OVR Advanced Settings news & patch notes

Why?

What's Going to Change?

Thank You

5.8.9

Fixes

Previous (5.8.*)

Features

Fixes

Misc

5.8.6

Feedback

Bug Fixes

Misc:

Known Issues:

5.8.3

Features

Bug Fixes

Misc

Known Issues

WMR support

Space Drag Guide

Feature Overview Guide

Binding/Action Guide

• Updated SteamVR Libraries to 1.26.7
• Updated The Camera Options in steamvr tab
• Changed Behavior of Space Drag to ignore invalid play area error, as some setups the play area is not properly reported to steamvr
• Fixed some issues with Space drag moving your position to the wrong area in seated games

5.7.0 Patch Notes

Features

Bug Fixes

5.6.2 Is Out!

Features

Face Lift

Per App Bindings

• Enable Per-App Bindings via Checkbox
• Select Application you want to select Bindings for:
  • Some Common Overlays and their App ID's (not affiliated, just for reference)
  • (default) OVR Advanced Settings = steam.overlay.1009850
  • OVR Toolkit = steam.overlay.1068820
  • XSOverlay =steam.overlay.1173510
  • Desktop + = steam.overlay.1494460
  • fpsVR = steam.overlay.908520
  • LIV = steam.overlay.755540
• Start Application You want to set a Binding For
• Adjust Binding as desired
• Save Binding for Current Game, or as a Default (applies if no game found)

Possible Fix for Space Drag not working Issues

5.6.0 Beta is here and we need you! (seriously please come test)

This is a beta you need to opt in to beta branch

Features

Face Lift

Per App Bindings

• Enable Per-App Bindings via Checkbox
• Select Application you want to select Bindings for:
  • Some Common Overlays and their App ID's (not affiliated, just for reference)
  • (default) OVR Advanced Settings = steam.overlay.1009850
  • OVR Toolkit = steam.overlay.1068820
  • XSOverlay =steam.overlay.1173510
  • Desktop + = steam.overlay.1494460
  • fpsVR = steam.overlay.908520
  • LIV = steam.overlay.755540
• Start Application You want to set a Binding For
• Adjust Binding as desired
• Save Binding for Current Game, or as a Default (applies if no game found)

Possible Fix for Space Drag not working Issues

New Features

Device Pairing

Space Drag Multiplier

Auto-Apply Chaperone

Settings Removal

• Enable Seated Motion
• Enable Un-Cal Motion
• OpenXR Fix

• Adjust Chaperone

Fixes

• Fixed battery indicator for Tundra Trackers
• Fixed an Issue causing some long identifiers to make device pairing information text overlap
• Added another digit of precision to fling multiplier to be more in line with the rest of the page

New Things

Device Pairing Information

• In SteamVR tab There is now a "Device Information" tab
• this tab Displays the Amount of SteamVR dongles you have and in-use, as well as to what dongle the Controller/Tracker Is Bound to.
• We Currently Recognize 2 unique types of dongles headset and Tundra, all other dongles are seen as standard dongle These are tested to include HTC's and converted steam controller dongles.
• If you have other Types of Dongles, and would like to run some tests to see if we can uniquely identify those as well please reach out.

Apply Offset Keybind

• New Keybind to apply Offsets

OpenXR patch

• Added option in Settings to Enable better Support for OpenXR
• Note: This is a work-around forcing the tracking universe to be "standing" on our end, it will change in the Future

Uncalibrated Motion

• Added option in Settings to Allow motion while in uncalibrated playspace
• Note: This is for the hybrid tracking/non-steamVR Users that have issues using Space Drag, Enabling should allow these users to use it without issue.

Changes

• Force changed Default state of Chaperone Auto-Recovery to Off, and Inverted display in Settings Menu.

• Fixed Render bug with nothing showing up if clicking on icon, If you still have issues with this please reach out to us
• Increased Compatibility with Other Overlay Applications for Brightness/Color Overlays, (they should now Render on Top of all other overlays

Exclusive Input

Summary:

How to Use:

• Turn Exclusive Input Toggle on in the Settings Tab of OVRAS
• Go To Bindings, and bind the "exclusive input Toggle" action in the "System" tab.
• Press the binding to Toggle between Game input (always in this mode on startup) and OVRAS input.

Devil in the Details:

• Actions from OVRAS in the "System" Tab will ALWAYS work, while in OVRAS mode they will also block input, but while in game mode they will work along with w/e the game's binding is.
• Only Keys that have an action will be blocked, If you want to block all Input, you will need empty actions/bindings or an actual binding on every key.
• Caution: I would recommend leaving at least one trigger unbound, as it will block (while in OVRAS mode) trigger from interacting with the dashboard.
• Inter-operability with other applications will vary, But co-priority should be possible with other applications that use our same value (0x01000001)

New Action:

• Exclusive Input Toggle: This toggles between the Game Input and OVRAS input, while the exclusive input is turned on in OVRAS's Settings.

View Ratcheting:

Summary:

How to Use:

• Enable View Ratcheting in the rotation tab
• Adjust value to desired range 0.05 is default, slider goes from 0->0.10 (direct Text input up to 1.0)

Keyboard Custom Input Update

• Added \\ via BACKSLASH

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with keyboard Parser not holding modifier keys in the right order
• Fixed an issue with Brightness option in Video Tab, Direct Text Input will now allow Inputs down to 3% (very dark) slider remains unchanged at 10% minimum
• Changed how vestibular motion works, will now only work while +- 70 degrees from forward via hmd, preventing it from activating if you are moving side-to-side or similiar
• Adjusted Default values for vestibular motion and Auto-turn smooth speed.
• fixes a bug that would spam log if you had a setting that did not have a default value.

Misc.

Documentation

Bug Fixes

Bug Fixes

Chaperone Losing position

Changes to Rotation Counter (effects center marker as well)

Misc

Linux Fixes

Summary

I don't know how to use the existing keyboard features

But Don't Miss

New Experimental Features

• Disable Oculus SDK (will need a restart) - should disable games from running on the Oculus SDK and allowing you to run all your (Steam) games in SteamVR mode!
• Force Use Native Chaperone - Simply put this allows you to use SteamVR's chaperone, regardless of what system you are using!

Patch Notes:

New Features

Bug Fixes

Documentation Updates

Donation DLC's are now available

What does this Mean for the app? and the Future.

• The App will Remain FREE
• We are not going to lock features of the app behind pay-walls
• In short these are 100% donations, that offer no benefits other than supporting us.

Links

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an Issue where the center marker turn indicator did not properly update

New Features

• Added the ability to reset all of the SteamVR settings by starting with the "--reset-steamvr-settings" launch option
• Added the ability in Settings to Force you to use Steam's chaperone regardless of HMD, this feature is very experimental, and needs to be flushed out

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug effecting some chaperone profiles not properly saving, you may need to create a new profile if yours are suffering the issue
• Fixed the new Center Marker Not Properly following when rotating Playspaces
• Fixed an issue with Legacy Center Marker Buttons
• Fixed a bug with premade key combos that required holding one key did not work correctly

Linux Bug Fixes

• Fixed a linux bug with custom keybind input
• Fixed a segfault issue with Manjaro - may still be some scaling issues with Manjaro.

Doc/UI Updates

• Clarified Naming of Various Rotation Methods in app
• Clarified Instructions regarding OpenGL GPU in readme
• Added a Scroll bar to Settings page, will need to be flushed out and cleaned up, but there are a few configs where you might need it currently.

The important Stuff

New Features

• Added Chaperone Color Controls
• Added Chaperone Style Control
• Added Chaperone Floor bound Control
• Added New Center Marker (tells rotation + moves w/ space adjustments)
• Added Reset Orientation button for center marker (this is same counter as in statistics)
• Added New Sound Effects.
• Brightness Overlay Can now be reduced to 3% via direct text input.

Bug Fixes

5.0.2

• Fixes Profile Names for Offset and Video Profiles (no more ghost names)
• Fixes chaperone crash recovery causing undefined behavior
• Fixes Disable chaperone initialization issues.

5.0.1

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue w/ default state of brightness overlay Being too dark
• Set minimum brightness of brightness overlay so you should still be able to see even at lowest
• Adds a shutdown button for OVRAS to settings tab (just closes OVRAS)
• Altered Default Value of De-tangle Angle to be more aggressive
• Adjusted Slider behavior for auto-turn speed now maxes out at 900, and increments by 10 deg
• Adjusted Name of Auto-turn to add more clarity (may change in future)
• Fixed a redirected walking bug caused by copy/paste error
• Fixed a redirected walking error where interframe arc-length was calculated wrong, leading to under-estimation
• Fixed an issue where seated re-center button would be hidden

OVR Advanced Settings 5.0.0 Release

This Update is a Breaking change, Please follow instructions below If you have previously installed stand-alone.

This update WILL reset your current settings

• They CANNOT be trivially saved and updated

This update WILL break your Saved Keybinds

• They WILL have to be remade

This update WILL change the name from Advanced Settings to OVR Advanced Settings In the Steam Keybing issues.

You MUST un-install the current version before installing the new version.

Automatically

• Simply run the un-installer
• delete install directory
• (optional) delete logs and settings %appdata%/AdvancedSettings-Team by default

Semi-manually

• Run AdvancedSettings.exe with the command --force-remove-manifest
• delete install directory
• (optional) delete logs and settings %appdata%/AdvancedSettings-Team by default

manually

• go to steam install/config directory (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\config by default)
• edit the appconfig.json to remove the path pointed to Advanced Settings ("C:\\Program Files\\OpenVR-AdvancedSettings\\manifest.vrmanifest" by default)
• delete install/setting/log file manually

What's New?

• Auto Turn
  • This Feature automatically rotates you to allow you to walk in a single direction forever in games by rotating the world around you as you near walls.
    • important - This feature does not handle playspaces with wall corners greater than 180 degrees well.
  • There are many options available, and it will require some tweaking to get it how you like it.
  • Read Patch Notes or documentaiton for more information
• Redirected Walking
  • This Feature automatically steers you away from the edge of your play area by encouraging you to walk towards the middle of your play area.
    • important to give you reasonable additional "length" of your playspace, you will need a very large area or it will be quite a noticeable.
  • This feature is independent of Auto-Turn, and can be used to extend your percieved length of your area, i.e. a 2m x 2m playspace may feel more like a 2.5m x 2.5m
  • Read Patch Notes or documentaion for more information.

Some Things have moved

• Snap, Smooth, and Space Turn have been moved to the new Rotation Tab
• In Bindings the simulated clicks have been moved to a new tab called system
• In Bindings the PTT has been moved to a new tab called system
• The Prox Sensor, and Haptic Actions have been hidden from end-user
  • They are bound by default, and should not be adjusted.

New Features

• Rotation Tab feilen UI by ykeara
  • Auto-Turn - Automatically rotates you to allow you to walk in a single direction forever in games by rotating the world around you as you near walls.
    • optionally this feature will also try to direct you so that you will untangle your cord as well.
    • important - This feature does not handle playspaces with wall corners greater than 180 degrees well.
  • redirected - walking - Automatically steers you away from the edge of your play area by encouraging you to walk towards the middle of your play area.
    • Important - This requires a VERY large playspace to be imperceptible, its best use is for extending your perceived length of your play area slightly.
• Friction - when using Space Drag features. A value of 100% will bring the user to a full stop within roughly 1 second. The max value is 999% and min is 0%. Most useful values should be found within the range of 20%~80%. - kung
• Push-To-Mute icon - Added another image to show when using PTM, to reduce confusion. - username223
• Oculus Default Bindings - Added default Bindings for Oculus Touch controllers - ykeara

New Actions (keybinds)

• Auto-Turn Toggle - Toggles auto-turn feature on/off
  • In motion tab/action set

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash When Using QT 5.14.0 (both Windows and Linux) - username223
• Fixed the issue releated to keyboard showing up "behind" the overlay - ykeara
• Fixed some error messages caused by badly formed default bindings - ykeara

Linux

• OpenVR Advanced Settings can now be found on the Arch User Repository for Arch/Manjaro users. - username223
• Added support for getting switching Mic Devices and volumes in Linux.

Misc

• Fixed (un)-Installer to remove all files in the install directory (not settings/Logs) - ykeara
• Updated to OVR 1.10.30
• Various back-end optimizations/changes

Fixed In Beta

• Fixed Non-Bool Settings not saving - ykeara
• Fixed some formatting in Rotation Tab - ykeara
• Fixed some issues in Rotation Tab from some Text Boxes not taking Direct Input - ykeara reported by open beta testers
• Temporarily Disabled Chaperone Profiles Ability to Set Floor Bounds always on. - ykeara
• Updated Action Sets -> New Action Set System, and hid the haptic action set.- ykeara
• Fixed Default Brightness Settings - ykeara
• Set Seated Re-Center Button to always show in offsets tab - ykeara reported by reddit
• Steam Linux Build - username223
• Steam Linux Manifest Issues - username223 + feilen reported by closed beta testers

Known Issues

• Some features of Chaperone profiles are not actually saved/set properly
• disable Chaperone is not properly initialized at startup
• Some setups will have issues loading chaperone profiles.
• Direct Text Input in Linux is auto-repeating.
• Not all audio features are implemented yet in Linux.