Plays the beatmap's video behind the notes when available (osu! & StepMania). Dimmed so notes stay readable.

AUTO turns VR on when running on a Steam Frame and leaves it off everywhere else. ON / OFF override detection for testing. With VR on, ENTER VR appears at the top of the menu whenever a WebXR headset is available.

No headset was found when the game started. It keeps looking every few seconds and switches to VR by itself once SteamVR is running and you are back on the menu. LOOK FOR STEAMVR checks right now.

Where the note highway sits in VR (Standard, DDR, PIU, DanceRush): how far ahead of you the judgment line is, and how far below your eyes. Measured from where you were at the last recenter. In VR, the controllers play lanes through the gamepad column of INPUT BINDINGS, like an Xbox pad: the triggers are LB / RB, the grips LT / RT, the left stick is the D-pad, and A / B / X / Y are themselves.

FEET plays the highways by stepping on a pad drawn on the floor under you, with trackers set to the left foot and right foot roles in SteamVR (or body tracking where the headset has it). DDR and PIU get their cabinet pad, Standard a row of lanes just ahead of your toes, and in DanceRush your feet are the foot cursors. Recenter while standing where you want the pad. A USB dance pad works with any setting.

In VR, Synth is played with a ball in each hand: cyan on the left controller, pink on the right. Touch each note with the ball of its colour as it reaches the window in front of you (green needs both). REACH is how far ahead of your eyes the window is. WRONG HAND decides whether touching a note with the other ball is a miss, or doesn't count.

In VR, Sabre is played with a light sword in each hand: cyan on the left controller, pink on the right. Swing the sword of a block's colour through it the way its arrow points. Keep your head out of the walls and your swords off the bombs. BAD CUTS decides whether cutting a block with the other sword, or against its arrow, is a miss or doesn't count.

In VR, the osu! playfield is a dome in front of you. Circles fly in from far behind it and land on it on the beat; the ring on the landing spot closes in as they arrive. DISTANCE is how far away the dome is (circles keep the same size to your eye). A narrower dome (WIDTH) means less arm travel between circles. It is 60% as tall as it is wide. Point a controller's laser at a circle and pull its trigger (or A / X) to hit it; either hand can hit any circle. AIM set to HEAD, LEFT or RIGHT gives you one cursor, from your head or that hand, and either trigger clicks, like a mouse. AIM ASSIST widens every circle by a small angle so a shaky hand still hits. To follow a slider, keep the trigger held and the laser on the ball rolling through the tube. Spin a spinner by drawing circles with the laser or by twisting a controller in your wrist. STYLE set to REACH pulls the dome in to arm's length and turns the lasers off: punch or touch each circle with the ball in either hand as it lands, drag that hand along a slider's tube, and circle a hand round the small ring to spin a spinner. REACH SCALE shrinks the playfield (and its circles) so jumps fit your arms; DISTANCE, WIDTH and AIM do not apply in REACH.

GUNSLINGER AIM set to ASSISTED sends a Gunslinger shot to the enemy you aimed close enough to (within 5°), and its tracer curves onto him; if two are that close, the one whose beat is due is hit. It picks who is hit, never when: timing is still judged on the beat. It never pulls a shot off a bullet you are shooting at, or onto an enemy down behind his cover. PRECISION hits only an enemy your aim passes right through. Each Gunslinger pistol holds 8 rounds, shown as pips on the side of the gun. POINT DOWN reloads a pistol when you point it at the floor (more than 60° below level). A / X reloads it when you press that hand's face button instead, for when pointing down is hard. A reload takes 0.4 s; an empty pistol only clicks, and an empty click neither scores nor breaks your combo. GUNSLINGER SCENE set to RANDOM plays each song in its own place, the same one every time: a neon downtown, a western main street, the docks or a desert highway. Pick one to play every song there.

How many frames a second the headset shows. Higher is smoother, lower is sharper: to hold 144 Hz a Steam Frame draws the game at 80% of the headset's resolution, 85% at 120 Hz, and full resolution at 90 Hz. AUTO runs at the headset's highest rate, or the one picked for NeoBeats in SteamVR's settings. A rate the headset does not have falls back to the next one down. Changes take effect at once, in VR too.

ON shows a small panel low in your view in VR: frames per second against the headset's refresh rate, the time between frames (median, 95th percentile, worst), the game's own work per frame, and frames that missed the display. On a Steam Frame it also shows how many headset frames got a new picture. A line with the same figures goes to the log every 10 seconds either way.

ARCADE is a big-screen, StepMania-style flow with press-to-join and local split-screen versus (DDR/PIU).

Click any slot to bind. Press Backspace on keyboard to clear a binding.