SlimeVR driver for OpenVR. Used to communicate between the SlimeVR server and SteamVR.

It's recommended to install the driver via the SlimeVR installer here: https://github.com/SlimeVR/SlimeVR-Installer/releases/latest/download/slimevr_web_installer.exe

Alternatively, you can also manually install it by following one of the two methods below.

Downloaded the latest release here: https://github.com/SlimeVR/SlimeVR-OpenVR-Driver/releases/latest/download/slimevr-openvr-driver-win64.zip. Copy the slimevr folder in your SteamVR folder, usually it's located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\SteamVR\drivers. This should look like this:

Edit file C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Local\openvr\openvrpaths.vrpath, add "Path\\to\\slimevr", to the list of external_drivers there, like this:

Don't forget to double backwards slashes!

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To build the project with VSCode you need to install two things: vcpkg and VS Build Tools.

After installing vcpkg if you're on Windows, you need to run vcpkg integrate install command from the vcpkg folder to integrate it for VSCode.

Clone the repository and submodules git clone --recurse-submodules -j8 https://github.com/SlimeVR/SlimeVR-OpenVR-Driver

Create the build files and start the build

cmake -B build
cmake --build build

For other systems and IDEs instructions are not available as of now, contributions are welcome.