Temporarily Disabling Chaperone or Collision Boundary

[Squible]

I wanted to try your fix because chaperone is really bothering me when looking at movies but I dont have ViveVRRuntime. I tried both path, searched for its name on PC and I dont have it? My HTC is having detection problems so I migth lack something? How do I get it?

[lamyipming]

16 hours ago, Squible said:

I wanted to try your fix because chaperone is really bothering me when looking at movies but I dont have ViveVRRuntime. I tried both path, searched for its name on PC and I dont have it? My HTC is having detection problems so I migth lack something? How do I get it?

I guess the actual path might vary for difference people, so I can't tell where it is in your PC.

The way I found mine is to use a software called Sandboxie. I used Sandboxie to launch VIVE Console, adjust the chaperone settings in Lens, and close the VR. It will crash for some reasons, but Sandboxie can log what files have been modified by Vive Console in the independent environment. Find the correct text file location and there you can change the alpha from 15 to 0.

Or let's hope Vive will fix this soon.

 

[neoglow]

I joined to say a huge thanks for sharing this. The boundary circle at my feet was driving me nuts in games and I searched everywhere to disable it. Even on its lowest transparency setting it was still very distracting.

Your simple fix completely eliminated the circle. I have to wonder why don’t HTC just provide a simple toggle to turn it on/off in settings...

Anyway. Thank you so much. Half Life Alyx is so much fun to play now without that circle!

[Whuups]

Thank you, i will try this.

Was really annoying to have a ring on the floor when i was driving in my sim rig. 

[Shevron]

On 12/9/2019 at 4:13 PM, lamyipming said:

Today I found a fix. Hope this helps anyone who faces the same problem. 

First terminate Vive Console and Viveport. Then use notepad to open the settings file "htcvr.vrsettings" located in "C:\ProgramData\HTC\ViveSoftware\ViveVRRuntime". There you can see that even if you have dragged the transparency all the way to 0 in the Lens menu, the "CollisionBoundsColorGammaA" is still set to 15. I think that this is a bug of the Lens software. Somehow they set the minimum value of the dragging bar to 15, instead of 0. Manually changing the "CollisionBoundsColorGammaA" to 0 will disable the boundary completely. (You will need to save the file with admin right.)

 

You da man! It's finally gone from my face!

[lamyipming]

I mean, it feels really terrible to raise this issue literally more than half a year ago, found the exact problem causing it, posted the solution online, and HTC is still not fixing it despite how small and easy fix it should be. It should only take your developers like 1 minute to resolve this issue - just set the damn minimum value to 0 instead of 15. How hard could it be?

 

I've been patience to defend this product numerous times and hoping the tracking to get improved some day. But honestly this chaperone transparency issue disappoints me very, very much. Seems like this will never be fixed. Seems like HTC doesn't care.

 

I just want to enjoy a movie without re-running the whole room setup to change to seated position. 

[Bigslarge]

Still not fixed

Still have a red ring in all my games

If i had spent $1000 on a monitor and it had a red ring on it, I'd be pissed off.

[Bigslarge]

Still not fixed

Still pissed off about it

Please set the variable to 0 instead of 15

[lamyipming]

I gave up already. Fxxk HTC

[Bigslarge]

On 12/10/2019 at 9:12 AM, stvnxu said:

Hey @lamyipming,

Thanks for sharing this. I'll escalate this to our engineering team and will hope to get this addressed in the next update. I'll keep you posted.

Steve

Hi was this bullshit or what?