Glossary:Virtual reality headset

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Graphics and video

Resolutions

• Widescreen resolution
• Multi-monitor
• Ultra-widescreen
• 4K Ultra HD
• Custom resolution
• Scaling

Video settings

• Field of view (FOV)
• Windowed / borderless fullscreen
• Anisotropic filtering (AF)
• Anti-aliasing (AA)
• High-fidelity upscaling
• Vertical sync (Vsync)
• Frame rate (FPS)
• High dynamic range (HDR)
• Ray tracing (RT)
• Color blind mode

Hardware

• Graphics card
• Variable refresh rate (VRR)
• Virtual reality (VR) headset

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.

General

There are four standards when it comes down to VR headset support on PC: Steam VR (also known as OpenVR, not to be confused with OSVR), Oculus, Open Source VR (aka OSVR) and Windows Mixed Reality. Games can utilize multiple standards, however games only utilizing other standard and using the headset with the other standard requires usage of compatibility layer.

Software

Compatibility layers

Revive

Compatibility layer to play Oculus games using Steam VR compatible headset.

Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR

Compatibility layer to use any Windows Mixed Reality headset with Steam VR.

RiftCat VRidge

Allows utilizing mobile VR headsets as Steam VR compatible headset.

Trinus

Allows using Google Cardboard, Daydream or PlayStation VR headset as Steam VR 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.

Vireio Perception

Currently only games using DirectX 9 are supported.

List of VR headsets and peripherals

Steam VR

• HTC Vive
  • Vive Controller
  • Vive Tracker
• Valve Index
  • Valve Index Controller

Oculus

• Oculus Rift
• Oculus Rift S
• Oculus Quest
  • Oculus Touch
• Oculus Go (Mobile)

Windows Mixed Reality

• Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headset
• Dell Visor
• HP Windows Mixed Reality Headset
• Lenovo Explorer
• Samsung HMD Odyssey
• Asus Windows Mixed Reality Headset
• Samsung HMD Odyssey+
• Acer OJO 500

Sony Playstation

• PlayStation VR
  • PlayStation Move
  • PlayStation VR Aim Controller

Mobile

• Google Cardboard
• Google Daydream
• Samsung Gear VR