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OVR Toolkit - Desktop Overlay
OVR Toolkit is a utility application designed to make viewing the desktop in VR simple and fast, it allows for viewing the desktop within VR, placing desktop windows around the world, mouse input, typing with a virtual keyboard, and quickly switching between windows.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“The program has some really good features. It adds a menu to your wrist where you can control overlays, media, etc. It also has a feature to display the currently playing music inside VRChat. The overlays are a bit confusing to manage, but I think it’s just a matter of getting…”
— a player, Steam review · 371 hrs played“Not as stable as I'd like but still in active development and continuously improving, with features I can't find elsewhere.”
— a player, Steam review · 1,971 hrs played“OVR Toolkit was a great tool for SteamVR for me. It has time, date, and do more features with OVR Toolkit. Is this worth getting? Yes it is If you want more tools for SteamVR. They offer alot of features. I like the OLD UI for OVR Toolkit in my opinion I don't hate the new one…”
— a player, Steam review · 92 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 13:15 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
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Latest official news
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Changelog for 26-06-2026
26-06-2026Critical bug fix (Absolutely diabolical oversight) for a window save retry loop that would compound over time eventually leading to an application crash. (This same code was in OVRT like 3 y
Changelog for 07-06-2026
07-06-2026Speech Recognition changes: Google Cloud voice recognition will now wait 4 seconds before ending listening, to avoid cutting off for pauses mid-sentence.Implemented further improvements to e
Changelog for 04-03-2026
04-03-2026:Google Cloud voice recognition will now wait 4 seconds before ending listening, to avoid cutting off for pauses mid-sentence.Misc improvements to ensure reliability of OSC.smól changes. ^^
Changelog for 05-02-2026
05-02-2026:OVR Toolkit now randomizes its OSCQuery TCP/UDP ports to avoid conflict with other applications. (oops - Thanks for reporting this Ely Chan!)FIxed OVR Toolkit not correctly setting the OSCQ
Changelog for 06-10-2025
06-10-2025Updated OVR Toolkit's Unity version in par with Unity guidance to prevent a Unity security vulnerability.Implemented new built-in web browser to replace the existing browser. (More modern Ch
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Utilities |
| Player tags | Utilities · VR · Software (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Tracked Controller Support · VR Only · Steam Workshop · Partial Controller Support |
| Languages | English, Japanese, Korean, Czech, German, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Portugal, French, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Finnish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian |
| Estimated owners | 500,000 – 1,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 / 11 Processor: Core i5 / Ryzen 3 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: GPU with 6GB VRAM or higher (GTX 1060 6GB) - This number is for running OVR Toolkit alongside a VR game DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 800 MB available space VR Support: SteamVR Additional Notes: Windows 7/8 is unsupported. Later versions of 8.1 may work.