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Glossary:Virtual reality headset

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Graphics and video

Resolutions

Video settings

Hardware

For a list of games, see List of VR games.

General information

Virtual Reality on Wikipedia
Virtual Reality headset on Wikipedia

Key points

Virtual reality (VR in short) means simulated enviroment experienced by user, with PC gaming, this means usage of virtual reality headset with games. This replaces monitor as window for the game and places the player inside the game instead.

General

Current standards that are being utilized by the games are following:

Currently compatibility is up to what standard the game is utilizing and what headsets the standard supports. With compatibility layers, it is possible to make game use another standard or headset to work with another standard, but compatibility is not always quaranteed.

OpenXR is standardization effort to fix this fragmentation. Stable version was released in July 29, 2019, meaning adaptation will take for a while

Software

Official software

SteamVR

Steam is required to install the software, however Steam is not required to run SteamVR.

Oculus

Oculus or Facebook account is required.

Mixed Reality Portal

Windows 10 is required.

OSVR HDK

Natively supports SteamVR.

Compatibility layers

Revive

Open source.
Compatibility layer to play Oculus games using SteamVR compatible headset.
Supports OpenXR but can can be used in combination of other compatibility layers e.g. WMR for SteamVR to play Oculus games.

Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR

Free.
Compatibility layer to use any Windows Mixed Reality headset with SteamVR.

RiftCat VRidge

Shareware.
Allows utilizing mobile VR headsets as SteamVR compatible headset.

Trinus

Shareware.
Allows using Google Cardboard, Daydream or PlayStation VR headset as SteamVR compatible headset.

VR drivers

VR drivers mean software which can take games designed to be played with traditional monitor and make them playable with VR headsets, including stereoscopic vision and head movement.

vorpX

Commercial.

Vireio Perception

Currently only games using DirectX 9 are supported.
Has not been updated since 2016, no compatibility with newer headsets.

Other software

OpenVR Advanced Settings Overlay

OpenVR-InputEmulator

List of VR headsets and peripherals

SteamVR

Oculus

Windows Mixed Reality

Open Source VR

Sony Playstation

Mobile


References