AC VR Hub
How a game gets from your shelf into the headset, how the Hub works as a panel inside SteamVR, the VR pinball launcher, and how each console is turned into OpenXR.
Point the Hub at your ROM, disc and PC game folders. Supported files are matched by archive metadata, disc identity or a system-specific name check and read where they are. Game files are never downloaded.
WorkingSome catalog entries have an install.toml for a supported upstream build. Most systems still need a separately prepared emulator or launcher folder; Set-up finds those inputs and does not build them.
For supported installation recipes, receipts and hashes record what the Hub installed. This does not manage emulator builds or launcher folders prepared separately.
WorkingThe Hub is the only front door. It starts Model 2, Model 3 and Time Crisis itself, and the other systems through launchers kept in your own play folder, each with its views.
WorkingThe VR setup owns the OpenXR session while you play. Quit and you are back in the Hub. Three games are accepted in the headset so far; most work in offline proofs.
In progressThe Hub renders off screen and is handed to SteamVR as a dashboard overlay: a Steam-like grid of system tabs with a game page.
WorkingThe Hub keeps its own SteamVR manifest with absolute paths, so the tab registers every time. Whenever SteamVR runs, the Hub attaches itself as the panel.
WorkingOpen the SteamVR dashboard and pick the Hub tab; your controller's laser clicks and the stick scrolls a row at a time. SteamVR keeps B while the dashboard is open, so the panel has its own large Back button.
WorkingPlay runs the same launch service as the desktop Hub, with a guard against double presses. Steam library shortcuts launch the same game and view.
WorkingThe game opens in VR without taking the headset off. Quit and you are back in SteamVR, ready to pick the next one.
In progressBring your own Visual Pinball X, the BGFX build 10.8.1. The Hub never downloads it.
WorkingYour tables folder is scanned in place, subfolders included. When your tables or ROMs change, the Hub rescans by itself. At the last headset check most VR tables were missing from the Hub page; the fixes since are not rechecked.
WorkingTwo buttons. The Hub writes its own settings file per table to turn VR on or off. Your own VPX settings are never edited.
WorkingWith SteamVR running, VPX draws the table in the headset itself, without an extra VR layer.
In progressA gamepad layout, with an analog plunger and nudge, goes into a copy of VPX's settings. In the headset: left stick click is Start, right stick click is Coin, A is the plunger button, and both stick clicks together align the table to your hands. To leave a table, open the Hub panel from the SteamVR dashboard and choose Exit game.
In progressExit game or Stop asks VPX to close normally, with no forced stop, so scores get the chance to save. Helpers the table started are closed with it.
WorkingEvery route ends the same way: two eye images go to OpenXR, SteamVR puts them in the headset, and your controller's pose comes back as the game's own gun, pointer or wheel input. What changes is where the stereo hook sits. New game profiles and emulator wrappers are added all the time.
Supermodel emulator, patched
Its 3D renderer draws once per eye: open frame, or inside the game with your head tracked
supermodel-vr opens the OpenXR session itself
SteamVR; Exit game in the dashboard ends it cleanly
Input back controller → the emulator's own gun and wheel inputs; a two-handed wheel is an opt-in view
11 games, 54 views. Started by the Hub directly.
acvr-ps1, our own small program running a libretro core: SwanStation or Beetle, mupen64plus, Beetle Saturn
A big screen in the room, or real 3D on N64 by intercepting its OpenGL drawing
One projection layer per eye, with the project's own gun model in your hand
SteamVR; Exit game ends it cleanly
Input back right controller → a GunCon or Justifier, as if one were plugged in; trigger off the screen reloads
49 games. PS1 open frame is not possible: those games cut everything outside 4:3.
PCSX2, patched
Per-vertex depth plus the game's camera give real parallax
In-process OpenXR presenter: a screen in the room, or inside the game
SteamVR to your headset
Input back controller → console-pistol aim, native to the emulator
12 games, 27 views. Time Crisis 3 calibration and its inside view are fixed. Games without a gun get no controller input yet (Wipeout Pulse broke in the headset).
DolphinXR, a VR build of Dolphin, pinned
Dolphin's stereo renders the 3D scene per eye; menus and HUD on a screen in the room where the game allows
Dolphin's own OpenXR output
SteamVR to your headset
Input back controller → Wii Remote pointer or motion, Nunchuk on the other hand
20 Wii games and F-Zero GX. Every Wii game loads a saved starting point, but none has a complete pass yet; Metroid Prime Trilogy still clips. F-Zero GX did not get past its title in the headset, and its fix is unseen.
hotd2-vr, a Flycast fork, with our patch
Rebuilds the game in true 3D, with per-game profiles
Flycast's own OpenXR host, at the headset's highest refresh rate
SteamVR to your headset
Input back controller → the console or arcade gun; the pistol's slide kicks back on every shot
10 games. Death Crimson OX and 2 and Virtua Cop 2 are still early (E1).
MAME, patched: a stereo Model 2 renderer, or plain frames for gun games
Frames published to our viewer, beside the emulator
libacvr's shared presenter: a 3.2 m screen at 2.5 m, the gun model and an aim dot, or Model 2 in real 3D
SteamVR to your headset
Input back controller → calibrated gun ports; opt-in body motion for motion cabinets
40 games. Model 2 plays its own sound since 21 October.
Time Crisis VR, a third-party port, built locally
The port's own stereo: open frame or inside the game
The port's OpenXR session
SteamVR, started by the Hub directly
Input back controller → the game's gun
An owned native host on libacvr is parked for now.