LyrenneVR: music on your wrist
Look at your wrist in any PC VR game and the player appears: the song, the cover, the line of the lyrics being sung. Point and pull the trigger to play, skip, seek or turn it down. Free, open source, no ads.
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Changing the song in VR usually means lifting the headset or digging through a desktop overlay. Lyrenne VR puts a small player on your wrist instead, like a watch. Glance at it, click, and you're back in the game.
It works with Lyrenne, the desktop YouTube Music player, through Windows' media controls, so Lyrenne itself needs nothing extra. Games on SteamVR get an overlay; games on Virtual Desktop's VDXR runtime get an OpenXR layer. You launch your games the same way as always.
Features
Look at your wrist
Raise your watch hand and look: the player opens with a faint tick and closes when you look away. The text stays level with your eyes however you hold your arm.
Point and click
Your other controller is the mouse. Buttons pull the cursor in with a light tick. Play, pause, skip, seek, volume, shuffle and repeat.
Clicks never reach the game
While you point at the player the game doesn't see the trigger, so clicking never fires your gun. Point away and it has it back.
Synced lyrics
The current line of the song, right under the cover, so you can sing along mid-match.
Music volume only
The volume slider changes Lyrenne's own level in the Windows mixer, never the game's.
Costs the game almost nothing
The player is drawn as quads locked to your wrist. With the app closed, the layer does one timer check per frame and nothing else.
Install
Get Lyrenne playing on your PC.
Download LyrenneVR-Setup-x.y.z.exe from the latest release and run it. It asks for admin once, to register the OpenXR layer, and starts the tray app.
Start any VR game and look at your left wrist. Which wrist, lyrics, vibration and the player's size and position are in the tray icon's menu.
%LOCALAPPDATA%\LyrenneVR.FAQ
Can I control my music without taking off my VR headset?
Yes. Look at your wrist to open the player, point your other controller at it and pull the trigger to play, pause, skip, seek or change the volume.
Does it work with Virtual Desktop?
Yes. Games on SteamVR get an OpenVR overlay, and games on Virtual Desktop's VDXR OpenXR runtime get an OpenXR layer, so you don't change how you launch anything.
Will clicking the player fire my gun in the game?
No. While you point at the player the game doesn't get the trigger. Point away and the game has it back.
Do I need Lyrenne installed?
It's made for Lyrenne, but it reads Windows' media controls, so it also follows other players unless you tick Only follow Lyrenne.