AetherVR 2025-12-28

Features

• Added some support for macOS and Metal
• Releases now include Linux (x86-64) and macOS (arm64) builds
• AetherVR now uses SDL3 instead of OpenCV as the camera capture backend, which means that we can now enumerate all connected cameras with their names and resolutions
• Added a "smooth" hand tracking mode, which interpolates the tracking results from multiple frames
• Added a parameter for offsetting the Z position of the controllers
• The configuration is now saved between sessions

Fixes

• Fixed tracking problems when adding too much rotation to a controller
• Gestures are now tracked much more reliably when the hand is close to the camera or far away
• Fixed controller button presses not being registered in some applications
• An error message is now displayed if downloading MediaPipe ML models fails
• The application no longer crashes when no camera is connected

AetherVR 2025-07-12

Features

• Added an option to select the camera and to configure the capture resolution
• Added an option to configure the virtual controller rotation
• Added an option to configure a deadzone for the head rotation
• Added a dialog to confirm downloading the MediaPipe machine learning models
• Face landmarks are now displayed on the camera image
• Hand tracking has been slightly improved
• There is now an option to not bind a hand gesture to any button

Fixes

• Fixed D3D11 swapchain image clipping
• Fixed some minor bugs in the Vulkan graphics backend

AetherVR 2025-02-08

Features

• Swapchain images are now presented by directly sharing the GPU memory between runtime and tracker instead of copying them to the host
• The status bar now displays the name of the application, its graphics API and whether it uses OpenComposite
• Added a "middle pinch" gesture to trigger virtual thumbstick inputs
• Added a button to start and stop tracking
• Added a configuration option for limiting the number of camera frames processed per second
• Added a warning in the UI for using a runtime incompatible with the current tracker

Fixes

• Fixed head tracking breaking when the head is invisible for a few frames
• Fixed tracking state not being sent to the application occasionally
• Fixed some other minor things in the OpenXR runtime

AetherVR 2025-01-15

runtime: add experimental support for `XR_KHR_metal_enable`

AetherVR 2025-01-08

runtime: fix linux build errors

AetherVR 2024-12-18

tracker: add a button for setting aethervr as the openxr runtime

AetherVR 2024-12-08

workflows: downgrade relase workflow python version to 3.12

AetherVR 2023-12-30

adapt to generics syntax changes