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Alan Mattanó
Courses Plus Student 12,188 PointsWhat is intended for "run times installed" and what to do?
In video: VR-development [ @ 1:55] What is intended for "run times installed" for whatever headset you might be using ? What to do: Is "run times" a (headset) driver to be installed into the OS or is a software to be installed into Unity engine?
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Nick Pettit
Treehouse TeacherHi Alan Mattanó,
In order to use a VR headset such as the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, you need to have the proper software installed (or "runtime") so that your operating system can interface with the hardware.
In the case of the Oculus Rift, you need to have their runtime installed from their setup page before you can use it. https://www.oculus.com/en-us/setup/
In addition, you also need to build Unity games using the Oculus SDK. This is usually included with Unity and you shouldn't have to do anything but check the "Virtual Reality Supported" checkbox, but because the consumer version of the Oculus Rift is still so new, Unity hasn't been able to release a patch yet to support the latest Oculus SDK (version 1.3) - Instead, you'll need to follow these instructions from Oculus to build games in Unity: https://developer.oculus.com/downloads/game-engines/1.3.0/OVRPlugin_for_Unity_5/ - Again, this step is only a temporary measure and shouldn't be the case within a month of this post or so.