PimaxMagic4All should work with any SteamVR-compatible headset that exposes a low-level public API to retrieve eye tracking data, or which has third-party software that does so, including:<\/p>\n
What Is Foveated Rendering?<\/p>\n
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- Fixed Foveated Rendering (FFR)\u00a0<\/strong><\/b>means rendering the central area of the image at a higher resolution than the peripheral area.<\/li>\n
- Eye-Tracked Foveated Rendering (ETFR)<\/strong><\/b>, occasionally also called Dynamic Foveated Rendering, means rendering the area you’re currently looking at at higher resolution than everywhere else, as determined by eye tracking sensors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Both techniques save performance in VR, and this can be used to either run demanding experiences at a smoother framerate or render experiences already hitting framerate at higher peak resolution.<\/p>\n
FFR comes with noticeable pixelation at the edges, but works on any headset, while with ETFR there shouldn’t be any noticeable difference, depending on the settings and that assuming the eye tracking system has low enough latency.<\/p>\n
The developer says that it should “likely” work with Valve’s Steam Frame<\/a> too, when streaming from a Windows PC with an Nvidia GPU, and in theory could work with HTC Vive Pro Eye and Vive Focus Vision with additional development time.<\/p>\n
The developer, by the way, is Matthieu Bucchianeri, a name you may recognize if you’re a regular UploadVR reader.<\/p>\n
Bucchianeri is a very experienced developer, having worked on the PS4 and original PlayStation VR at Sony, Falcon 9 and Dragon at SpaceX, and HoloLens and Windows MR at Microsoft, where he currently works on Xbox. At Microsoft he contributed to OpenXR, and in his spare time he developed OpenXR Toolkit<\/a>, VDXR<\/a> (Virtual Desktop’s OpenXR runtime), and most recently Oasis<\/a>, the native SteamVR driver that revived<\/a> Windows MR headsets.<\/p>\n
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PimaxMagic4All used with Varjo Aero.<\/p>\nPimaxMagic4All has a simple graphical interface with three levels of foveated rendering: Maximum, Balanced, and Minimum. You can choose between prioritizing increasing performance, achieving a result where you shouldn’t notice the difference, or a balance of the two.<\/p>\n
The tool can inject foveated rendering into any title that uses the DirectX 11 graphics API and OpenVR, Valve’s deprecated<\/a> API for SteamVR. The game also needs to not have an anti-cheat system, since those will prevent code injection. And remember, you need to have an Nvidia graphics card, specifically a GTX 16 series or RTX card.<\/p>\n
You can find<\/a> a small list of supported titles on the GitHub project’s wiki page, and it includes Half-Life: Alyx, Skyrim VR, Fallout 4 VR, Elite Dangerous, Assetto Corsa, and Boneworks. But this is only a fraction of the total number of games that should be supported in theory.<\/p>\n
Note that three titles you won’t need this for are Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, DCS, and iRacing, since all three now support OpenXR eye-tracked foveated rendering natively.<\/p>\n
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Now Has Foveated Rendering<\/p>\n
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 now has both fixed and eye-tracked foveated rendering, alongside a range of other improvements to VR support.<\/p>\n
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- Eye-Tracked Foveated Rendering (ETFR)<\/strong><\/b>, occasionally also called Dynamic Foveated Rendering, means rendering the area you’re currently looking at at higher resolution than everywhere else, as determined by eye tracking sensors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n