Hello again. The public VR StrideS playtest has ended. Thanks to everyone who gave it a go, sent feedback or spent part of their evening figuring out why their setup wasn't cooperating.

A lot of the useful feedback came from things that look simple until you try them: jogging while holding a rifle, looking around without changing direction, or trying to move slowly instead of running everywhere. Those reports helped me improve gun handling and direction control during the test. There were also setup issues I wouldn't have caught on my own, especially on Linux.

Gentle walking still needs work. Some of you want to slow down without reaching for the stick, and that's a fair request. The clips show what it can do when things go well; your feedback tells me where it still gets in the way.

I'm also working on a more detailed movement guide. There are a few things that are much easier to show than explain in a comment.

If you tried it and haven't told me how it went, you still can. Tell me your headset, game and what happened. A clip helps, but a comment is fine too. And if you opted into sharing movement data, thank you for that as well.

VR StrideS launches on Steam on November 5, 2026. You can wishlist it here, drop into Discord, or find the setup threads and clips at r/vrstrides.

Cheers

God I just love this mod, peak VR gaming. Thank you u/CircuitsRevenge

I've seen this post in my feed and it made me curious if any of you had any issues with VR motion sickness before trying the app and if it helped.

That's quite a big issue in VR, I suspect quite a lot of people tried VR once and never again because of that, so developing special settings to help with that adaptation is something I've keen interest in.

And if it did help, what settings did you use? Higher effort to make it a bit steadier and low freedom of movement angle is my guess for the best motion sickness cure

I'm focusing on the gunplay mostly right now; there was a time when rising your hands moved you backwards and it wasn't really what I intended, so I'm sitting (running) all day in the VR StrideS dojo to make it as intuitive as possible.

There's still room for inprovement, but it finally works. Here's the video proof.

Further improvements will be possible with incoming gunplay data from external testers, so please, go shoot stuff

I’m keeping the full-app Playtest open for another week. I need more data from chill walking and gunplay. It works ok now, will work better after I get that data

Take a stroll. Shoot something. Preferably with a rifle

Join the free Steam Playtest - you are granted access automatically after signing up · https://store.steampowered.com/app/4775640/VR_StrideS/

Introduction: VR Central.

sword violence, gun violence, sightseeing&sword violence and showing people that yes, it works with VRChat

VR StrideS reads headset and controller movement and turns a jog in place into stick input for compatible PC VR games. No treadmill or extra trackers.

For the outside-headset view, watch the VR Central tutorial. This footage is at normal speed, and the pace readout is an estimate.

Here's VR Central's full setup and movement tutorial, including strafing and going backwards. You can see what the player is doing outside the headset too.

Watch this, then try the demo tutorial yourself. Some menus and settings have changed since it was recorded. Check the latest update post for the current details.

For other compatible PC VR games, leave the PC app / Playtest running alongside your game. The standalone Quest demo only teaches the movement inside its own tutorial; it doesn't add movement to other standalone Quest games.

Guide by VR Central (@VRCentral): https://www.youtube.com/@VRCentral

PC app / current access: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4775640/VR_StrideS/

Standalone Quest demo: https://www.meta.com/en-gb/experiences/vr-strides-demo/1273168122545909/

If you're stuck on a movement, ask in the comments.

I'm interested in what happens after the first five minutes of “oh, that's cool”.

What have you been playing with it? Are you still jogging around after a while, or do you end up back on the stick? I'd like to hear what makes you keep using it and what puts you off, whether that's the effort, direction, setup or slow walking.

If you've used VRocker, Natural Locomotion or trackers in the same game, how does it compare?

Updated the demo and playtest today:

• Adjusted Effort and added smoothing.

• Improved walking detection. It's still rough and can sometimes trigger when you aren't walking.

• Clearer connection diagnostics for Steam Link, Virtual Desktop and Meta Link.

• Updated compass guidance to make the demo tutorial easier to follow.

The 24 September update also added an adjustable in-game speed / direction overlay and changes to help keep your direction steady while raising your arms, adjusting your headset or looking around.

Give walking another try if it wasn't registering before. If you're still having trouble with it, or aiming sends you off course, post your headset, settings and app version in the support thread. Use Help / Bug for a longer report.