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April 18, 2016

Use your Razer Hydra in SteamVR

This is a project I created to implement support for Razer Hydra motion controllers in the official OSVR-SteamVR plugin, which originally only supported the OSVR HDK headset. The main goal is to have Vive wands in SteamVR emulated by the Hydra, while using an Oculus headset, so we can play games that require motion tracked controllers, without a Vive of course. :smile: 

The driver still needs a lot more development. Motion tracking and buttons already work perfectly, but some functionality is missing due to OSVR's implementation of the hydra. This leads to some games not working properly, like being unable to throw the stick to the robot doggie in The Lab, which is our main concern now :)

In case you have a hydra, you should definitely give this a try. Also support for other OSVR controllers is coming, along with PS Move support.

More information, source code, downloads, etc available here: https://github.com/betavr/SteamVR-OSVR/wiki

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    Cman1468
    New Participant
    May 7, 2016

    betavr said:

    So this project is now suspended since Valve released source code that provides hydra support in SteamVR, without the need for OSVR. For more information, binaries, etc check out the my fork's wiki page: https://github.com/betavr/steamvr_driver_hydra/wiki


    Are you still working on getting the PS Move to work in SteamVR?
    Cman1468
    New Participant
    May 7, 2016

    TFS_ALU said:

    Not sure what's going on with my system but here is the rundown. I have windows 10. All my steam games and tools are installed on my D drive. SteamVR finds my oculus camera and headset, but won't recognize my hydras regardless of port change. I followed the guide to the Teee and nothing has worked. I even tried to manually copy the hydra_drivers to the steamVR driver folder in my D drive, but nothing happened. Have any suggestions?


    I have no clue if this will help you, but for some reason in my Steam common folder, my SteamVR folder is called OpenVR. Try installing the drivers to there if you have it
    betavrAuthor
    Up and Coming
    May 7, 2016
    Nope, I don't have a Move unfortunately. But there is someone working on it: http://forum.quackvr.com/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=196
    betavrAuthor
    Up and Coming
    May 7, 2016

    TFS_ALU said:

    Not sure what's going on with my system but here is the rundown. I have windows 10. All my steam games and tools are installed on my D drive. SteamVR finds my oculus camera and headset, but won't recognize my hydras regardless of port change. I followed the guide to the Teee and nothing has worked. I even tried to manually copy the hydra_drivers to the steamVR driver folder in my D drive, but nothing happened. Have any suggestions?


    Check if your steamvr.vrsettings contains the allowMultipleDrivers line. If not, replace it with the vrsettings file from the hydra install directory.
    Anonymous
    May 25, 2016
    God damn if only this could work. Tried all versions of the hydra driver but it wont get recognized by SteamVR.
    Anonymous
    May 25, 2016

    Tykjen said:

    God damn if only this could work. Tried all versions of the hydra driver but it wont get recognized by SteamVR.


    Solved! I was just not reading things correctly. I copied the hydra file steamvr.settings over to Steam/config folder and overwrote the default one. Kudos!
    space123321
    Up and Coming
    July 7, 2016
    I am at a loss - everything was working fine and a great experience... now I plug in my hydra and SteamVR does not recognise it...  I have uninstalled and reinstalled with no luck...  any ideas?
    betavrAuthor
    Up and Coming
    July 8, 2016
    Did you check vrserver.txt (in steam\logs) for errors?
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