In this release we reached two important milestones! We have software video encoding on Windows and a fix for the jitter on Linux.
Changelog
- Add software encoding on Windows (by @ev1lbl0w)
- Used as fallback when the GPU does not support video encoding.
- Useful only if the CPU is powerful and recent enough.
- Fix video jitter on Linux (by @zarik5 with help from @ColdIce1605 and @ev1lbl0w)
- On Nvidia GPUs this fix works out of the box.
- On AMD GPUs you need to downgrade Mesa to 21.0. If you can’t downgrade Mesa and want to keep the previous behavior (jitter) you have to enable async reprojection in Settings->Video->Advanced options. Failing to do so will result in SteamVR crashing with error 307.
- Remove hand tracking pinch gestures (by @zarik5)
- Not very ergonomic and often activated by mistake.
- Fix chaperone rotating 180deg (by @zarik5)
- The chaperone shape will now always be rectangular and the center of the play space will be the center of the rectangle.
- The Tracking space setting is gone and local/stage tracking can be chosen by just setting a standing only/room scale guardian on the Quest.
- To choose the forward direction with the room scale guardian, redo the guardian setup and select “Confirm” when facing the preferred forward direction.
- Add JACK audio backend on Linux (by @zarik5)
- Select the backend under advanced settings.
- You may need to use Catia to configure JACK.
- Fix display timing for better head and controllers tracking (by @zarik5)
- Update scripts for Linux build (by @Trae32566)
- Remove dashboard warning banner (by @zarik5)
- Offer some features conditionally (by @zarik5)
- Many internal changes for future OpenXR support (by @zarik5)
- Official OpenXR support is getting closer, but in the meantime you can use this fork which is based on ALVR v17.
LICENSING NOTICE: From this release and forward, Windows binaries are distributed under the GPL license. If you want to build ALVR as MIT licensed do not use the —gpl flag, which will disable software encoding support. FFmpeg binaries are fetched from https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds