Changelog Shadow VR Alpha 3.2.4 / 1407

Quest 2 - Updated from Sidequest - had a stuck purple linear landscape opening screen after starting ShadowVR. Uninstalled/Reinstalled new ShadowVR. Also had a stuck screen... quit and restarted ShadowVR successfully into SteamVR. SteamVR still had some jitter but not as much as yesterday. Overall experience was slower but will try again later. No Man’s Sky was not playable.

UPDATE 

After a few trys I'm now landing on a light blue screen as steam vr seems to refuse launching?

Would it be possible if you are working in the same environment to have a another Shadow client up at the same time as the VR client? It would allow desktop access to troubleshoot issues while keeping Shadow VR focus solely inside VR.

Hey thanks for all the hard work once again! 
 

Ever since this update I haven’t been able to get in once. It just gets stuck at “update in progress” sometimes 70% lately it just doesn’t go up at all. I’m running it on Quest 1 and I uninstalled the client and redownloaded it from side quest 

I can’t wait for the Quest 2 version of Shadow VR. 

Hello everyone,

We are releasing several modifications to the Shadow VR (Alpha) app today.  Get yourself the updated version on Sidequest now.

This release is focused on fixing launch issues. We want to make it more reliable to get into SteamVR without experiencing difficulties (mostly crashes and reboots).

Changelog:

Reworked Shadow VR launch
With this reworked launch cycle we believe there should not be anymore occurrences of users landing on a zoomed-in 2D desktop screen with the SteamVR monitoring panel running instead of the SteamVR home as expected anymore.

This should also reduce the number of users being stuck on ‘’Starting Shadow VR’’
We believe with these changes the following reports should have been dealt with :)

• Shadow VR Alpha can't start streaming 1487

• Everything is set up properly but no head tracking or stereoscopic 1507

• Shadow VR refuses to start 1512

• App hangs on starting Shadow VR 1530
   

There might still be some remaining cases of users stuck on ‘’Starting Shadow VR’ which we will fix in a future update. This one has a completely different root cause and could not be addressed in this build.

We have also released fixes for the following issues:

• Launching Shadow (when shutdown) several times in a row from within the Shadow VR (Alpha) client is now possible without going through 5 to 10 min crashes and update

• Launching Shadow VR (Alpha) for the first time should not longer result in a guaranteed crash

Vibrations / Haptic feedback 

Vibrations / Haptic feedback have now been implemented!
From now on, it’ll work like on a local PCVR experience or on your local Quest apps :)

Next steps:

• We have noticed a tremendous amount of people trying very hard to make it work on Oculus Quest 2. While we salute your perseverance and ingenuity (setting the IPD on lowest), we really feel bad for you guys, so we will put some time into officially supporting Shadow VR on Quest 2.

• Other than that, our full focus will be on improving head movement fluidity as it stands very clearly as our top offender in terms of in-VR experience. We have some leads that we are working on.

• As for Quality of life improvements, we know the hassle it is to switch from desktop apps to ShadowVR (Alpha) at the moment. We also know it’s a source of bugs. We plan to merge our VR environment with our main one so that you can switch from our alpha desktop clients to ShadowVR way faster than today.

We have updated our list of known issues and planned feature with this release’s content so you can follow up our progress.

And keep sharing your feedback and bug reports in the appropriate forum section, it really helps!

Raph