Steam VR Wrong height

[NoBlackThunder]

It seems that steam VR seems to mess up my height pretty often .. once i even was by default tiltet to the side ... anyone has an idea why this happens and how to fix it ?

[--ranXerox--]

Same. I do note though that it seems it self calibrates itself when you are visible in the environment and it does self adjust. I don't know the trigger criteria but it does self calibrate, same with vive controllers when it determines which is left and right.

[NoBlackThunder]

i start the vive controllers flat on the ground and i have to lift them up like 1.2 meters before they even get out of the ground .. thats at least my experiance .. i am basically 1.2 meters to small right now .. and it does not seem to self calibrate for me ..i even did run the room setup several times .. that fixes it only for a very very short time before its back out of calibration

[developer]

It's now occurring to me too, both in the beta and the RC. And with SteamVR1.0 and SteamVR2.0 base stations. It is a bug which some ppl have been posting about since the motion smoothing beta (and possibly before). I have seen complaints all the way back 2.5+ years. When it occurs I see the floor changing height instantly during gameplay (and after restarts). The frequency of the malfunction varies based on which applications I have open (or it's just random). I see the floor instantly move as much as ±6". AKA an extreme amount of error!!! I use an I9-9900k cpu, two 2080TIs and dedicated PCIE USB3 card with Intel chipset. So I should be 100% compatible.

Does anyone here use Advanced Settings by chance?

[NoBlackThunder]

i have not but i will try to install it and see how the floor calibrate option in there will work ... Its really annoying to run trough the whole setup just to fix it for a very short time

[NoBlackThunder]

@Developer i have tried the advanced settings extension someone has created ... it fixes the floor height really easy when it gets out of sync .. so its a nice option to use

[Bluelight]

I've noticed that my controllers are usually about 0.8mm above the floor when I start the Vive or come out of a game but if I teleport once within steamvr home, they snap to the correct place so this is a long standing bug that just never has been fixed it seems.

[Mr.Pink]

Amazing how this is still an issue even in 2025.
For any unfortunate soul suffering from this and landed in this thread this is how you fix it:
Open Steam VR, Settings -> Developer ->Developer Settings. Place head-set on ground, click Quick Calibrate.

For many people the faulty offset always seems to be roughly +-10cm/4".
Which is what roughly the height of most headsets is.
For some reason when you do that dev setting it actually distracts the headsets height. This can't be this stupid, right?
Because what is an equally silly solution to this is to step on something that is the height of the headset while wearing the headset and recenter. Every. Single. Time.

There is only senior developer staff working at Valve, fix this ancient feature before HL3 plsss.

Most people don't even realize this is a thing at first, but when your height is about 6' / 182cm you will be suspiciously taller than everyone and crouching still leaves you very exposed.