Customise your Home Room

Customising your Home Room is simple and fun

Your Home Room could probably do with some customisation. It's easy, simple and fun. Just drag-n-drop or upload photos and videos to the various slots in your Home Room. You can do this in-app, but that doesn't save your changes (yet). To make permanent changes to your Home Room, you will need to access your Home Room on your Metaverse web site.

Below is a helpful list of the best file formats and images / video sizes that are best suited for our standard environments. With this you'll be able to create amazing Metaverses all on your own.

Standard Art Formats for your Home Metaverse

To customise your Metaverse we recommend you prepare images and videos using the following file formats, dimensions and sizes:

  • 16:9 TV Images [e.g. 1920 x 1080]

  • 16:9 Videos [no more than two]

  • 1:1 Door Images [e.g. 1024 x 1024]

Images: We recommend using .JPG & .PNG file formats.

Videos: We support up to two videos per room / location. Currently only Vimeo Pro videos are supported. To access these, use the "Browse Content" feature and ensure that your Vimeo Pro account has been linked to your profile on the "Drives" page.

Other: We go into more detail on Door Links, App Links, & common Multiverse Destinations as well as specifics on image files and their safe zones at the bottom of this page.

TIP: If you have linked your Google Drive and Vimeo Pro accounts to your Multiverse account, you will be able to access images from Google Drive and videos from Vimeo directly in the website for customising your Metaverse.

Your Home Metaverse

When you've first created your Metaverse at Multiverse.ltd you'll find yourself with a template that needs to be filled out. The website will look something like this when you've started customing it:

These next steps, will help you customise your Home Room by uploading content directly via the website.

Your Home Metaverse Icon

The first thing you'll want to do is update your Metaverse icon. This icon is represented by the little circle in your metaverse Home Page.

Clicking on the camera icon will allow you to upload an image to replace the default text that is there. We recommend you upload a fun picture of yourself or your family here.

Icon: A Square Image

We recommend using a square .JPG or .PNG image that is at least 512 x 512 pixels in size. Other recommended sizes include: 1024 x 1024 / 2048 x 2048

Your Home Metaverse Banner

The Banner image is the image that sits above your Metaverse icon, and helps you differentiate your different Metaverses.

NOTE: This banner is *not* used in the app at this time. It is only used on the website.

Banner Image

We recommend using a .JPG or .PNG image - don't worry about making it the right size, whatever image you upload will crop to fit. If you want to be exact, then use an image that is 4:1 (e.g. 2400 x 600 pixels) in size.

You've set up the basics already. You can now "Launch in VR", to view your Home Room in VR
or continue to customise it...

Your Home Room Location

You are now ready to move on to your Home Metaverse locations - you'll probably just have one to start with. It can be found at the bottom of your Home Metaverse's Home Page.

Click on your Home Room to customise it.

Customising your Home

You are now ready to customise your Locations. For this you will want to have the following standard assets ready to use:

  • One Square Icon - 1:1 [e.g. 512 x 512]

  • One Banner Image - 4:1 [e.g. 2400 x 600]

  • Multiple TV Images - 16:9 [e.g. 1920 x 1080]

  • Various Videos - 16:9 [no more than two per room/location]

  • A Door Image - 1:1 [e.g. 1024 x 1024]

Customising locations is simple, easy and fun. Once you have finished customising your location you can always "Launch in VR" to view your customised Metaverse.

TIP: It's possible to use photos taken inside Multiverse in these content slots - you can simply "Browse Content" to access your Photos / Google Drive and Vimeo Pro videos. Photos taken inside Multiverse are great for location icons, door images and promo stands.

Doors & Door Links

One of the most powerful features of your Metaverse is the ability to link rooms / locations with each other.

There are various options for what your doors can do. We'll go into them here:

  • Location: This drop-down list lets you specify a door going to location within your own Metaverse.

  • Oculus Browser URL: Putting a regular web-page URL in here will ensure that the door opens up the Oculus Browser(!) to that URL and let you browse a website. A truly versatile feature.

  • Oculus App Launch: This powerful feature lets you link directly to another game or app on the Oculus App Store. As long as you know the App ID you can link directly to it from Multiverse - it can even be an App Lab Game or App!

  • Locked: This feature locks the door, especially useful if you don't need to use the door.

  • Metaverse URL: This is our most powerful door feature, and really lets you create a Metaverse. This will let you link to any other Metaverse location throughout the entire Multiverse!

Examples of commonly used Metaverse URLs:

  • Grand Central: ftl.multiverseonline.io

  • The Business Park: ftl.multiverseonline.io/locations/business_park

  • Another user's Home Room eg: personal-gamersan35.multiverseonline.io

It doesn't matter if the location is within your Metaverse, somewhere in the wider Multiverse, a friend's Home Room, or even another company's Metaverse. If you have the URL you can link to it!

Your personal Home Room's URL can also be found on the Manage Page or Home Page of your personal Metaverse - great for handing off to your friends - so they can jump directly to your Home Room from theirs!

NOTE: While using Metaverse URLs works perfectly for locations within public metaverses, this does not grant access to private memeber-only Metaverses. You will need to be a member to be able to use a door link to a private Metaverse. Likewise, you will need to be a a person's friend to access a door link to their Home Room (unless they've made it public).

Linking to another Oculus App or Game:

Using the Oculus App Star Chart as an example; on the website version of the Oculus Store you can find this app is at: https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/1951863938215666/ . The last part of the website URL shows the app ID - i.e. the digits [1951863938215666]. You would use these digits (without the [brackets]) to direct the app to Star Chart. Using this technique it is possible to discover the ID of any game or app - eg:

Similarly, the free App Lab game Gorilla Tag can be linked to with it's ID too: