Yes! You can control various bahaviours and settings within Pigasus by placing a “settings.cfg” file in the “Pigasus” folder.

By setting various parameters in this config file you can control behaviours such as telling Pigasus to auto start a video upon launch or what Pigasus should do after the headset has been put back on again after it was previously taken off (e.g. start the currently playing video again from start or start from where it last left off when the headset was taken off). If you are using Pigasus for running demos, or something else similar, the ability to change these behaviours in this way will be very useful.

You can download a template “settings.cfg” file here. Additional details as to what you can control via this settings config file is available within the file itself.

Video playback results depend on many factors. These range from device hardware limitations, video encoding, video player decoding limitations etc. Generally speaking, at time of writing, an S7 phone is the most capable of playing back high resolution, high frame rate videos up to 4k at 30fps reliably (most of the time) with Pigasus. Of course, this also depends on other factors such as your local network connection speed, how well your media server can transcode these videos and your video’s encoded bitrate.

If you find your higher resolution/framerate videos stuttering when playing back in Pigasus here are a couple things you can try to help relieve the issue:

• Check your media player’s transcoding settings. If you are direct streaming your videos, perhaps consider transcoding them before streaming. If already transcoding them, see if you have an configuration option to favor playback over quality which may help in giving you a smoother playback experience for the higher resolution/framerate videos.
• You may consider re-encoding your problem videos to a slightly lower resolution, framerate and/or bitrate. You can use a video transcoder software like Handbrake or if you are comfortable with command line, ffmpeg to do this.

Interpupillary distance (IPD) is the distance between the center of the pupils of the two eyes. Your IPD value can effect how comfortably you see stereo within a VR environment. An average IPD for adults is about 64mm.

If you find that you are having eye comfort issues such as issues focusing on stereo video content and images or even within the general VR environment you may have an IPD that is either wider or shorter than the default set IPD (which is 64mm to conform to the average IPD for adults).

If this is the case, you can adjust the IPD within the “Settings” menu which may help your overall eye comfort level.

Yes. Your custom environment must be a “.ovrscene” or “.gltf.ovrscene” file.

Place your .ovrscene file into the “Pigasus/environments” folder (this should be auto created for you already) and the next time you launch Pigasus you will be able to select your custom environment through the environments list when you click on the “Custom Theaters” button in the theater selection menu.

Pigasus also supports custom environments that have been bundled up as an apk for sideloading into the Oculus Quest/Go Home environment. Just place your environment apk into the “Pigasus/environments” folder and Pigasus will take care of the rest. Pigasus will auto delete this apk from the “Pigasus/environments” folder once it has finished extracting the .ovrscene file from it.

The Quest Homes Discord Server has excellent support and guides on how to create custom environments as well as a great list of user made environments; all of which Pigasus supports: https://discord.gg/YfCbdzd6pJ

Please bare in mind Pigasus only needs the .ovrscene file, so there is no need to package up your environment as an apk as per the instructions found on the Discord channel.

Additionally, please take a look at the following Oculus guide on how to create a Theater environment. It is a little outdated but there is some good advice on how to optimally create a custom theater environment. Pigasus supports all tagging and setup guidelines as suggested in that guide:

https://developer.oculus.com/documentation/mobilesdk/1.7/concepts/mobile-movietheater-intro/#mobile-movietheater-intro

To remove a custom environment from Pigasus, simply delete the corresponding “.ovrscene” file from the “Pigasus/environments” folder.

And finally, please be mindful of the size of your custom environment as it may impact overall performance of the app. Your custom environments should be optimized for running in a mobile environment when at all possible.

Of course. In fact we encourage it. We strive to make the best media player for the Oculus Quest, Oculus Go and Gear VR and we can only do that by listening to you, the users.