Shadow and the Oculus Quest StoreNews

Hey dear friends of VR,In the first week of March, Facebook made some changes to their Quest Virtual Reality Check (VRC) Guidelines that affect the future of the Shadow VR App.They are just guidelines you say? Well sadly, unlike the parley, those ‘VRC’ Guidelines are actual rules that should be followed if you want to publish an app in Facebook’s Oculus Quest Store and App Lab.  The changesAmongst the changes of the guidelines are changes to the aspect of streaming VR content to the Oculus Quest 1, as well as Oculus Quest 2 which have the biggest impact on the rollout plan and accessibility of the Shadow App. Quote: “Applications that stream interactive, immersive VR content may only do so from a local PC that the customer has physical access to.”This means that Shadow won’t be able to publish the Shadow VR App on the Oculus Quest Store or the App Lab for as long as the guidelines are in place and formulated as they are.  What now?Nothing will change for now.We will of course continue

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Malte from Shadow
2 years ago
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NyxScout
asked in Let's Talk: Shadow VR Early Access

Steam Vr wont detect my headset

Even though im on my Oculus headset running the 2d desktop, whenever i switch to vr it brings me right back to the hone screen, and when i go to the desktop to see what happened stean vr says it cant detect my headset, it was just working yesterday, I dont know how to fix it, can soneone help me and give me a dumbed down step by step description on how to fix it? Im slow at understanding

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desktopdougTraveler
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Shadow VR 90HZ / 120HZ Support

Hi,I’m currently testing the Shadow VR Beta App and have been able to successfully launch and play Half-Life Alyx, and so far its pretty good.Really keen to push this further and test 90HZ, or even 120HZ.Any idea if this is coming any time soon?ThanksDoug

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1 month ago
wurtist22
wurtist22Explorer
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Shadow VR "login failed"

Hi folks:Like many others, I can login to regular Shadow just fine. But when I try to login to SHADOW VR on my headset, it always says LOGIN FAILED. I’m *positive* I’m typing in the correct username and password.The only solution I’ve seen posted here is “hit the login button multiple times”.  Tried that too.Help!-Kurt

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2 months ago
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KhlaeraScout
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Shadow VR just does nothing and just goes back to home almost immediately.

I just bought my quests 2 a few days ago and just subscribed to shadow as well. I’ve followed the following instructions exactly.-Installed Shadow VR from Sidequest on my Oculus quest-Downloaded Steam and installed SteamVR on my Shadow-Launched SteamVR on my Shadow from my PC and went through all potential updates and pop ups.-Set Steam to launch with Windows / remember password-Launched the Shadow VR (alpha) app from the unknown sources app of my Oculus Quest-Entered me Shadow login credentials (code) and authenticated my Headset as a Shadow device-Clicked Start Shadow VR button.Then it loads for about 5 seconds… then goes back to the shadowvr home screen. Steam VR does not load. I click it again it it just keeps doing the same thing.. Basically a failure loop. If i go into 2d view it tells me to put my headset on. It actually seems to be detecting my headset, just not that it is on.I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling everything and I get the same issue.The strange thing is if I

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4 months ago
Yonkuo
YonkuoScout
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shadow vr lagging

everytime i start shadow vr my wifi speed goes down like 50% and when i do the shadow test it says 30mb per second instead of 70 it normally has. and its lagging alot like a 20 sec delay to anything i do it used to work fine until 2 days ago i got mayor lagging issues

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Yonkuo
5 months ago
Yonkuo
YonkuoScout
asked in Let's Talk: Shadow VR Early Access

Shadow vr mayor issues

so i have been using shadow vr for a few months no problem.but sometimes when i start it my download speeds goes way downwards but that isnt the main issue thats just a lil annoying. the main issue here is when i try to start shadow vr it says starting steam vr then starting vr services and then its stuck on that for like 30 mins and then it goes back to the start shadow menu or it says oops something went wrong eroor R 505.can i get some help?????

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Yonkuo
5 months ago
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MastrolindoAdventurer
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Please improve performance

Hello,It’s been more than 1,5 year that I got my Oculus Quest 2 Headset.I tried the vr app lot of time ago both official and beta and performance was a total disaster.Eample:SteamVR→ Even in the main menù with no game running, there was a really annoying lag and that is one of the less intense network-demanding parts.In game for example SuperHot VR, except for the big lag, grabbing and controls didn’t work right. After this first attemp, I bought Virtual Desktop, which seems the solution everyone recommends, and it actually give a really smooth experience, except for some occasional connection drop. Video is smooth and I can play likely realtime.I didn​​​​​​​’t gave up on the shadow app, and each 2-3 months I kept coming back to it.But beside some minor changes in options and so, nothing really changed in terms of performance. It’s still terrible and unplayable and far from its competitors.Maybe you should have a talk with Virtual Desktop team and integrate their video codec or technol

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6 months ago
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YolScout
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Tunelling USB devices to Shadow VR ?

Hello fellow ShadowVRers !Here is the situation : I’ve got Shadow VR working with my Quest 2, now I’d like to be able to play Elite Dangerous … the thing is I need my HOTAS controller in Shadow VR.First thing I tried was to connect through my local PC with the standard Shadow app in order to get the USB forwarding, but of course only one client connexion is allowed, so obviously when I tried to connect through Shadow VR I got kicked out from the PC app and lost USB forwarding.Next I figured I could manually forward some USB devices to my Shadow using some kind of software (which one ?), so I did setup a VPN client to connect my Shadow PC to my local network. Stupid me. Note for later: never *ever* install a Wireguard client on Shadow PC, now I’ve lost connexion and I need to reset to factory settings. Nevertheless maybe a solution using SSH forwarding.So here is my question : is there (or will there be) some standard easy way I did not think of to connect local USB devices to the Shado

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8 months ago
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GrokkerExplorer
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Roblox VR on Shadow VR?

I have everything working on an iMac AIR.  Shadow VR is up and running.   My son really wants to play Roblox VR.   What are my next steps? 

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8 months ago
TimothyMICCY
TimothyMICCYTraveler
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About Vd.... ( is it worth it?!? ) ( bugs on vr )

Short answer yes. Long answer depends. Its a decision between how much latency you have, if its under 35 use Usb forwarding feature on your oculus If not and you cant fix any bugs on shadow vr use Vd

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TimothyMICCY
9 months ago
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SicariusRepoExplorer
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Controller in the wrong location

When I play phasmophobia using the ShadowVR app my controllers are near my feet and I can't change their position, only their rotation. When I press the menu button on the oculus it shows the controllers are in the correct position, but the game won't accept it. When I tried this game on virtual desktop I didn't have this issue but virtual desktop has proven to be unreliable when connecting to a pc so I would like to be able to do it through shadowVR. Has anyone else had this issue or know of a fix for it?

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TimothyMICCY
9 months ago
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KylesterWARExplorer
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GAMEPAD not supported OCULUS QUEST 2 VR

Bought Shadow Subscription to play Oculus Quest 2 VR,,, Steam VR games... to find I cannot play racing games... because GAMEPAD is not supported !!. They tell you, subscribe to Shadow and you will have use of a full GAMING PC and be able to play all the games you own on Steam VR through your Oculus Quest 2... Well, I cannot,,, its not true. I have three times now asked them for help with this,,, but they don't respond, just ignore me... They need to fix this issue.. I only just subscribed a few days ago,, but going to unsubscribe... as Shadow does not support GAMEPAD in Oculus Quest 2 VR ! and its very very very bad that they just ignore me about this...

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WeowExplorer
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boneworks vr

When I start boneworks I can’t do anything, my hands are open and even if I try to change binding it doesn’t do anything but blades and sorcery works fine.

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9 months ago
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AbizagaScout
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Another game broke.

So I used to use this app to play Iron Rebellion, which used to function properly. A little bit ago I loaded up this app for the first time in a while only to find out when I play Iron Rebellion, the virtual in game hands are stuck in a position under the menu options and I can't lift them, making it so I can't select menu options. This game USED to work but now it broke for no reason and I have to say I'm EXTREMELY DISSAPPOINTED as now I don't know what games of mine may just stop working tomorrow. :/

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TimothyMICCY
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Lucas ThinExplorer
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How do you fix the controller binding in SteamVR Games like Boneworks and Skyrim?

So I’ve tried to play SkyrimVR and Boneworks on ShadowVR. Initially thought it might have been the Skyrim  or connection issue since my controllers kept working weirdly.But today I downloaded boneworks and the controllers completely don’t work. Tried to use a different controller binding for the game as how others fixed their controllers on plutosphere but still nothing. The controllers are stuck and also my field of view is terribly limited. When I move my head around rapidly, I could see the black spots at the corner of my eye. Not sure if anyone has these issues as well. Quite disappointed as I had high hopes. I’ll be trying with VD and shadow PC next time but if anyone know how to fix this, it would be great.

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TimothyMICCY
9 months ago
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LiquifyExplorer
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Shadow VR Not Working

Hello, so I tried playing shadow vr today and it worked but I realized I was on the wrong steam account so I switched the steam account and clicked on start steam vr again and it got hung on Starting Steam VR Services and just sat there. I dont know what to do I have been troubleshooting for hours.

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TimothyMICCY
9 months ago
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PeachyExplorer
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thank you devs

Thank you devs for fixing the no audio thing. I had to use oculus audio drivers to hear things but it downgrades the performance 

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1 year ago
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mzg5150Explorer
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Problem

i. download shadow VR from sidequest but when i check if it downloaded it doesn't work Tried restarting both my headset and pc and sidequest shows instal' completed but nothing downloads

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1 year ago
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VRCaviarExplorer
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ShadowVR Beta version expired

Been using the iOS verson of the beta app for some time now, yet yesterday it said the app expired. Is the Beta version over for the iOS or is my TestFlight access expired?

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michaelcaseExplorer
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Shadow does not show wifi, or Quest 2 connection on usb running on a mac

no Wifi on shadow therefore no side quest connection to Quest 2. No USB connection to quest 2 recognized via USB. No assistance from support in over a week. Unfortunate and frustrating.Running MAC Catalina  ×   

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1 year ago
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aclark20Explorer
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ShadowVR Controller Help

Hi All, I’m relatively new to Shadow VR + Quest 2-- I've got my setup working well with a few things, like HL: Alyx and Google Earth. I've been trying to make Elite Dangerous work, but anything I try I get zero control response from the controllers. The only thing I can do is bring up the SteamVR menu and quit. It starts up with a regular menu, but I can’t select anything or do anything. I got it in game once by starting in 2d and switching to VR, but again, zero control response through the touch controllers. Also worth noting that I get similar (lack of) response using the ShadowVR app and Virtual Desktop, despite a few attempts at restarting and installing everything from scratch.

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