SteamVR News

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Valve Index

• Index HMDs will be adjusted to a more neutral (less-blue) white point. Users relying on 3rd-party white-balance controls (ex: Advanced Settings) may now prefer to disable the external control.

The SteamVR beta has been updated with the following changes.

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:

• This change was actually missed in beta 1.6.5 and is in 1.6.6: Slight changes to errors 308, 309 to get more insight into the cases which are not fixed by the change mentioned above. If you experience these errors, please post to the SteamVR Bug Report with a system report.
• Fix a rare case where SteamVR would stop working after a prolonged period of high CPU load.
  
• Fix an assertion in vrmonitor when exiting without ever discovering an HMD.
  

The SteamVR beta has been updated with the following changes.

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:

• Fix one known cause of error 310 (believed to be some non-SteamVR process named “vrserver.exe” being mis-detected as an existing SteamVR session). Fixed thanks to a report in the bug report forum!
• Slight changes to errors 308, 309 to get more insight into the cases which are not fixed by the change mentioned above. If you experience these errors, please post to the SteamVR Bug Report with a system report.

Valve Index Controller Firmware:

• Fixed an issue where initiating pairing just after powering on the controller could result in a power off.
  
• Fixed an issue that could prevent pairing to a new wireless receiver until a power cycle.
  

The SteamVR beta has been updated with the following changes.

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.

SteamVR:

• Fixed Steam crash when using a driver that uses an old version of the driver interface and provides “wake on button press” functionality.
  
• Split remaining Error 308 cases into 308 and 310 to try to narrow down the possible cause. Users with error 308 (or 310!) invited to post to the forum linked above with a system report to help us diagnose this issue.
  

SteamVR Input:

• Fixed issue with some bindings not loading because they were confused about what application they belong to. This would have mostly affected developers.
  

Valve Index Controllers

• Fixed a skeletal system issue where the thumb would not respond when the thumbstick is moved but no touch is detected.
  

SteamVR Home

• Fixed Rift S controllers from showing up as an avatar option for users with other actual controllers
  

The SteamVR beta has been updated with the following changes.

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.

SteamVR Input

• Fixed issue introduced in 1.6.2 that prevented SteamVR from loading bindings that contained references to extra action sets.
  

Linux

• Use the host's zenity program when available for basic dialogs during startup