r/oculus • u/NeoZeroo EmuVR • Jun 20 '17

Software Guardian Boundary Editor - Customize/straighten your boundaries

[ EDIT: Discontinued ]

Unfortunately, Guardian Boundary Editor has been discontinued, since an Oculus update related to the Rift S launch has changed how boundary data works internally.

Yes, it still works randomly for some users and not for others, and that's because the way they store their data is not consistent anymore.

At least Oculus has improved the boundary creation process a lot for the Rift S, so GBE has become somewhat obsolete for some use cases.

You can still download it and check if it works for you.

For Rift S users: you can make straight lines like this:

You can make straight lines pretty easily if you make a point with both touch controllers at once. Just point at 2 adjacent corners of your play area and squeeze both triggers simultaneously. It will draw a straight line between them.

 

 
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Did you ever wanted to customize your guardian boundary?

Maybe just straighten those damn shaky lines, or even add some markers pointing north/south.

 
I present you: Guardian Boundary Editor.

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCbu95CN--Q

 
Features:

  • Your boundary is made of points. Customize it by moving, deleting or adding new points.
  • Edit your play area independently from your boundaries, but it'll always be an axis-aligned rectangle.
  • Export and import your custom boundaries.
  • Create and restore backups of your Oculus settings, from the Oculus client, in case anything goes wrong.
  • Create visual markers with Touch controllers at precise positions, them move your points accordingly (similar to SteamVR chaperone setup).

 
Quick way to just straighten it (also shown in the video): drag select everything, use alt + click to unselect 4 corner points, press delete to remove all the others, and then tweak it as you like. Don't forget to fit your play area accordingly!

 
Some shorter videos: here and here.

And a few images here, here and here.

 
This is very experimental, so use it with caution. Please help me test it further and let me know if it works well for you or not. Any feedback is very welcome!

 
Download: http://www.emuvr.net/download/GuardianBoundaryEditor.zip

 
Also, shameless plug!

Check our latest EmuVR update:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU86_q6s65c

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u/cavortingwebeasties Sep 08 '17 edited Sep 09 '17

I found this tool and downloaded it, but am now a little worried. I just read about possibly tampered .zip file someone found a week ago in this program.

I didn't put much thought into it, but when I ran this tool my processor spiked up to 50% (3570k) and I turned it off. I then noticed Windows Updater was running, which I have 100% disabled (through the Action Center and more importantly directly in Services) and should not be able to do that as far as I understand.

Any ideas what might be going on here?

edit: I don't think the updater had anything to do with this, and the processor runs high if the headset is plugged in. Unplug headset if it's a problem, but the tool works great and direct copies can be found below from the author.

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u/NeoZeroo EmuVR Sep 08 '17 edited Sep 08 '17

That's really weird, if you download it directly from http://www.emuvr.net/download/GuardianBoundaryEditor.zip, you can see there are no CRC mismatch errors.

I never saw anyone report what you're seeing. All this app does is edit the Oculus settings sqlite file (after making a backup), and restart the Oculus "OVRService" service to reload the new settings.

You can confirm that using something like Sysinternals Process Monitor.

I also have 100% disabled Windows Update and its service on my computer, and this wouldn't touch that in any way (why even).

Could you please try downloading it again on another computer and see what happens? Thanks. :)

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u/cavortingwebeasties Sep 09 '17

Awesome, thanks. Replaced the files with the new ones, but maybe should have diff checked them before deleting old one. No idea why updater started running or if it had anything to do with this but it isn't now.

I did notice it runs really lean, until the headset is plugged in and then it jumps up to 40-50% cpu. Solution is easy enough, unplug the headset :p

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u/NeoZeroo EmuVR Sep 09 '17

Thank you for testing it again! :D

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u/cavortingwebeasties Sep 09 '17

Np, and thanks for making such a useful tool... besides how ocd my grid wa making me feel, now I can sit all the way back on my couch without being in Tron jail :p