Space Drag Guide

This Guide Covers the basics of how to use the "Space Drag Feature" and explains some of the settings around it.

What is Space Drag?

Essentially Space Drag is a feature that allows you to "Drag" yourself. Moving the World around you (or moving yourself depending on perspective) based on how you move your hand.

Basic Set-up

To Begin Using Space Drag some-setup is required.

You Need to Set Two Things:

• Check Box for Hand you Want to Use.
  
• Bindings

Check Boxes

First Go to the Motion Tab In OVR Advanced Settings. You should see the following.


Simply click on The Left/Right Hand check-boxes depending on what hand(s) you would like to use.

Bindings

This is not the Guide to get into the SteamVR binding system, for that several exist. But we will Briefly Cover the Issues.

The shortest way To get to the Menu is to hit the Bindings Button This is on the front page of OVR Advanced Settings.


You should Now Have a Window similar to This open.



Now For Space Drag that is in the "Motion" action set, make sure you have that tab selected (it should be the default one).


Now You will Select The button you want to use for Our Example we will use the "a" button on knuckles controllers.

First Hit the Now you will want to select "Button".


you should now see something like this.

Click the "None" on "Click" And you will get a list of Options.


Now Several of the options apply, but for the simple guide we Will just focus on "Left Hand Space Drag" and "Right Hand Space Drag"

Now you should have something like this.



Now you can Save a Personal Binding to apply it.


That's It for the Set-Up.

TroubleShooting

• First Make Sure your Bindings Saved, Sometimes SteamVR does not save properly.
  
• Next Make Sure you have the checkboxes in the "motion" tab selected for which hand/binding you are using.
  
• Now Go to the offset Tab And Make Sure that the X, Y, and Z, axis are not checked (as that will Lock you up.

If Those Steps Don't Work. You can try adjusting some of settings for OVR Advanced Settings Go to the Settings tab, and try adjusting these

• Enable Motion Features When in Seated Mode - This should allow you to move if you are not set-up as room-scale, or the game is a seated only game.
  
• Allow External App Chaperone Edits - This Should only be turned off if you have another app that needs access to the chaperone. As when this is checked we cannot gurantee that we are moving the chaperone with 100% precision.
  
• Old-Style Motion - This may also work, but will mostly be useful if you are "snapping" while space dragging

If All that Fails reach out to us, or get involved in the community VIA Steam/Discord/Github etc.

[iceyfoxnarrin]

my space drag doesnt work, on vrchat or in the home it didnt show up in the bindings so i reinstalled both applications on my headset and pc, and now i can see the space drag binding but it doesnt work, and when i go into vrchat the space drag binding disappears again can someone help

[420BottlesOfBeerOnTheWall]

hello guys, just want to ask in case im doing something wrong here, but space drag for me has stopped working on vegas infinity vr. i belive i did see some players using it recently but i never got a chance to ask. Has vegas infinity blocked this feature working in game if you are aware? are there any tests or things i should try? i can nget it working before the game loads, but then it stops once loaded. thanks guys

[1103806633]

For some reason, the UI looks different, and the spacedrage option just disappeared in the binding menu even after I turned it on. It seems like the only way to access the space drag is to search for old key bindings.

[Stickygoo5]

it just wont work in vr

[Ruby]

If anyone is having issues with setting this up, make sure you're doing it in VR directly from the steam dashboard

[strawberry]

how do i get to advanced settings

[I'm Back Bois]

So, I got it to work, but it only works in VR home.....How do I get the space mover to work in other games? I've looked at bindings for some of the games I play, and none of them have the "motion" tab.

[Brightmuffin]

i fallowed everything to a T, dose ovr not support oculus quest 2?

[Cirno]

Does the play space thing allows for circumventing the teleportation in games that don't have an option to move around?
I have tried checking for videos on such, but all people talk is about moving up and down and not fi it can e used to easily move around in an environment.

[ykeara]

You can use the per-app bindings to make it work on some games and not others.