We are excited to bring you our biggest update since launch!
We have rewritten the driver from scratch (over the last year), as well as 99% of the app code. This is finally allowing us to develop many new features and improvements, and today we are publishing just some of them.
New Features and improvements
- VR Overlay: Natural Locomotion can be used from the SteamVR overlay as well as from its window in the desktop.
- Buttonless armswing activator (just lowering your hands down to the hip)
This activator can be enabled from the "Configure buttons" section in the profile editor. It works like magic allowing to manipulate objects, fight with a sword, shoot with one hand while walking with the other... without pressing any button to enable the locomotion! Just lowering your hand down the hip to start moving.
After the first swing gesture under the hip height you can continue moving your arms for walking as usual even raising the hands over the hip level. For stop walking you only have to stop swinging your arms.
- Dark/Light themes
- Pimax support with all features tested with a Pimax Vision 5k Super
- Import/export profiles: The Import button is in the profiles list screen and the export button is in the profile editor
- Improved performance
- Natural Locomotion automatically enables The SteamVR option for allowing multiple tracking system devices (activateMultipleDrivers)
- Improved system to install the driver
- Improved remapping of the trackpad touch activator (Remap to trackpad click and passthrough pressing quickly)
Fixes
- Fixed some bugs related to Natural Locomotion tracker app support and the system to add the required rules to Windows Defended Firewall
- Fixed a bug which didn't allow to force running Oculus games forcing OpenVR after the first try
- Fixed lots of minor bugs and added some others (probably)
Temporarily disabled features
Some tools have been disabled temporarily but you can use the old version (legacy) until we add them back.
New profiles
- Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond (Vive, Index, Oculus, Cosmos)
- HINGE (Vive, Index, Oculus, Cosmos)
- Swordman VR (Vive, Index, Oculus, Cosmos)
- Failspace (Vive, Index, Oculus, Cosmos)
- Until You Fall (Cosmos)
- Swordsman VR (Vive, Index, Oculus, Cosmos)
Note: We are waiting to receive a HP Reverb G2 (Pre-ordered in July) to create the versions of the new profiles for WMR. Sorry for not including them in this update.
Fixed profiles
- Zero Caliber (Oculus, Index)
- POPULATION ONE (Vive)
How to switch to legacy branch (old version)
- Right click in Natural Locomotion from the Steam Library
- Click in Properties
- Go to BETAS section
- Select legacy branch from the list
What's coming next
- Re-enable SteamVR tools
- Detect game to auto start profiles
- Universal support for any SteamVR headset without explicit support on our side
- OpenComposite support
- iOS version of NaLo tracker
- Gamepad emulation
- Demo version with all features to use in games
- Steam cloud support
- Steam workshop support