How to use Oculus Rooms

Virtual reality is great to play on your own but some games are better with friends. Oculus Rooms allows you to easily launch multiplayer games with members of a party and also lets you share experiences directly in a customizable virtual room.

You can pick photos to adorn the room, customize the layout and background, and even change how quickly the sky changes from dawn to dusk. Here's how to get started and what you can do with the app.

Getting into your Oculus Room

Setup and open your Samsung Gear VR
Look to the right and select party under the facebook menu
Select take a look at Oculus Rooms
You'll get a prompt telling you to use headphones if you don't have any plugged in
Once the room has loaded you'll get a prompt to invite friends

Customizing your room

Just like with a real house, you'll want to customize your room before inviting any friends over. There are four ways to customize your room. From the Oculus Rooms main menu select "Customize your room" and then select one of the following options:

Photos

Select "choose which photos to display in the room"
Select choose on any of the three photos
Select where to choose photos from, these can be a set of Oculus pictures or any of your Facebook photos
Repeat steps 1-3 for all three photos in your Oculus Room

Room Layout

Select "change the wall, floor and other details in the room
Select the top box on the right to edit your walls
Pick a wall material
Select the middle box on the right to edit your materials color
Pick a material with the color selector
Select the bottom box on the right to edit your floor
Pick a floor material

Time of Day

Select "choose the time and length of day in the room
Select one of the four times of day
Use the snail and lightning icons to edit how quickly the room changes between times of day

Sky

Select "choose a different sky for the room"
Select one of three sky options

Customizing your avatar

You can also make sure that your avatar represents you well before having any guests over.

Select customize your avatar
Select hair, glasses, facial hair, face shape, clothes or color
Cycle through options using the arrow icons
Hit apply to save changes

Adding a friend to the party

With your room setup, you're ready to have friends over.

Select invite friends, this will take you to your Gear VR control center
Look to the right and scroll through your friends
Add a friend to the party by selecting the icon with a phone and plus symbol then hitting confirm

Alternatively, you can follow these steps:

Select the icon with three people within your Oculus Rooms home screen
Select invite friend
Repeat steps of scrolling through friends and adding them as seen above

Once you have people in you're party you're ready to share your VR experience. There are many things you can share within the room such as music and videos but you also can launch other apps from your room.

Playing music

Select Music on the Oculus Rooms home menu
Scroll through available genres using the arrow on the right
Select a genre
Scroll through the specific stations within a genre using the arrow on the right and select a station

Launching external apps and games

Select app launcher
Scroll through your available games or apps
Hover over the app's icon to show a choose option and select choose
You can then launch an app together if you have others in your party

Watching TV

Select TV
Scroll through video types such as 360 videos or categories using the arrow on the right
Select a specific photo or video within the category
Select play now or add to the playlist to watch later

Gaming within rooms

Select games table
Choose between pairs, lights, words, trivia, or chess

Important note: Instead of navigating using the home menu you can point your remote at items such as the TV or games table within your room.

And that's it! You're all customized and ready to play with your friends inside of Oculus Rooms.