OpenVR Advanced Settings Overlay

Adds an overlay to the OpenVR dashboard that allows access to advanced settings and useful utilities.

• Features
• Usage
  • Windows
    • Installer
    • Standalone
  • Linux
    • AppImage
    • Arch/Manjaro
    • Building from Source
  • Bindings
    • Music
    • Motion
    • Misc.
    • System.
    • Haptics.
  • Default Bindings
    • Vive Wands
    • Valve Index Controllers (Knuckles)
    • WMR
    • Touch
    • Other Controllers
  • SteamVR Input Guide
  • Command Line Arguments
  • INI File Options
  • Preview builds
• Documentation
  • Top Page
  • - SteamVR Page
  • - Chaperone Page
  • - Chaperone Proximity Warning Settings Page
  • - Space Offset Page
  • - Motion Page
  • - Rotation Page
  • - Space Fix Page
  • - Audio Page
  • - Video Page
  • - Utilities Page
  • - Statistics Page
  • - Settings Page
• How to Compile
  • Building on Windows
  • Building on Linux
• Notes:
• Common Issues:
• License

Features

Do all this without leaving VR:

• Set supersampling values.
• Enable/disable motion smoothing and advanced supersample filtering.
• Save supersampling and reprojection settings into profiles.
• Change several chaperone settings not accessible via SteamVR settings (to e.g. make it completely invisible).
• Chaperone Proximity Warning: Several warning methods can be configured.
• Chaperone Profiles: Allows to quickly switch chaperone geometry and settings while in VR.
• Temporarily move and rotate the playspace.
• Floor height fix, for knuckles and wands.
• Floor Center fix.
• Display several performance statistics and other statistics (e.g. headset rotations).
• Control audio devices, volumes and mirror devices.
• Control microphone as push-to-talk or push-to-mute via VR controller button.
• Simple Alarm Clock
• Player height adjust toggle
• Snap Turn option.
• Advanced Space Features: gravity, space-turn, and space-drag
• Control media players (Pause/Play, Next Song, Previous Song, Stop).
• Send keyboard inputs (like Alt+Tab, Alt+Enter, Backspace, etc.).
• Bind VR controller buttons to send keyboard inputs (for example to mute VOIP applications while in VR). Tutorial.
• All the above also available from a window on the desktop.

Usage

Windows

Installer

Download the newest installer from the release section and run it.

If you have an older standalone version installed, the installer will automatically uninstall the old version and install the new version.

Standalone

Download the newest standalone archive from the release section and unpack the archive.

To install for the first time simply start AdvancedSettings.exe once while SteamVR is running. It will register with SteamVR and automatically starts whenever SteamVR starts (Can be disabled in the settings).

To upgrade an existing installation first stop SteamVR and delete the old application folder (or override it). Then start SteamVR and run AdvancedSettings.exe once.

Linux

AppImage

The AppImage can be found in the release section and should run on most common Linux distributions.

Simply double click the AppImage once downloaded to run it. Depending on your distribution you may need to make it executable with chmod +x OpenVR_Advanced_Settings*.

If the AppImage doesn't work for whatever reason, please create an issue here describing the problem and try compiling from source.

Arch/Manjaro

OpenVR Advanced Settings is on the Arch User Repository as ovras. Manjaro users can enable the AUR and install this package using pamac build ovras.

Building from Source

Detailed instructions are available here.

Bindings

For information on how to properly set-up bindings see: SteamVR Input Guide

The following actions currently exist:

Music

Actions associated with media player.

Motion

Actions associated with motion tab, and motion.

Override actions will take priority over non-override actions during simultaneous activation. Example: binding space turn to single click and space drag (override) to double click on the same physical button.

Misc.

Actions that don't have a clear category.

System.

Actions That will stay active regardless of the situation.

Haptics.

These Actions are Hidden, They are bound by default. They allow the application to use the haptics and proximity sensor in HMD's.

Default Bindings

Vive Wands

• Menu Button (both hands)
  • Single Click: Space Turn (respective hand)
  • Double Click: Space Drag (override) (respective hand)
  • Single Click: Swap Active Space Drag (override) (respective hand)
• TrackPad (right hand)
  • D-pad Down click: Push-to-Talk
• Haptics bound

Valve Index Controllers (Knuckles)

• B Button (both hands)
  • Single Click: Space Turn (respective hand)
  • Double Click: Space Drag (override) (respective hand)
  • Single Click: Swap Active Space Drag (override) (respective hand)
• Trigger (left hand)
  • Click: Push-to-Talk
• Haptics boun

WMR

• Menu Button (both hands)
  • Single Click: Space Turn (respective hand)
  • Double Click: Space Drag (override) (respective hand)
  • Single Click: Swap Active Space Drag (override) (respective hand)
• TrackPad (right hand)
  • D-pad Down click: Push-to-Talk
• Haptics bound

Touch

• B/Y Button (respective hands)
  • Single Click: Space Turn (respective hand)
  • Double Click: Space Drag (override) (respective hand)
  • Single Click: Swap Active Space Drag (override) (respective hand)
• Trigger (left hand)
  • Click: Push-to-Talk
• Haptics bound

Other Controllers

No current default bindings you will have to make your own.

SteamVR Input Guide

A Guide to the SteamVR Input System can be found here

Or a Video guide by Kung can be found here

Command Line Arguments

The application (AdvancedSettings.exe) can be run with the following optional arguments:

"--desktop-mode": Creates a settings window on the desktop, but not in VR. Running startdesktopmode.bat in the install directory has the same effect.

"--force-no-sound": Forces sound effects off.

"--force-no-manifest": Forces not using a .vrmanifest.

"--force-install-manifest": Force installs the .vrmanifest and adds the application to autostart. If you're having issues with autostart not working try running the program once with this set. The program will exit early when this flag is set.

"--force-remove-manifest": Force uninstalls the .vrmanifest. This should be done every time the application is uninstalled. On Windows it is automatically done by the uninstaller. The program will exit early when this flag is set.

INI File Options

There are some features that can only be enabled by directly specifying them in the .ini file. On windows the .ini file can be found at Users\username\AppData\Roaming\AdvancedSettings-Team\OpenVRAdvancedSettings.ini.

When adding options to the .ini file, they must be added under the correct section to function.

Currently the following ini-file-only settings exist:

Under [playspaceSettings] adding showLogMatricesButton=true will enable a button in the Offsets Tab that when pressed will write a section to the log file containing the current pose matrix data for tracked devices and universe settings.

Also under [playspaceSettings] adding simpleRecenter=true will disable a workaround that allows seated recenter to function on non-lighthouse devices. The workaround instantly applies a second seated recenter whenever a seated recenter is executed. Because simpleRecenter=true will break non-lighthouse seated mode, and true/false behavior is indistinguishable on lighthouse devices, usage of simpleRecenter=true is not recommended.

Under [utilitiesSettings] adding vrcDebug=true will enable some buttons in the Utilities Tab to toggle debug panels in VRChat.

Under [applicationSettings] adding enableDebug=true will show a "Debug State" text box in the Settings Tab. Changing the debug state number may be used for in-dev branch builds. At this time, it doesn't do anything on the master build.

Preview builds

If you want to try latest and greatest unreleased features, you can download the latest from the CI (Continuous Integration) server for Windows and Linux (gcc build, CircleCI issue requires login to see artifact tab).

These version are not stable and this should be considered for advanced users only.

Documentation

Top Page

• Video Profile: Allows to apply Video profiles. Profiles can be created on the Video page
• Chaperone Profile: Allows to apply chaperone profiles. Profiles can be created on the Chaperone page
• Microphone: Allows to set the microphone volume and to mute/unmute it.
• Push-to-Talk: Enable/disable push-to-talk.

- SteamVR Page

• Misc
  • Enable Timing Overlay: Enables a simple Timing overlay, locked to HMD currently.
  • Allow Multiple Drivers: Allows multiple Drivers to be loaded allowing multi-device setups (i.e. rift with vive trackers).
  • Disable Notifications: Disables Notifications (pop-ups) while in VR.
  • Enable System Button Binding: Allows System Button to be bound and used in any app. (you will probably want to change the bindings in "VR Compositor")
  • No Fade to Grid: When app goes non-responsive, you will not fade to grid.
• Camera (all checkboxes require restart)
  • Enable Camera: Enables Camera Features
  • Camera for Bounds: Your camera view will replace your vr view as you near/exit chaperone
  • Camera for Dashboard: You will have a small camera view attached to your controller when you have the dashboard active.
  • Camera for Room View: You will have a Tron/Shadow version of the room when double-clicking system button.
• Desktop Overlay Width: Adjusts teh width of Steam's desktop overlay.
• Restart SteamVR: Restart SteamVR (May crash the Steam overlay when SteamVR Home is running when you restart. Therefore I advice that you close SteamVR Home before restarting).

- Chaperone Page

• Profile: Allows to apply/define/delete chaperone profiles that save geometry info, style info or other chaperone settings.
• Visibility: Allows to configure the visibility of the chaperone bounds. 30% to 100% opacity.
• Fade Distance: Allows to configure the distance at which the chaperone bounds are shown. (When set to 0 chaperone bounds are completely invisible.)
• Height: Allows to configure the height of the chaperone bounds.
• Center Marker: Displays a marker that represents the center of the playspace.
• Play Space Maker: Displays the outlines of the rectangle representing the playspace.
• Force Bounds: Force chaperone bounds always on.
• Disable Chaperone: Disables Chaperone by setting fade distance to 0.0.
• Proximity Warning Settings: Opens a page that allows to configure several warning methods for when the user comes too close to the chaperone bounds.
• Rotate Orientation: Rotates the orientation by a set amount.
• Reload from Disk: Reloads the chaperone bounds geometry from disk.

- Chaperone Proximity Warning Settings Page

• Switch to Beginner Mode: Switches the chaperone bound's style to beginner mode when the user's distance to the chaperone falls below the configured activation distance.
• Trigger Haptic Feedback: The left and right controller start vibrating when the user's distance to the chaperone falls below the configured activation distance. (HMD or controllers can trigger)
• Audio Warning: Plays an alarm sound when the user's distance to the chaperone falls below the configured activation distance.
  • Loop Audio: Whether the audio alarm should only be played once or in a loop.
  • Loop Audio: Modify audio volume as a function of the user's distance to the chaperone.
• Open dashboard: Opens the dashboard when the user's distance to the chaperone falls below the configured activation distance. The idea is to pause the game (most single-player games auto-pause when the dashboard is shown) to give the user time for reorientation.

- Space Offset Page

Allows users to temporarily move and rotate the center of the playspace. This allows reaching interaction elements that are just outside our real-world walls or otherwise inaccessible (e.g. when your playspace is smaller than the recommended one). Can also be used to discover the terrors that lie outside of the intended playspace (ever wondered what's behind the door in The Lab?).

• Adjust Chaperone: When enabled, the chaperone bounds stay accurate even when the playspace is moved or rotated (so noone gets hurt). Depending on chaperone mode this may or may not adjust with height.
• Seated Recenter: When clicked, applies the current location and angle of the headset to the offsets such that the user is brought to a centered position. Also applies the current headset height to the default seated height (not visible in offsets). This action will also be activated automatically when a seated application sends a reset center command. Note: This button is only visible when running seated applications.

- Motion Page

• Space Drag: Allows shifting your playspace by dragging your controller, Binds must be set via SteamVR Input system.
  • Left/Right Hand: Toggles functionality (must be active in addition to binding via input system to work.)
  • Comfort Mode: Limits the rate at which your movement updates, reducing smoothness so that perceived motion starts to feel more like mini-teleports. Higher values reduce smoothness more.
  • Force Bounds: Forces the display of the chaperone bounds during Space Drag.
• Height Toggle: Toggle between zero and an offset for gravity floor height. If gravity is inactive the user is also moved to this offset. (Example: allows for quick switching between a seated and standing height.) Can be bound via SteamVr Input System.
  • On: Current toggle state, Binds directly modify this.
  • Height Offset: The amount of the offset (+ is down.)
  • Set From Y-Offset: grabs the Y-Offset value from Offset Page.
• Gravity Settings: Provides a gravity and momentum simulation to dynamically move your space offset.
  • On: Current toggle state, Binds directly modify this.
  • Gravity Strength: Gravity simulation's downward acceleration in meters per second squared. Planet buttons provide quick settings for well known gravity strengths. Values can also be typed in directly.
  • Friction: Slows down motion over time.
  • Save Momentum: whether your momentum is saved between on/off toggles of gravity.
  • fling Strength: adjusts the strength at which you "throw" yourself with space drag feature.

- Rotation Page

• Auto Turn: Automatically rotates your playspace when you get near a wall, by rotating the direction you're looking to be inside your playspace, parallel to a wall.

  • Toggle On/Off: current state, bind directly modifies this.
  • Activation Distance: How far from the wall before Autoturn activates.
  • DeActivation Distance: The minimum distance (activation + deactivation) you must be from the wall before autoturn will activate again.
  • Use Corner Angle: When already against a wall and reaching a corner, turn the angle of that corner rather than the angle of your headset to the wall (reccomended)
  • Use Smooth Turn: Toggles between a smooth turn and a snap turn.
  • Turn Speed: How fast you rotate in Degrees per second.
  • Detangle Angle: Settings attempting to keep your cord untangled while using the Auto-Turn feature.
    • Min Rotations(deg): The amount of rotation before Auto-Turn starts to try and un-tangle your cord.
    • Max Wall Angle(deg): When the angle of your headset to the wall is less than Max Wall Angle, it will turn you whichever way will start to untangle your cord. Otherwise it will turn you whichever way is closest. Set to '0' if you have a cordless setup

• Redirected Walking: Adds rotation as you walk to turn you away from the nearest wall you're moving towards. At 'Imperceptable' and 'Slight' angles should be subtle enough to feel as if you're walking in a straight line, effectively making your playspace feel bigger.

  • On: Toggles Feature on/off
  • Radius: Radius in meters of how big a circle would be drawn to keep you walking in a straight line inside a game.

• Space Turn: Allows rotating your playspace by rotating your controller. Binds must be set via SteamVR Input system.

  • Left/Right Hand: Toggles functionality (must be active in addition to binding via input system to work.)
  • Comfort Mode: Limits the rate at which your rotation updates, reducing smoothness so that perceived rotation starts to feel more like mini-snap-turns. Higher values reduce smoothness more.
  • Force Bounds: Forces the display of the chaperone bounds during Space Turn.

• Snap Turn Angle: Allows snap (instant) turning by the specified angle. Can type in values or use the preset buttons for angles that neatly divide 360 degrees. Must bind actions via SteamVR Input interface.

• Smooth Turn Rate: Allows smooth turning by a percentage of a degree per frame. (i.e. 100% at 90fps is 90 degress/sec or 15 RPM)

- Space Fix Page

• Fix Floor Allows you to fix the height of your floor. Just place one controller on your floor and press the button.
• Recenter Playspace Besides fixing the floor height, also recenters the place space around the controller on the floor.
• Apply Space Settings Offsets as Center Takes current values from Offsets page and re-caliberates center/rotation. Caution The reset function will then refer to this location as the new zero location, overriding the old zero location.
• Revert All Changes from This Session Reverts the chaperone config back to the state it was in when launching vr. (This applies the Autosaved Profile from the Chaperone Tab).

- Audio Page

• Playback Device: Allows to select the playback device.
  • Toggle Override: Allows you to select a playback device instead of HMD's audio.
• Mirror Device: Allows to select the mirror device, set its volume and to mute/unmute it.
• Microphone: Allows to select the microphone device, set its volume and to mute/unmute it.
  • Toggle Override: Allows you to select a recording device instead of HMD's microphone.
• Proximity Sensor Mutes/Unmutes Microphone: Uses the HMD's proximity Sensor to mute the mic when it is removed from your head, PTT works with this feature, But you will be un-able to manually mute/un-mute your mic via icon.
• Push-to-Talk: Enable/disable push-to-talk. When push-to-talk is activated the microphone gets muted unless the Push To Talk action is activated.
• Show Notification: Shows a notification icon in the headset when the Push To Talk action is activated.
• Push-to-Mute: Inverse push-to-talk. The Microphone is unmuted by default and muted when the keybind is pressed.
  • NOTE: The Push-to-talk box must be enabled for this feature to work.
• Audio Profile: Disabled for 4.0.0 / OpenVR 1.8.19 due to bugs in API Allows you to apply/define/delete audio profiles that save playback devices, mute state, and volume.

- Video Page

• Brightness: Allows Dimming of your view.
  • On/Off: Toggles The Dimming on/off.
  • Brightness: The amount of dimming.
  • Note: Does not necessarily reduce light output of HMD will vary based on panel type etc.
• Color Adjustment: Allows Adjusting of the Color of your display.
  • : Adjusts the Gain to adjust color. (This works for Valve Index, Vive, and Vive Pro) If your headset does not support gain adjustment please see Use Overlay For Color.
• SuperSampling: Adjusts application super sampling values (requires refresh of dashboard, and/or restart of SteamVR/OpenVR).
  • Toggle Override: allows user configureable amount different than recommended value.
• Video Profiles: allows Users to save their settings and apply quickly via a drop down menu.
• Misc:
  • Motion Smoothing: Enables/Disables Motion Smoothing.
  • Advanced SS Filtering: Enables/Disables Texture filtering to allow better textures at long distances. (default is on)
  • Use Overlay for Color: Use an Overlay for Color Adjustment rather than Gain (works with all HMD's, replaces Brightness and Color Adjustment)

• Brightness: Same as regular.
• Opacity: Adjusts opacity of color overlay.
  • Toggle On/Off: Turns on/off Color Adjustment Overlay.
• : Adjusts the overlay to adjust the color.

- Utilities Page

• Keyboard Utilities: Some applications (mostly 2D-monitor applications with tackled-on/modded-in VR support) do not support the VR keyboard but require an actual physical keyboard for text input. This utilities allow to send emulated key strokes from VR keyboard input to such application to overcome this limitation. Does not work in desktop mode. Adding vrcDebug=true to [utilitiesSettings] in the OpenVRAdvancedSettings.ini will display some buttons for VRChat debug overlay keybinds. The "Keyboard Input" button works as described here.

• Alarm Clock: Just a simple alarm clock so you don't miss important appointments. VR can sure mess up perception of time. Does not work in desktop mode.

• Media Control Keys: Allows controlling a media player through the media keys. This is the same as having a keyboard with media keys and then pressing them. Should support most common media players.

- Statistics Page

• HMD Distance Moved: Shows the distance the headset has moved on the xz-plane.
• HMD Rotations: Shows the number of rotations around the y-axis (Useful for untangling the cord).
• Left Controller Max Speed: Shows the max speed of the left controller.
• Right Controller Max Speed: Shows the max speed of the right controller.
• Presented Frames: Number of frames presented to the hmd in the currently running application.
• Dropped Frames: Number of frames dropped in the currently running application.
• Reprojected Frames: Number of frames reprojected in the currently running application.
• Timed Out: Number of times the currently running application timed out.
• Reprojection Ratio: Ratio of presented frames to reprojected frames.

- Settings Page

• Autostart: Allows you to enable/disable auto start.
• Allow External App Chaperone Edits: Incorporates changes to the chaperone and universe center made by other applications. These changes could come from anywhere, including apps with unpredictable interactions with Advanced Settings. Therefore, this option opens the potential for chaperone misalignment or corruption. However it also allows other chaperone tweaking tools to function in tandem with Advanced Settings. This option should only be checked if required for compatibility with other apps. Note: Changes will only take effect when offsets and rotation are all zero.
• Old-Style Motion: Uses the old system of writing the chaperone universe center and bounds to disk every frame. Use this option only if you experience issues with playspace motion such as snapping back to reset position after releasing a space-drag. This old mode is smooth on most systems but is in theory less performant than the normal method.
• Universe-Centered Rotation: Causes Rotation to be applied to Universe Center Rather than HMD (Disables offsets automatically compensating to pivot at the HMD).
• Enable Motion Features When in Seated Mode: Uncheck this if Advanced Settings causes strange positioning in a seated application. (Different apps handle seated mode in different ways, some are less compatible with Advanced Settings). Note: if unchecked, all Space Offsets and Motion tab features will be disabled.
• Disable Automatic Crash Recovery of Chaperone Config: This prevents applying of the last good autosaved chaperone profile when starting up after not shutting down properly.
• Disable Notification of Newer Version Availability: This turns off the on start-up check for a new version. (You can refresh this to do a manual check.)
• Disable App Vsync: Allows setting a custom base update rate for Advanced Settings. (Might be useful on HMDs with very high or very low refresh rates).

How to Compile

Building on Windows

Full build instructions can be found here.

Building on Linux

Full build instructions can be found here.

Notes:

• The center marker and the play space marker are provided by the chaperone subsystem, and therefore they will have the same color and visibility settings as the chaperone bounds.

• Application autostart can also be configured in the SteamVR menu (SteamVR->Settings->Applications->"Advanced Settings").

• You can modify the shutdown wait time when restarting SteamVR by opening restartvrserver.bat and changing the number behind "timeout /t" (unit is seconds).

• When Using Proximity Sensor Features while the Dashboard is up the action will not evaluate, so your mic will be muted, and some chaperone warnings won't work while dashboard is up.

Common Issues:

• Issue: Upon clicking ADV-Settings icon no page shows up.

  • Cause: related to multiple GPU systems (and specifically nvidia), and ALVR
  • Solution: go to Nvidia Control Panel -> manage 3D settings -> add Advanced Settings, and force the vr gpu for it.

• Issue: Snap back when using motion controls with WMR headset

  • Cause: WMR boundary off, or set up for standing only.
  • Solution: Please set-up WMR for all experiences, and then if you don't want WMR boundary you can toggle off the boundary after SteamVR/OpenVR has been started.

License

This software is released under GPL 3.0, and other third-party Licenses