Virtual Home Theater News

[h3]#1 Added support for hybrid graphics systems.[/h3]

Support the following laptops or desktop PCs configurations: iGPU+dGPU, iGPU and dGPU.



Report any issue to [email protected] You can rollback to the previous version v1.11.0

[h3]#2 Improved multi displays and ultra wide displays management.[/h3]
Added display centering, average centering and cps (captures frames per second)
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Updated the VR Controllers mapping for VHT: Valve Knuckles, Oculus Touch, HTC VIVE and HP Reverb G2
https://www.virtualhometheater.com/help/





Added new screen feature (vFoV) setting useful for ultra wide gaming.

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This beta version has a new desktop mirror mode module version (v2.0) with support for hybrid graphics systems, bug fixes and an improved multi displays and ultra wide displays management.

A hybrid graphics system is a computer architecture with two graphics processing units (an integrated GPU and a discrete GPU), each of them can have any number of displays connected.
A typical hybrid graphics system is a notebook with the LCD connected to the iGPU (Intel) and additional displays ports connected to the dGPU (AMD or NVIDIA).

Older versions of VHT were designed to run only on a non-hybrid graphics systems (desktop computers and some small number of notebooks).

If before this new beta version, VHT show these errors : "Init Desktop...FAILED" or "Create D3D11 Device #0...FAILED", now VHT should work on these systems, showing in desktop mirror mode all displays connected to notebook.

In case of a hybrid graphics system VHT will automatically select and use two GPUs in parallel: the integrated GPU for desktop mirroring and the more powerful discrete GPU for VR rendering and hardware video decoding.

If you encounter any issue with this beta version please send the log file to [email protected]

To access the beta version select the beta build branch.
How to guide:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/989060/discussions/0/2931238448331908695/

Updates:
24-Feb-2021 v1.12.1
7-Mar-2021 v1.12.2

On a notebook or desktop PC, VHT should:
1. start without errors
2. start desktop mirror mode without errors
3. in desktop mirror mode show all desktop screens (the notebook's display and all displays connected to notebook)

[h3]#1 Added fisheye lens projection.[/h3]

You can use this new feature to watch the 200° FoV Fisheye VR videos made with MKX200 and MKX22 fisheye lens or any type of lens and camera body combo.

All formats are supported: mono, stereo and 360°
All orientations are supported: front, top and down



The new mapping/projection module will cover all possible lens types:
- equidistant fisheye lens
- equisolid fisheye lens
- othographic fisheye lens
- stereographic fisheye lens
- thoby fisheye lens
- rectilinear normal lens
- MKX200 fisheye lens
- MKX22 fisheye lens
- custom lens


All lens corrections are done in real time using lens math equations to have a correct image projection in VR.

For advance users it is possible to correct the projected raw video image misalignment, frame coverage and optical axes alignment (360°) specific to each camera and lens assembly.


All these settings can be saved for each individual video file or as a preset for a lens and camera combo like: iZugar MKX200 + Sony A7 II, iZugar MKX200 + Z Cam E2, Z Cam K1, 220° + GoPro Hero 4 etc.

Two fisheye built-in presets are added:



The fisheye format is detected from the file name and image aspect ratio.
Keywords to have in the video file name: MKX200, MKX22, VR200, fisheye, etc.
If aspect ratio is: 1.0 => mono, >1.8 or _LR_, SbS keywords => stereo
Otherwise you need to set the correct settings manually.


[h3]#2 Patches[/h3]
- Fix VHT not starting on some systems when using WMR.
- Fix video preset not loading if there is only one video preset saved.

Added the option to deactivate the auto smooth-playback reset each time a new video is played.
This is useful to increase the HMD frame rate when using a high resolution HMD (Pimax 8K or HP Reverb G2) with high supersample and 7K/8K 60 fps 180/360 video playback.


Now the following settings can be saved as default:
- Video Auto Smooth-playback
- Video Smooth-playback
- Use mouse wheel volume only in cinema mode
- Subtitle show

Changing the settings without saving them will make them valid only for the current VHT session.

Click on the SAVE button from the lower right corner of GUI to save the setting as default for the next future VHT session.