The ManageXR Home Screen is a customizable app launcher for your end-users. It enables you to streamline the user experience and lock a device to your approved applications.

The Home Screen acts as a kiosk mode and does not allow users to exit without using an admin PIN.

There are multiple ways you can organize and customize your Home Screen content. All Home Screen features can be found by navigating to the configuration of your choice and selecting Device Experience.

VR Content

The VR Content tab allows you to view all the deployed content for an individual configuration. You can also hide content and perform content overrides from this tab. When you hide content, it will remain installed on your device but hidden from the Home Screen.

Menu Settings

Let's look at each setting option from the ManageXR Home Screen menu and its function within the ManageXR Home Screen menu toolbar.

Menu Button	Description	Device Compatibility
Wi-Fi	Launch a Wi-Fi menu to connect to a local wireless network	All Devices
Screencasting	Launch your device's native screencasting settings	All Pico, Lenovo and Meta Devices
Play Boundary	Launch the device-specific boundary setup tool	Pico Neo 2 Pico Neo 3 Meta Quest Meta Quest 2
Controller Settings	Launch your device's native controller settings menu	Pico G2 4k Pico Neo 2 Pico Neo 3
Bluetooth	Launch your device's native Bluetooth settings	Pico G2 4K Pico Neo 2 Pico Neo 3 Meta Quest Meta Quest 2
Admin Settings	Open the Admin Settings menu	All Devices
Display Language	Set your desired language for the ManageXR Home Screen. Choose from: English (Default) French German Spanish Ukrainian Portuguese Swedish	All Devices
Brightness* *This feature is in Beta. To opt-in, please contact support@managexr.com	Adjust the brightness of your Home Screen	Pico G2 4K Pico Neo 2 Pico Neo 3 Meta Quest Meta Quest 2

The Home Screen menu settings can be customized by:

Heading to the Configurations tab and selecting a configuration
Device Experience
Click ManageXR Home Screen
Tap Menu Settings

From here, you can toggle off/on desired toolbar settings, enable/disable the Shortcut Menu, set your display language, and edit your admin pin.

Shortcut Menu

The Shortcut Menu provides users quick access to give end-users quick access to key settings. The Shortcut Menu is available for the ManageXR Home Screen, as well as Kiosk App mode, and can be enabled and disabled for each configuration. To do so, you’ll need to navigate to Configurations > Device Experience > Menu Settings > Enable Shortcut Menu?

If you're not using the ManageXR Home Screen, and your end users need to access these settings, you can still do so by using our Shortcut Menu for Kiosk Mode.

Layout

The ManageXR web console offers the ability to customize the layout of your Home Screen in several ways. To make the Home Screen of your dreams, you’ll have to navigate to Configurations > Device Experience > Layout.

Menu Layout

Top Panel

The top panel of your Home Screen displays the categories of the deployed content in your configuration. Learn more about how to assign categories to your VR content.

If you’re not utilizing categories to organize your VR content, the top panel will display: Library.

No Panel

The No Panel option will not alter categories and will only hide them from appearing on your Home Screen.

Categories applied to VR content will be the same across all configurations. To create categories specific to a configuration, you’ll need to perform a VR content override. Learn more here.

Customize Card

Cards on your Home Screen display thumbnails, types, and titles of content. Based on your preferred layout, you can toggle the content type and title on and off, as well as the text alignment of these details.

Along with the type and title of the content card, you can alter the actual card's appearance. The default appearance of cards includes padding around the content thumbnail, but there is an option to remove this padding and make the cards transparent, as well.

You can also choose the number of cards displayed in a single row, along with how they're aligned. The customization options range from a minimum of 1 card per row to 5 cards per row.

Logo & Background

You can tailor the look and feel of your Home Screen by using logos and background images.

Brand

Top and bottom logos must be JPEG or PNG format but the recommended resolution for top logos is 300x100; the resolution of your bottom logo should be 200x100.

Background

You can set a 360-degree image as your ManageXR Home Screen's background or have a real-time view of your surroundings with Passthrough mode.

If you want a 360-degree image for your Home Screen background, you can choose from preset images or submit a custom image. For customized backgrounds of the Home Screen or the Shortcut Menu, the image must also be JPEG or PNG format. The required aspect ratio for both is 2:1, while the recommended resolution size is 4096x2048.

Display Type

Along with designating images for your Home Screen and Shortcut Menu, you can also determine their display type. The two display types are monoscopic and stereoscopic. By default, the display type for background images is monoscopic.

Colors

You can either choose from preset color palettes or customize your Home Screen theme with hex codes.

When it comes to your Home Screen, you can also adjust the opacity of the background color. You can choose from 1-100 for the opacity percentage. Your selected opacity will only be applied to the Home Screen menu displaying your VR content, not the toolbar menu settings.

FAQs

I don't see the option to adjust the brightness of my Home Screen. Why is that?

Home Screen brightness is a feature that's still in Beta. To be included in the Beta group for this feature, you'll need to contact support@managexr.com. Once the support team has enabled this feature for your organization, you can adjust your Home Screen brightness by accessing the kebab menu in the Home Screen toolbar.

Can I enable passthrough mode on Home Screen?

Yes, you can toggle on/off passthrough mode from your Home Screen toolbar. This feature is currently only available for Quest devices. Keep in mind that the native Quest shortcut of double-taping the side of the headset for passthrough will not work in ManageXR Home Screen/Kiosk App mode.

Why would I use the Shortcut Menu?

The Shortcut menu allows users to adjust settings swiftly with minimal disruption to their experience. It also provides an easy way to restart an application. The Shortcut Menu may be particularly useful if your end-users are new to extended reality technology. Learn more here.

How to toggle on Hand Tracking (Meta Quest devices only)?

To set up Hand Tracking, your device must not have Kiosk Mode/Home Screen enabled in ManageXR. Here's a guide to temporarily disabling kiosk mode. Once you've exited ManageXR's Kiosk Mode/Home Screen, you can follow the steps below to enable hand tracking on your device:

Go to the native Meta Settings
Click on Movement Tracking
Select Hand Tracking, if available. If not, proceed to the next step.
Next to Hand and Body tracking, switch the toggle to on or off to enable Hand Tracking.

After turning on Hand Tracking for the first time, a brief Meta tutorial will launch. You can now use Hand Tracking on the ManageXR Home Screen. Check out Meta's Getting Started with Hand Tracking guide for a list of gestures and other helpful information. This feature is in beta and is not officially supported on the ManageXR Home Screen. Results may vary from firmware version to firmware version.

How do I activate gaze control?

To activate gaze-based selection, your controllers must be disconnected, sleeping, or powered off (taking the batteries out also works). With gaze control, users can select an item on the Home Screen by hovering over it for 1 second. Gaze-based selection unlocks VR without controllers by allowing the headset to act like a controller, allowing you to target and launch content or menus using a headset pointer. Gaze control is especially convenient when delivering immersive content that doesn't require user input, like a 360 video. Available on the following devices:

PICO

4 Enterprise
4 Ultra
Neo 3
Neo 2
Neo 2 Eye
G3
G2 4K