Desktop windows and chat in VR
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“Being able to flip my wrist and have chat pop up feels natural, intuitive, and never breaks immersion”
Steam review · 11.5 h played ↗
OVR Toolkit - Desktop Overlay
Worth buying? What 269 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 269 Steam reviews actually say.
Very Positive · 87%Very Positive · 87%Curtis English2019Utilities
$10.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 5 h ago
The verdict
A useful SteamVR overlay with a wrist watch, desktop windows, media and stream-chat in VR, but recent updates and a new UI left many long-time users with bugs. Skip it if you want rock-solid stability.
Great for
VR streamers and VRChat players who want a wrist watch, desktop windows, chat and music controls in-headset
Main risk
Updates and the new UI introduce bugs, crashes and lost window settings, and SteamVR now covers some features for free
What players love
Handy wrist watch with battery and time
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“It Gives You A Watch To Check The Time Or To See Headset Battery Or Your Trackers Battery”
Steam review · 278 h played ↗
Media controls and music
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“Absolutely amazing I love the media control”
Steam review · 3.4 h played ↗
Essential, reliable quality-of-life tool
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“I can't imaging using VR without this anymore. This is pretty essential IMO”
Steam review · 564.3 h played ↗
System monitoring (CPU, GPU, VRAM)
Mentioned in ~1 in 17 positive reviews
“very nice to see my cpu, ram, and vram usage”
Steam review · 75.6 h played ↗
Better than XSOverlay for some users
Mentioned in ~1 in 20 positive reviews
“it has more features, looks way nicer, and doesn't crash pretty much every single time I launch it per session”
Steam review · 5.6 h played ↗
What players complain about
Update and new UI broke features
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“the recent updates have made this thing super clunky and finicky”
Steam review · 526.1 h played ↗
Crashes and freezes
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“crashes all the time and I need to restart it.”
Steam review · 1026 h played ↗
High performance cost and lag
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“even with an RTX3090 I can see the loss and I mean a huge loss in performance with OVR on”
Steam review · 932.2 h played ↗
Clunky window and menu controls
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“I have to grab 6 or 7 times to figure out where the hell the window grab point is, and even after I do that it'll randomly let go.”
Steam review · 60.2 h played ↗
Windows and settings don't save or reset
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“even if I save my profile, it just resets everything and chooses whatever windows and sizes it wants”
Steam review · 35.3 h played ↗
Won't close properly, zombie processes
Mentioned in ~1 in 15 negative reviews
“Likes to keep running even after I close out of steamvr”
Steam review · 2530.5 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Unsupported800 MB
Minimum
OSWindows 10 / 11
ProcessorCore i5 / Ryzen 3
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsGPU with 6GB VRAM or higher (GTX 1060 6GB) - This number is for running OVR Toolkit alongside a VR game
Storage800 MB available space
Recommended
OSWindows 10 / 11
ProcessorCore i7 / Ryzen 5
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsGPU with 8GB VRAM or higher (GTX 1080 8GB, RTX 2070) - This number is for running OVR Toolkit alongside a VR game
Storage800 MB available space
OSWindows 10 / 11
ProcessorCore i5 / Ryzen 3
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsGPU with 6GB VRAM or higher (GTX 1060 6GB) - This number is for running OVR Toolkit alongside a VR game
Storage800 MB available space
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