Scroll down and select show more if needed, finally select OVR Advanced Settings from the menu.Īgain your settings might be slightly different based off the profile you choose. Select SHOW OLD BINDING UI. On my screen it is in RED.ħ. Select Controllers and then Slide the slider to Show Advanced Settings at the Bottom.Ħ. Click the Hamburg menu (the 3 lines in the top left) on the Steam VR tiny Window popup on your PC shown above and select Settings from the drop down.ĥ. You can also do all this in VR if you want(the same settings exist in VR), but I’m doing it on your PC since you are likely following these instructions and need to see them.Ĥ. Go to your SteamVr Library and Launch OVR Advanced Settings in SteamVR. This little window (or similar) should pop up on your computer.ģ. Then on your Oculus Quest 2 headset via either Virtual Desktop or OculusLink, Start up SteamVR. This free app has Play Space Mover built into it.Ģ. You will need to install OVR Advanced Settings from Steam.Install Open VR Advanced Settings – Most of you will start here. An added benefit you will be able to use all the PC worlds and avatars. If you are not sure how to do either of those you can check here for Virtual Desktop or here for OculusLink.īecause we are using VRChat for this example, Install Steam VRChat and this is the one you will be using for VRChat from now on, not the one on the Quest 2 headset. – You need either Virtual Desktop installed on your Oculus Quest 2 and get it working with SteamVR on your PC or an OculusLink cable and OculusLink working and installed with Steam VR app. If you have that set up and working already you can skip this step. But fear not, we will do a workaround to get SteamVR working on your Oculus Quest 2 and then Playspace Mover can work once again! Get Your Oculus Quest 2 Able to Play SteamVR Gamesįirst of all you need your Oculus Quest 2 working with SteamVR. Any native Oculus apps, (those installed on your Oculus Quest 2 directly) will NOT work with Playspace Mover at this time…. 5 Final Thoughts On How to Install PlaySpace Moverīefore we get started, I need to make clear here that Playspace mover and Open VR Advanced Settings only works with SteamVR applications.3.1 Install Open VR Advanced Settings – Most of you will start here.2 Get Your Oculus Quest 2 Able to Play SteamVR Games.1 PlaySpace Mover ONLY works with SteamVR.You can find OVR Advanced Settings on Steam or Github.
If you happen to have an absurdly large play area for VR and/or a backpack PC we’d love to hear reports of how the software works. Nonetheless, it is notable the feature is broadly available now. The adjustment of the playspace at that setting also made me a bit uncomfortable. I tried it out in a 4 meter by 4 meter room on the strongest setting and the redirection wasn’t strong enough to enable me to, say, walk from the indoors to the outdoors of the standard SteamVR Home space. The problem with these methods is it typically requires extraordinarily large play spaces, and that appears to be true as well for the feature in OVR Advanced Settings. More traditionally, software could be made to nudge you away from the edges of your available virtual space without eye tracking by cleverly moving the placement of virtual doorways when you aren’t looking, or spacing out the nudges over a large enough area that you don’t notice. Some researchers, for instance, have looked into whether reliable high-quality eye tracking might be used to adjust a virtual world in between your blinks, or during the momentary adjustment period when your eyes shift position. The concept is traditionally restricted to labs and there are multiple research tracks exploring different approaches. The idea of “redirected walking” is for the geometry of a virtual environment to dynamically change to keep you within your physical playspace. The software’s latest update adds a new feature that might be interesting to explore if you have an extraordinarily large playspace - redirected walking. You can set supersampling values that can affect the sharpness of your picture or temporarily move or rotate your playspace and do a lot more. A major update to OVR Advanced Settings adds redirected walking to steer you toward the center of your play space and away from the edges of your room.įor those unfamiliar, OVR Advanced Settings adds a number of useful settings accessible via a dashboard while using Steam inside your VR headset.