ALVR - Air Light VR
ALVR is an open source remote VR display for Gear VR and Oculus Go/Quest. With it, you can play SteamVR games in your standalone headset.
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This repository is no longer maintained
This repository is not maintained for a long time.
Fork version is actively developed on the following repository.
Go is now supported on the repository as well as Quest/Quest2.
https://github.com/alvr-org/ALVR
For GearVR users: You can get unmaintained version on this repository (See below).
Description
ALVR streams VR display output from your PC to Gear VR / Oculus Go / Oculus Quest via Wi-Fi. This is similar to Riftcat or Trinus VR, but our purpose is optimization for Gear VR. ALVR provides smooth head-tracking compared to other apps in a Wi-Fi environment using Asynchronous Timewarp.
Note that many PCVR games require 6DoF controller or multiple buttons, so you might not able to play those games.
You can find playable games in List of tested VR games and experiences.
Requirements
ALVR requires any of the following devices:
- Gear VR
- Oculus Go
- Oculus Quest
|Device|Working?|
|---|---|
|Oculus Quest|OK(alpha)|
|Oculus Go|OK|
|GalaxyS9/S9+|OK|
|GalaxyS8/S8+|OK|
|Galaxy Note 8|OK|
|GalaxyS7|OK|
|GalaxyS6(Edge)|OK|
- High-end gaming PC
- with NVIDIA GPU which supports NVENC (Supported GPUs)
- (or with AMD GPU which supports AMF VCE)
- Windows 10 is recommended
- Currently only NVIDIA GPU is supported on Windows 7
- 802.11n/ac wireless or ethernet wired connection
- It is recommended to use 802.11ac for the headset and ethernet for PC
- You need to connect both to the same router
- SteamVR
Install ALVR server for PC
- Install SteamVR
- Download installer from Releases
- Run the installer
- Open ALVR Launcher
Install ALVR client for headset
For Quest: Install from apk
- Use https://github.com/alvr-org/ALVR instead.
- ~~Need to enable developer option for Quest.~~
- ~~Download apk from Releases~~
- ~~Check Installation.~~
~~For GearVR and Go: Oculus Store~~
- ~~You can download ALVR Client from Oculus Store with key.~~
- ~~Open the key distribution page on your smartphone and follow the instruction.~~
- ALVR is no longer available on Oculus Store. Use apk method instead. See issue 695
For GearVR: Install from apk
- It's a very complex method to install and I can't support it. Try googling for detail.
- Get osig file from oculus website
- Install Apk Editor
- Download apk from Releases
- Open apk and put osig file on assets folder
- Build and install
Usage
- Launch ALVR.exe
- Press "Start Server" button or launch VR game
- SteamVR's small window will appear. You should see a headset icon in the SteamVR status window that looks like a green block with a bold S in the middle
- Launch ALVR Client in your headset
- IP Address of headset will appear in the server tab of ALVR.exe
- Press "Connect" button
Troubleshoot
- If you got some error, please check Troubleshooting
Uninstallation
- Execute driver_uninstall.bat in the driver folder
- Delete the install folder (ALVR does not use the registry)
- If you already deleted the folder without executing driver_uninstall.bat:
- Open C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\openvr\openvrpaths.vrpath and check install directory
- Execute
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\SteamVR\bin\win32\vrpathreg.exe" removedriver (install folder)
in Command Prompt
Future work
- SteamVR dashboard to control ALVR
- Cloud streaming
Build
ALVR Server and GUI (Launcher)
- Open ALVR.sln with Visual Studio 2017 and build
- alvr_server project is the driver for SteamVR written in C++
- ALVR project is the launcher GUI written in C#
ALVR Client
- Clone ALVR Client
- Put your osig file on assets folder (only for Gear VR)
- Build with Android Studio
- Install apk via adb
License
ALVR is licensed under MIT License.
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