ALVR v20.0.0 contains the long awaited OpenXR support and a new dashboard! Both of these features were years in the making.
Changes
- New OpenXR-based client, add support for Vive Focus 3/XR Elite, Pico 4/Neo 3 and YVR 1/2. Worked on by:
- New egui (OpenGL) dashboard
- The launcher is replaced by the new dashboard executable.
- by @Kirottu #1247 #1274, @zarik5, @m00nwtchr #1292, @TheComputerNerd88 #1574 #1575 #1576 1582
- Add position and rotation recentering modes (by @zarik5 #1321)
- Defaults to local floor and local yaw.
- Add support for eye and face tracking (by @zarik5 #1577)
- Currently supporting VRChat Eye OSC, VRCFaceTracking support coming soon
- Add support for semi-automatic installation on Linux using Distrobox (by @Meister1593 #1662)
- Reduce game rendering latency (by @zarik5)
- Apply some settings in real-time (by @zarik5 #1635)
- New more consistent controller prediction algorithm (by @zarik5 #1561)
- Controller input fixes (by @zarik5 #1560)
- Soft-toggle controllers at runtime (by @galister #1600)
- New wiki hosted in the main git tree (by @m00nwtchr #1309)
- Send client log to streamer (by @zarik5)
- Encoder improvements (by @nowrep #1562 #1565 #1568, @deiteris #1403 #1422 #1400 #1402, @zarik5 #1564)
- Remove Forward Error Correction (by @zarik5: #1384, #1389; @deiteris: #1386, #1387, #1390)
- Unified code for NAL parsing (by @deiteris #1403, #1422, #1400, #1402)
- Some tweaks for alvr_client_core compatibility (by @ShootingKing-AM #1580 #1578 #1586 #1624 #1621)
- Fix server build with clang (by @nowrep)