A guide on installing, running and adding your own content to the Igloo Showroom system.
Prerequisites for Headset Use
You should already have either an Oculus Rift
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, HTC Vive, or Valve Index headset. If you are using an Oculus Quest 2, with Airlink, please follow the instructions HERE
If you have never used your headset before, please take the time to run through the headset setup procedure, including any additional tutorials that begin on startup.
You should have your headset plugged in and initialized, so Steam VR is running, and Oculus Home is running for Oculus users.
Initial Setup
Unzip the IglooShowroom.zip folder structure to somewhere accessible, like your desktop.
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You can also use the control app to:
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Move to the Igloo/Software/IglooVirtual 3.xx folder, and launch Igloo Showroom 3.xx.exe
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Whilst in this folder, you can also access the Igloo Showroom 3.xx_Data folder which contains the StreamingAssets folder where there is also a folder named IglooTextures, this is where you should place any textures that you would like to see displayed on the igloo structures.
Please overwrite the current texture, to see your texture within igloo virtual.
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Run the IglooShowroomSetup.exe file, and follow through the installation wizard.
Half way through the installation, the system will start installing a program called Igloo Warper, and then Igloo Playback both are required to view your own content. Follow these installation wizards too.
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4. Once the installation has completed. Please run the Igloo Showroom, Igloo Warper, and Igloo Playback applications.
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Igloo Warper will look like the picture below,
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If your warper does not look like this, please follow the below instructions.
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Preparing the Warper
To view any of your own content, it will need to be placed in a specific folder for the warper to see it.
Installing the warper should have created this folder for you, however if it has not please make sure you have the following folder structure on your C:/ drive.
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Place all of your 360 movies and Panoramas in this content folder, and the Igloo Warper will pick them up and be able to play them.
To play content in the igloo warper, click Media Files from the GUI, and then select the content you wish to play. It will autoplay when selected, and can be controlled by the options on the Play dropdown menu. .png?version=1&modificationDate=1553076918642&cacheVersion=1&api=v2&height=250)
Activate Spout Output
To ensure that Igloo Virtual can see the warper, we need to activate the Spout Sender within the Warper GUI. Ensure that your spout sender is active, buy clicking Output > Senders > Spout, and checking it so it's green. When active it should look like the picture below.
You are now ready to use Igloo Showroom, you can now put on your HMD.