The Guardian is an Oculus safety feature that lets you draw lines around your environment that act as a virtual boundary. This couch mode is the first time the Guardian has worked as more than just a simple measure of floor space.

It’ll appear as a 3d-modeled couch in the Oculus home menu environment. Position will be saved as part of the Guardian system.

The couch can now act as an extension of your guardian system rather than as an obstacle that limits your space. Previously you’d have had to draw guardian boundaries in front of the couch as if the space above it was a solid wall. Now if you move to the edges of the Guardian and see the couch outside it, you can simply sit down on it and get prompted to switch to’couch mode’.