WayVR v26.7.0

Greetings from the WayVR team!

We're excited to bring you a number of new features and improvements. We hope it'll be a worthy upgrade for your VR experience. We are getting closer and closer to our dream of being able to run any app inside the virtual environment of WayVR.

Since the last release, we've also made an OpenCollective page.
If this project has brought you joy and you can afford, please consider throwing some coffee money at us.
https://opencollective.com/wayvr-org

What's new since 26.2.1:

• Welcome screen / tutorial
  • You might see if after updating. Don't get spooked!
• New OpenXR bindings UI under Settings/Controls
• New Speech-to-text feature (mic icon on taskbar)
  • Transcribes text for you ask you speak.
  • Allows pasting to your real desktop, WayVR native apps and OSC chatbox
    • WayVR apps with Compatibility Mode are WIP.
  • This uses Whisper (an AI model) on your GPU.
  • It will use some VRAM depending on your selection.
  • Opt-in by default, the model gets unloaded after 5 mins.
• Improvements to the WayVR Wayland compositor (aka running apps inside WayVR)
  • Severely improved stability & compatibility for apps launched in WayVR native mode.
    • Chromium, Firefox, LibreOffice, Blender, GIMP, InkScape, etc tested to work well!
    • Steam and most games work, too! However, xwayland-satellite must be installed.
    • Some games may not like absolute mouse (laser pointers) and may have issues.
  • Resizable WayVR application windows via edit mode. not just scale anymore!
    • Not all apps like to be resized; please respect their feelings.
• Playspace mover gravity
• Skymap catalog
  • Allows downloading new skyboxes from an online catalog.
  • If you're interested in contributing skymaps, contact us!
• Chroma key pass-through support for WiVRn
• Quality-of-Life improvements:
  • Overlay windows no longer spawn in the same spot and clip into each other.
  • wayvrctl now allows sending pointer actions for people who want to interact with overlays without controllers or hand tracking
  • Added --wait argument which lets you launch WayVR before launching Monado / WiVRn / SteamVR. It will just wait until VR is available before starting.
  • Static overlays are now saved in world space; they'll stay in place as long as your playspace stays the same
  • Add option to turn off watch (@art0007i)
  • Keyboard button "Map" to reload keymap. Press after changing language on your real keyboard
  • Localized date and time (@Earthgames)
  • Resetting playspace now uses the last fix floor height
  • Add popups for when UInput is not set up correctly (@shocktail39)
  • Force save overlays when exiting edit mode
  • Grid opacity option (@openglfreak)
• Bug fixes/improvements:
  • Fix mouse input on Hyprland (and possible other desktop). (@SparkyTD)
    • Switch Input emulation method (Misc settings) to Wayland Virtual
  • OpenVR-related fixes (@ImSapphire)
  • OpenXR input blocking fixes (@ImSapphire)
  • Fix popups for screen selection instructions
  • OpenXR space rotate fixes (@Snemby)
  • Input blocking fixes
  • Fixed stability issues with Screencopy capture (@hiinaspace)
  • Fixed global (aka always visible) overlays not saving
  • Fixed grab help panel scale drift
  • Fixed some icons not following theme color