OpenVR Advanced Settings Overlay

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

Features

• Set supersampling values.
• Enable/disable asynchronous and interleaved reprojection.
• Change several chaperone settings not accessible via SteamVR settings (to e.g. make it completely invisible).
• Chaperone Profiles: Allows to quickly switch chaperone geometry and settings while in VR.
• Temporarily move and rotate the playspace.
• Floor height fix.
• Displays several performance statistics and other statistics (e.g. headset rotations).
• Mute/unmute and set volume of audio mirror device.
• Mute/unmute and set volume of microphone device.
• Implements push-to-talk and allows to configure push-to-talk profiles.
• Desktop mode shows a window on the desktop instead of a vr overlay.
• Revive settings support (Requires Revive 1.0.4+ for full functionality).
• VR Keyboard Input Utilities
• Simple Alarm Clock

Usage

Installer

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

If you have an older standalone version installed, delete the old application folder first.

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 SteamVRis 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.

Desktop mode

Executing startdesktopmode.bat from the application folder shows a window on the desktop instead of a vr overlay. Desktop mode can be used alongside an already running vr overlay instance.

Documentation

Top 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 and allows to apply push-to-talk profiles. Profiles can be created on the Audio page.

- SteamVR Page:

• Application Supersampling: Supersampling setting for OpenVR applications/games (Requires restart).
• Compositor Supersampling: Supersampling setting for the OpenVR compositor (Requires restart).
• Allow Asynchronous Reprojection: Enable/disable asynchronous reprojection.
• Allow Interleaved Reprojection: Enable/disable interleaved reprojection.
• Force Reprojection: Enable/disable forced reprojection (Requires restart).
• Restart SteamVR: Restart SteamVR.

- Chaperone Page:

• Profile: Allows to apply/define/delete chaperone profiles that save geometry info, style info or other chaperone settings (What exactly is saved in a chaperone profile can be selected when a profile is created).
• Visibility: Allows to configure the visibility of the chaperone bounds. Unlike the slider in the chaperone settings, this one is not capped at 30%. When set to 0 chaperone bounds are completely invisible.
• 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.
• Flip Orientation: Flips the orientation of the play space.
• Reload from Disk: Reloads the chaperone bounds geometry from disk.

- Play Space Page:

Allows to temporarily move and rotate the center of the playspace. This allows to reach interaction elements that are just inside 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 then the chaperone bounds stay in place when the playspace is moved or rotated (so noone gets hurt). Unfortunately this does not work when moving up/down.

- Floor Fix Page:

Allows you to fix the height of your floor. Just place one controller on your floor and press the button.

- Audio Page:

• Mirror Device: Allows to set the volume of the audio mirror device and to mute/unmute it.
• Microphone: Allows to set the volume of the microphone device and to mute/unmute it.
• Push-to-Talk: Enable/disable push-to-talk. When push-to-talk is activated the microphone gets muted unless one of the configured buttons is pressed on one of the configured controllers.
• Left Controller: Configure the left controller for push-to-talk.
• Right Controller: Configure the right controller for push-to-talk.
• Show Notification: Shows a notification icon in the headset when push-to-talk is enabled a configured button is pressed.
• Profile: Allows to apply/define/delete push-to-talk profiles that save buttons, controller and notification settings.

- Revive Page:

The Revive page is only visible when the Revive overlay is installed. In case an installed Revive overlay is not correctly detected you can force the Revive page in the settings.

Any changes to controller settings are immediately applied by Revive (Requires Revive 1.0.4+).

• Render Target Override: Overrides the Oculus-side render target (aka supersampling). Enabling it prevents Oculus applications from dynamically modifying this value. Warning: Is applied on top of the SteamVR supersampling value. (pixelsPerDisplayPixel setting in the vrsettings file)
• Grip Button mode: Allows to set the grip button mode. (ToggleGrip setting in the vrsettings file)
• Deadzone: Allows to modify the simulated thumbsticks' deadzone. (ThumbDeadzone setting in the vrsettings file)
• Sensitivity: Allows to modify the simulated thumbsticks' sensitivity. (ThumbSensitivity setting the vrsettings file)
• Yaw: Allows to modify the simulated thumbsticks' yaw. (TouchYaw setting the vrsettings file)
• Pitch: Allows to modify the simulated thumbsticks' pitch. (TouchPitch setting the vrsettings file)
• Roll: Allows to modify the simulated thumbsticks' roll. (TouchRoll setting the vrsettings file)
• X: Allows to modify the simulated thumbsticks' x-offset. (TouchX setting the vrsettings file)
• Y: Allows to modify the simulated thumbsticks' y-offset. (TouchY setting the vrsettings file)
• Z: Allows to modify the simulated thumbsticks' z-offset. (TouchZ setting the vrsettings file)
• Controller Profile: Allows to apply/define/delete controller profiles that save the controller settings (grip button mode, deadzone, sensitivity, pitch/yaw/roll and x/y/z-offsets).

- 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.

• 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.

- 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.
• Dropped Frames: Number of frames dropped in the currently running application.
• Reprojected Frames: Number of frames reprojected in the currently running application.
• Reprojected Frames: Number of times the currently running application timed out.

- Settings Page:

• Autostart: Allows you to enable/disable auto start.
• Force Revive Page: Force the Revive page button on the root page to be visible.

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).

Known Bugs

• None yet.

License

This software is released under GPL 3.0.