SpringboardVR approach for the upcoming Oculus Quest?

geralexandr

Anyone and especially the Springboard VR team, with the Oculus Quest launch coming very close, do you have any strategy to cover content distribution over that platform? From the arcade owner perspective it is a no-brainer to put something like Oculus Quest on dedicated stations used for 1-2 games exclusively - e.g. BeatSaber station, Superhot Station, etc. Currently, the only problem I envision is the access to commercially licensed content. Hope SpringBoardVR team have an approach to facilitate that?

thevrclub

Good question, though for commercial licensing I bet it's difficult with Facebook not currently providing any official solution for Oculus.

I'd also like to know if Springboard will add support for Pimax (it runs on SteamVR but requires PiTools in addition), I'm expecting my first headset to be delivered sometime next week.

matthew

thevrclub

Pimax should work right away but once you get yours please shoot support a message if you're having issues and we'd be happy to work with you on it!

matthew

We'll be evaluating it and seeing what we can do! It's a bit too early to know right now since there isn't a full development kit or reference hardware available yet. As soon as we have more plans for the Quest we'll be letting everyone know!

geralexandr

matthew

In my limited understanding, in the typical arcade use case (i.e. used for a dedicated on-game station) this becomes more of a legal/negotiation issue than technical. For example, signing an agreement with developer for a monthly payment per station for a game doesn't require actual usage tracker. Probably this can not be done without the Oculus anyway, because they are allowing or disallowing the commercial use.

matthew

geralexandr

It's a bit of both. They don't (currently at least, or the Oculus Go) offer the methods for managing content and tracking content usage to facilitate commercial usage on top of the fact that their licenses don't usually allow commercial usage.