Businesses are increasingly embracing virtual reality as a powerful tool to transform processes, such as marketing, customer services, training and logistics. It opens new possibilities for businesses to market their products and services to the millennial customers, who prefer to look and feel the physical product. Simulation-based training for surgeons in VR headsets allows them to get a hands-on experience to new tools and procedures without actually risking a life.
42Gears recently added remote support, management and lockdown capabilities for Oculus Go and Quest VR headsets. The UEM agent for VR from 42Gears is called SureMDM Nix VR. These functionalities can help IT Pros to easily install 42Gears UEM Nix Agent on the VR devices, convert them into purpose-built devices, deploy useful applications through static and dynamic jobs and transfer files on the device.
NOTE: These steps are for Oculus Android VR Devices (Oculus Go and Oculus Quest).
How to get started?
1. Get the settings file from here.
2. In the xml file, replace the following default values with your own:
- Customer ID will be the Account ID. (For example : Customer ID – 853245)
- Server – suremdm.42gears.com (Console URL to which the devices will be enrolled)
- DeviceName (Unique name for the VR device getting enrolled. This name will be the identity of the device in SureMDM Web Console for the Admin)
- Show Nix – True (To show the online status of SureMDM Nix in the SureMDM NixVR Application)
3. xml file has to be saved in SD Card of the VR device for enrollment. The users must use below-mentioned adb command to transfer NixSettings.xml file on the device SD Card:
adb push
4. Once, the above mentioned steps are completed, you can install SureMDM Nix VR Agent on Oculus VR devices.
NOTE: To learn how to Install ADB on Windows, macOS, and Linux, click here and to learn how to enable ADB (Developer mode) in VR oculus device to transfer Nix agent and nix setting file click here.