How to use private browsing on your oculus go
By Robert King
Lowell is the founder and CEO of How-To Geek. He’s been running the show since creating the site back in 2006. Over the last decade, Lowell has personally written more than 1000 articles which have been viewed by over 250 million people. Prior to starting How-To Geek, Lowell spent 15 years working in IT doing consulting, cybersecurity, database management, and programming work. Read more.
The Oculus Go is a great headset, but there’s no easy way to keep things secret on there. What if you want to browse something embarrassing—like a Linux fan page? Here’s how to use Incognito (Private Browsing) mode on the Oculus Go.
On the home screen, look down at the toolbar, and select the “Browser” option (check out the image above). In your browser, look over to the left, and you’ll see the “Enter private mode” button at the lower left-hand corner. Click that.
You’re presented with a nice “You are in private mode” screen that tells you all about it. You can click in the address bar and start searching for whatever people that like Linux search for these days, without any worry of being tracked, or somebody else putting on the headset and reading what you’ve been up to.
Well…as long as you remember to Exit private browsing mode when you’re done. On the lower left-hand corner, click the “Close All” button to kill all the open tabs, and then exit private mode. You have to do it in that order, or it won’t close the tabs for some reason, and you can click Enter to get back to the same open tab.
It’s worth noting that clicking Exit private mode will also clean up the Downloaded Files list in your browser—but it will not actually delete the files from your Oculus. They’ll still be there, and you can still launch them from the Gallery’s Internal Storage option. So if you download anything while in private mode, you’ll need to also go delete it from the gallery.
Your weird Linux obsession is safe with us. Nobody will ever know.
Oculus Quest and Oculus Go are bringing a lot of new buyers to VR headsets in 2019 and that means a lot of new people using the Oculus Browser to surf the Web.
For those unfamiliar, the Oculus Browser lets you visit any normal web page while also including support for virtual worlds built with WebVR. The software includes most standard browsing features, including private browsing mode. We contacted Facebook recently to get explanations about what the company stores related to browsing activity.
We received some interesting answers over email and are including them below. If you have any questions or additional information — please share in the comments or email [email protected].
We’ll plan to update this post over time if we receive substantial updates.
What data, if any, does the Oculus Browser transmit back to Facebook? Does it transmit browser history?
The Oculus Browser does not share information with the Facebook family of apps unless you choose to log into Facebook via FB login (this would be the same information that Facebook would receive if you logged in to Facebook while using another browser). That said, as with using any browser, web sites themselves may collect information about you. What data is collected, how it is used, and who it is shared with is up to the web site and their privacy policy. Some web sites may share information about you with Facebook through Facebook Business Tools they use, including our social plug-ins (such as the Like button), Facebook Login, our APIs and SDKs, or the Facebook pixel (see the Facebook privacy policy for more information). This is generally true no matter what web browser or device you use.
Has this data collection level been different in the past?
No. nothing has changed with how the Oculus Browser has worked.
What controls do users have over how much data Oculus Browser sends to Facebook?
As stated above, what data is collected, how it is used, and who it is shared with is up to the web site and their privacy policy. Some web sites may share information about you with Facebook through Facebook Business Tools they use, including our social plug-ins (such as the Like button), Facebook Login, our APIs and SDKs, or the Facebook pixel (see the Facebook privacy policy for more information). This is generally true no matter what web browser or device you use.
Facebook gives people controls for how their information is used to serve them ads which can be found here.
UploadVR noted in a follow up email that “sharing” information is not the same as “collecting” or “saving” information. So we sent these follow up questions:
If I’m using the Oculus Browser on an Oculus headset, is my browser history transmitted from the device to Facebook/Oculus servers in any circumstance?
Oculus does not transmit your complete browser history to our servers. We, do, however, collect domain name data (like wikipedia.com) to assess how many unique users visit a specific website to help us prioritize what sites we focus on from a compatibility and performance standpoint. We disassociate this information from our users because we only care that a person visited a site, not that YOU in particular visited that site. We limit the storage of this data to 30 days.
An additional point to add – one of the features of the Oculus Browser includes curated WebVR experiences that we recommend on the ‘New Tab” page of the browser. In this case, we measure when someone interacts with an experience we recommend to help us improve the recommendations and offer more relevant pages.
Has this ever happened in the past — whether a person has logged into Facebook or not?
As explained above, this is always how our Browser behavior has worked.
Does private browsing mode have any effect on this functionality?
When you are in private browsing mode, we don’t log data about the domain names users visit. And a quick reminder that we don’t show the new tab page in private browsing mode.
Ian Hamilton
Ian Hamilton is a journalist based in Arkansas and managing editor at UploadVR. He’s covered VR full-time since 2015 as well as Oculus VR since 2012. He is interested in the people creating VR and AR hardware and software, their motivations, and how that work affects the people who spend significant time in simulations. If you have information to pass along you can send him a direct message on Twitter, Facebook or via email.
Lowell is the founder and CEO of How-To Geek. He’s been running the show since creating the site back in 2006. Over the last decade, Lowell has personally written more than 1000 articles which have been viewed by over 250 million people. Prior to starting How-To Geek, Lowell spent 15 years working in IT doing consulting, cybersecurity, database management, and programming work. Read more.
Well, you’ve really done it this time. You searched for something embarrassing—like “Linux”—on your Oculus, and now it’s in your search history. What are you going to do? Luckily, we’ve got the instructions for clearing your browser or search history on your Oculus Go.
Finding Your Oculus Go Browser History
Open up your browser using the main navigation tool, and then look over to the right-hand side. Click the “Settings” button (the gear icon) at the upper right-hand corner, and then click the “History” option.
Here, you can view your whole history and delete individual history items.
Clearing Your Browser and Search History on Oculus Go
As you probably guessed, to delete your whole browser history at one go, you head back to Settings, and then click the “Clear Browsing Data” option.
The default setting is to clear data from the past hour. If that’s a good enough time frame for you, then just select what you want to delete and hit the “Clear Data” button. If you want to delete data from more than just the past hour, click where it reads “Clear data from the past hour.”
That opens a quick window where you can change the time period for which data will be cleared. If you want to clear your whole browsing history, select the “beginning of time” option.
Clearing data is pretty easy, but maybe next time use the private browsing mode on your Oculus Go before you looking up stuff like Linux again.
Using the Oculus Go browser: how to enable Private Browsing on Oculus Go?
Oculus Go does not come with a special browser pre-installed. It runs on software just called ‘Browser’. After further experiments we managed to find that it does run well, similarly to Windows Explorer. It is not quiet Google Chrome, but it is not Opera either.
How to open the Browser?
- Choose the Browser button in the menu at the bottom of the screen.
- Choose the G option for the Google Browser.
- Type in the address you would like to visit and hit Enter.
Browsing on your Oculus Go allows you to use the controller as a navigation stick. Selecting something works a bit differently than when selecting with a mouse. When you want to select something with your Oculus Go controller, just hover over the option and click the button. You might have to press harder on the controller button as some users have reported diminished sensitivity.
You might be wondering how to enable Private Browsing on your Oculus Go. Private Browsing comes very handy if you are sharing a computer or phone with siblings, have nosy parents who might peek into your private time, or you just like to keep things neat and tidy, It’s very common for people to use Private Browsing. Luckily, setting it up on Oculus Go is as easy as snapping your fingers. Here is how to open.
- Locate the ‘+’ sign on the left of your Oculus Go interface.
- Locate ‘Enter Private Mode’.
- You will be directed to a Private Browsing Window. You can browse without saving any passwords or keeping a History record.
That is it. Oculus Go lets you browse the internet in the comfort of your VR-Headset without being disturbed by other. Being able to use private Browsing increases that privacy.
Using the Oculus Go browser: how to enable Private Browsing on Oculus Go?
Oculus Go does not come with a special browser pre-installed. It runs on software just called ‘Browser’. After further experiments we managed to find that it does run well, similarly to Windows Explorer. It is not quiet Google Chrome, but it is not Opera either.
How to open the Browser?
- Choose the Browser button in the menu at the bottom of the screen.
- Choose the G option for the Google Browser.
- Type in the address you would like to visit and hit Enter.
Browsing on your Oculus Go allows you to use the controller as a navigation stick. Selecting something works a bit differently than when selecting with a mouse. When you want to select something with your Oculus Go controller, just hover over the option and click the button. You might have to press harder on the controller button as some users have reported diminished sensitivity.
You might be wondering how to enable Private Browsing on your Oculus Go. Private Browsing comes very handy if you are sharing a computer or phone with siblings, have nosy parents who might peek into your private time, or you just like to keep things neat and tidy, It’s very common for people to use Private Browsing. Luckily, setting it up on Oculus Go is as easy as snapping your fingers. Here is how to open.
- Locate the ‘+’ sign on the left of your Oculus Go interface.
- Locate ‘Enter Private Mode’.
- You will be directed to a Private Browsing Window. You can browse without saving any passwords or keeping a History record.
That is it. Oculus Go lets you browse the internet in the comfort of your VR-Headset without being disturbed by other. Being able to use private Browsing increases that privacy.
Oculus Go er et fantastisk headset, men der er ingenlet måde at holde ting hemmeligt derinde. Hvad hvis du vil gennemse noget pinligt – som en Linux-fanside? Sådan bruges Incognito-tilstand (Privat browsing) på Oculus Go.
Se ned på værktøjslinjen på startskærmen ogVælg “Browser” -indstillingen (se billedet ovenfor). I din browser skal du kigge til venstre, så ser du knappen “Gå ind i privat tilstand” i nederste venstre hjørne. Klik på det.
Du får præsenteret en dejlig ”Du er privattilstand ”skærm, der fortæller dig alt om det. Du kan klikke i adresselinjen og begynde at søge efter, hvad folk, der kan lide Linux-søgning i disse dage, uden at bekymre dig om at blive sporet, eller nogen anden sætter på headsettet og læser, hvad du har været med til.
Nå . så længe du husker at afslutte privatbrowsertilstand, når du er færdig. I nederste venstre hjørne skal du klikke på knappen “Luk alle” for at dræbe alle de åbne faner og derefter forlade privat tilstand. Du skal gøre det i den rækkefølge, ellers lukker de ikke fanerne af en eller anden grund, og du kan klikke på Enter for at komme tilbage til den samme åbne fane.
Det er værd at bemærke, at klikke på Afslut privat tilstandrenser også listen over downloadede filer i din browser — men den sletter faktisk ikke filerne fra din Oculus. De vil stadig være der, og du kan stadig starte dem fra Galleriets mulighed for intern opbevaring. Så hvis du downloader noget, mens du er i privat tilstand, skal du også slette det fra galleriet.
Din underlige Linux-besættelse er sikker hos os. Ingen vil nogensinde vide det.
Getting to incognito mode easily
So you’ve got your Oculus Go up and ready and you’re looking into all the cool things you can do with it. One of those things might be Googling the weird questions you think of at 3AM that you never want to show up in your search history for anyone to see. The solution to this is going incognito, and here’s how!
How to open the browser
Finding the browser on your Oculus Go has been made pretty easy for you, and we’re thankful for that.
Select the “Browser” button on the menu located at the bottom of the screen.
Select the “G” icon for the usual Google Browser.
Select the website bar at the top, type in the place you would like to go and hit enter.
Using your controller
Your Oculus Go controller has a couple of different functions. When you want to select something all you have to do is hover over the target and press the trigger button. If you want to scroll through the web page then use the touch pad to glide your thumb over it in the direction you want to move.
Getting to incognito mode
Open a new tab by looking to your left and selecting the “+” symbol on the top.
Select incognito by selecting “Enter private mode.”
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So you’ve got your Oculus Go up and ready and you’re looking into all the cool things you can do with it. One of those things might be Googling the weird questions you think of at 3AM that you never want to show up in your search history for anyone to see. The solution to this is going incognito, and here’s how!
How to open the browser
Finding the browser on your Oculus Go has been made pretty easy for you, and we’re thankful for that.
Select the “Browser” button on the menu located at the bottom of the screen.
Select the “G” icon for the usual Google Browser.
Select the website bar at the top, type in the place you would like to go and hit enter.
Using your controller
Your Oculus Go controller has a couple of different functions. When you want to select something all you have to do is hover over the target and press the trigger button. If you want to scroll through the web page then use the touch pad to glide your thumb over it in the direction you want to move.
Getting to incognito mode
Open a new tab by looking to your left and selecting the “+” symbol on the top.
Select incognito by selecting “Enter private mode.”
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Oculus Go er et godt headset, men der er ingen nem måde at holde tingene hemmelige på der. Hvad hvis du vil gennemse noget pinligt – som en Linux fan side? Sådan bruger du Incognito (Private Browsing) -tilstand på Oculus Go.
På startskærmen skal du se ned på værktøjslinjen og vælge “Browser” (se billedet ovenfor). I din browser skal du se over til venstre, og du vil se knappen “Enter private mode” nederst i venstre hjørne. Klik på det.
Du er præsenteret med en skøn “Du er i privat tilstand” skærm, der fortæller dig alt om det. Du kan klikke i adresselinjen og begynde at søge efter de personer, der ligner Linux i disse dage, uden at bekymre sig om at blive sporet eller nogen andre lægger på headsettet og læser, hvad du har lavet.
Nå . så længe du husker at Afslut privat browsing mode, når du er færdig. Klik på knappen Luk alle i nederste venstre hjørne for at dræbe alle de åbne faner, og afslut privat mode. Du skal gøre det i den rækkefølge, eller det lukker ikke fanerne af en eller anden grund, og du kan klikke på Enter for at komme tilbage til samme åbne fane.
Det er værd at bemærke, at klikke på Afslut privat tilstand også vil rydde listen over overførte filer i din browser, men det vil ikke slette filerne fra din Oculus. De vil stadig være der, og du kan stadig starte dem fra Galleriets Indstillinger for intern lagerplads. Så hvis du downloader noget i privat tilstand, skal du også slette den fra galleriet.
Din underlige Linux-besættelse er sikker med os. Ingen vil nogensinde vide det.
With Facebook recently launching the Oculus Quest and Rift S—both of which rely on always-on cameras during use—we reached out to the company to learn more about what data is captured by the cameras and how it’s used.
There’s never a bad time to be skeptical about how your private information is being used by products and companies which gather information about you, but an especially good time is when using products that rely on always-on cameras during use. That’s the case with both the Oculus Quest and Rift S, both of which use an array of cameras for tracking the movement of your head and hands, and to offer a pass-through view of your surroundings.
While the cameras used with the original Rift present similar privacy concerns, it uses simple point-matching for tracking and does not map and store information about your physical playspace like Quest and Rift S.
By our reading, neither Oculus’ Privacy Policy nor Terms of Service specifically address how data captured or derived from the headsets’ cameras is used, stored, or transmitted, so we reached out to Facebook to get more insight. An Oculus spokesperson offered the following:
The sensors on Quest and Rift S are primarily used to create a 3D map of your environment, which helps locate your headset and controllers in a known space so Quest/Rift S can work and keep you safe. This data is processed on the headsets.
The only information we keep on our servers today consists of performance metrics that don’t contain any recognizable detail about your environment. These metrics help us improve [the inside-out tracking system]. We don’t collect and store images or 3D maps of your environment on our servers today—raw images are not stored anywhere, and 3D maps are stored locally on the headset for Quest, and on your local PC (where you have access to delete it) for Rift S. This makes it possible for Quest/ Rift S to remember the playspaces you’ve already set up in multiple rooms.
We’ll notify users if collecting this information on our servers is required for future VR experiences we provide on Quest and Rift S, for example, co-located multiplayer experiences. (That said, it’s worth noting there are a few scenarios when users can opt-in to providing this information today: For example, when livestreaming, a user can choose to stream passthrough footage and thus that footage may be stored off platform/on their streaming surface—similarly, when submitting a bug report to Oculus a user can elect to include passthrough footage if it’s relevant to the report).
Update (August 6th, 2019): Oculus offered some additional information on Quest and Rift S camera privacy:
- Like the white LED on Quest, the blue LED on Rift S indicates when the headset’s cameras are active; this is a hardware function which can’t be circumvented with software.
- If a hacker gains root access to Quest or the Rift S host system, it would be possible to access the cameras on the headsets (similar to a camera on a compromised smartphone or PC).
- Third-party developers cannot access the headsets’ cameras in any way.
The spokesperson also noted that Oculus hosts a ‘My Privacy Center‘ where users can find more information about their privacy settings, including what information is currently stored about them [both links here require you to be logged into your Oculus account].
The key takeaways from Oculus’ statement is that the data captured by the cameras is being processed locally for tracking, and that 3D maps of your environment are not being transmitted or stored on a server. They explicitly say that raw images (camera footage) is not stored anywhere (even on the local headset or host machine).
Oculus has also told us previously that cameras on Quest cannot be active without the white LED at the top of the headset being illuminated, so at a minimum it would be easy to see at a glance if the cameras were activating surreptitiously.
