SteamVR News

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SteamVR:

• Allow users to spawn non-overlapped windows.
  
• Improved handling of users minimizing windows with an active window view.
  

Per-application Video Settings:

• Override World Scale: Added “fine” and “extreme” slider ranges.
  
• Reorganized layout, and marked certain settings as advanced or hidden if not applicable (e.g. Legacy Reprojection Mode is only shown if Advanced settings are enabled, but is also hidden if using an Oculus or WMR headset where that setting does not have any affect).
  

OpenXR:

• Hand tracking extension now uses unobstructed/open hand motion range as default.
  
• Implemented Hand tracking extension for “with motion controller” poses (new in OpenXR 1.10.16)
  
• Eliminated long delay before returning failure when an OpenXR app inside an app container calls xrCreateInstance but SteamVR isn't running.
  

Per-application Video Settings:

• Field of View – Allows trading off peripheral vision for increased clarity (e.g. reading glasses). This works by using the same total render resolution to draw only a smaller subset of the scene.
  
  
  
  
• Override World Scale – Enables adjusting the perceived scale of the world (e.g. to get the size of an aircraft cockpit to feel just right, or help short people reach tall places).
  
  

Note: In both cases, applications may cache values related to these features, and therefore may need to be relaunched for new settings to be fully applied properly. WMR headset users will need to opt into the beta version of Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR.

If you have feedback on either of these, please post in the Feature Requests & Suggestions forum.

If you encounter issues with this update, please post in the SteamVR Bug Report forum. If possible, please include a system report to aid in tracking down your issue. Replies to this post are not tracked for bug reporting purposes. Please use the forum linked above to report issues.

SteamVR:

• Added ability to reposition docked views on controllers.
  

If you encounter issues with this update, please post in the SteamVR Bug Report forum. If possible, please include a system report to aid in tracking down your issue. Replies to this post are not tracked for bug reporting purposes. Please use the forum linked above to report issues.

Vulkan

• Fixed 32bit Vulkan applications intermittently failing to submit textures.
  

If you encounter issues with this update, please post in the SteamVR Bug Report forum. If possible, please include a system report to aid in tracking down your issue. Replies to this post are not tracked for bug reporting purposes. Please use the forum linked above to report issues.

SteamVR:

• Disable window resizing and minimizing when window view has focus.
  
• Improved warning text for rare (display related) headset error.
  

OpenXR:

• xrCreateSwapchain will now return XR_ERROR_SWAPCHAIN_FORMAT_UNSUPPORTED if the provided swapchain format is not on the list of enumerated formats.
  
• Added support for XR_COMPOSITION_LAYER_UNPREMULTIPLIED_ALPHA_BIT
  
• Added support for XR_COMPOSITION_LAYER_BLEND_TEXTURE_SOURCE_ALPHA_BIT