There would be a way to meet randomly generated 'strangers' who you can choose to start communication with, then you can invite them round and grant them permission to come and go when they please. (obviously you can revoke this if they annoy you).

It would make your home less lonley as when you drop in, you'll see your companion(s) hanging out playing with your toys and gadgets, stairing at the lovely views and potentially say hello to you and have some basic conversation:

"Oh, I see you have <insert game name here>, I've always wanted to play that!"

"The view from here is amazing, I wish my place was as nice as this"

"I'd love to hone my shooting skills. I just need a target range..."

I want a list of the unlockable items, but damned if I can find one.

As well, after what seemed to be an eternity, I was blessed with new boxes yesterday. Yay! A new item. A painting. Yet another new boringly, ridiculous painting appeared. Twice. Yes, twice. Two boxes in a frikkin row! Same item! Scandalous.

As always, when the cybergawds deem me worthy and bestow gifts upon thee, I close my eyes when I drop my magical gift box. It certainly adds a tingle to the drama and pathos. When I open my eyes, I'm either overjoyed or I sigh and say, "That! Again!" Usually, it's the latter. I have loads of items I'll never use.

Here's a thought; let us decide if we want to accept or reject items. If you reject an item, it presents you with a new choice. Who the frig wants multiples of an item, furniture, painting or whatever that will never get used? Hands?

At least I got the little fairy dude in the tree. He's so cute. I hate cute. Thankfully, I love tormenting cute.

Anyway, yes, I have Googled, gargled and sacrificed the obligatory goat trying to find a list of unlockables. Nothing. Nada. Alas, it appears my simple question is yet another example of ddd4DD (devs denying data for Duncan Disorderly). This is perturbing. Why the big secret? WTF?!

Why doth thou torture thee thusly Oculus? Thou hast forceth thee to flourish thy composition in a style akin to the Bard. Although, this compulsion is a merry companion when compared to thine previous ailment. OCSWQ (Obsessive compulsive Star Wars quoting). Praise be, it has been cured. "These be not the droids, thou art searching for."

Good morrow to thee.

I built a keyboard mapping to make all keystrokes on my QWERTY keyboard available as macros on my Touch controllers, but I can't run any custom input handlers for Touch during Oculus Dash because Dash overrides them all.

Here's my macro app (Unity) on Github: https://github.com/ajcampbell1333/DOFSCII

I built a clone directly via the OpenVR api too, but Dash overrides all input from that one as well.

If we can't have custom input handlers running in the background, we at least need keyboard macros. Dash is pretty useless if we can't type while we're standing in the middle of the room. Digital QWERTY keyboards are awful productivity-wise, and Dash is an obvious next step for VR productivity.

Dash without a fast typing solution is like cereal with no milk. It looks delicious, but we can't eat it until we get the milk.

I just noticed last night when I went through to change the "StoreAssets" for a few of my Steam Games and the Doom 3 BFG Mod that they do not show right in the new 2.0 home desktop app.

The "coverlandscapeimage.png" doesn't seem to be used it seems to use one of the square images as it is zoomed in ie the top edge of DOOM is cut off as well as the Project Cars logo the top of the silhouettes head gets cut off. After poking around in the other asset folders for Oculus store games they all seems to have a "coverlandscapeimagelarge.png" now but adding a image with the same name doesn't fix it because when I check an Unknown Source games Manifest "*asset.json" file they have no reference for a "coverlandscapeimage_large.png" at all and there for will not load the added image that should allow it to display properly.

• When typing using your keyboard, the virtual keyboard should light up each key as you hit them whilst in the Oculus desktop mode. This would allow you to visually see your hand positioning as you type without the touch controllers. This would increase immersion in a non-touch way and build on something every user of VR also has, a keyboard. You wouldn't need to take off your rift to use your keyboard anymore with this approach. Let's face it; typing with the touch controllers on a virtual keyboard; though extremely cool, is not very efficient or practical when you will most likely have a keyboard right in front of you.

• Add a mouse overlay when in desktop mode. Currently you cannot see the mouse. The only way to functionally use the desktop app is by pointing with the touch controller. Though again; extremely cool, leaving the mouse cursor on screen can't be too hard to integrate for the applications it would provide.

A friend of mine who is on the fence for buying the Rift/touch, tried out the desktop app in rift core 2.0 and loved the fact that I could play WoW on a gigantic curved VR monitor. He was crazy excited at the possibility of that(he currently has a 3 monitor setup) and was absolutely taken aback by this development. He stated that he would drop everything and buy a rift/touch kit just for core 2.0 IF a mouse overlay was added to the desktop app.

It is my belief that as PC users, basic keyboard and mouse functionality should definitely be integrated. This would also revolutionize how people play non VR content within VR, maximizing the bang for your buck when purchasing the rift/touch combo. Instead of buying that $1000 curved 32" gaming monitor, you can instead buy a $500 Rift/touch combo, get VR functionality and an awesome Oculus virtual curved monitor for your non-vr activities... So many possibilities! You practically wouldn't remove the rift when using your computer with proper keyboard and mouse implementation. Then when you want to play a VR game grab your touch controllers, push your chair out of the way and giver ****.

I understand the intent is to be more touch integrated... to have an exclusive experience, but everyone has a keyboard and mouse/touchpad. Using the tools we have invested in outside of the rift to the rifts betterment seems like a more solid game plan going forward for Oculus.

• Give the option to individually disable sound elements when in the Oculus home. I can hear it whilst watching youtube videos which isnt really that bad, it is easily drowned out. Personally I think it would be a nice feature to have added.

That being said I now watch youtube and most of my shows using the Oculus Desktop App. Thank you for an excellent product and keep up the awesome developments. I'm loving VR even more thanks to you guys!

used to be i ran new oculus home it all worked fine until i touched the desktop icon on dash, only then would it black screen my pc ,its instant now as soon as click new home beta it restarts oculus and black screens straight away no need to touch dash beacuse nothing works at all now tried restarts finally unplug hmd restart oculus ooo now it actually opens reset to original home plug in hmd and it works again
recently reinstalled and download games again with all the errors in riftcore 2.0 Im running 17 4790 16 gb 1600mHz ram gtx 1080 which has only one hdmi out so yes i am using an adpter on the dvi out for my LG uhdtv and yes i looked at the dated info in riftcore issues turned off CPU onboard graphics updated all drivers and open multiple tickets with no joy or fix only the need to retype and describe my problem over and over no contrary to the recent oculus bog post NO it is not working for everyone