- LucidVR v0.8.0 Scene Saves and Player Tools - 7 July 2026
v0.8.0 is now live!This update focuses on making larger LucidVR sessions easier to manage: save your scenes, find players faster, reorient the scene.💾 Scene Saves🆕 Added .lucidvr-scene save/load support so you can preserve player layouts and reload them later.✨ Added default.lucidvr-scene startup loading for users who want LucidVR to open directly into a preferred configuration.🧭 Command Palette and Player Manager🆕 Added a Command Palette. Hold the Secondary button for quick access to Scene Look and Player Manager.✨ Added Player Manager to help find players, switch focus, and spawn new players in busier scenes.🎮 Scene Look and UI Feedback🆕 Added Scene Look thumbstick controls for reorienting the scene more comfortably.✨ Added clearer hold progress feedback for scene and peek-style interactions.Final Notesv0.8.0 is a workflow focused release for users building more complex viewing…
- LucidVR v0.7.0 Dual Controller Support and Bug Fixes - 22 June 2026
v0.7.0 is now live!This release focuses on adding true dual controller support, new flat stereo formats, and quality-of-life fixes for controls, images, and playlists.🆕 True Dual Controller Support🆕 Added true dual controller support. Previously, when using both controllers, the app could fight over which player was active. Now each controller independently targets a player for interaction. Hopefully this is a much more intuitive interaction experience that matches user expectations.✨ Player actions route more consistently to the player you are targeting.🖼️ Flat Stereo Formats🆕 Added flat side-by-side and flat top-bottom formats for packed stereo content that displays edge-to-edge. This new format dramatically improves the viewing experience for non-standard 3D images.🛠️ Bug Fixes and Playlist Polish🛠️ Format pin now stays pinned when loading images instead of resetting.✨ Playlist…
- LucidVR v0.6.0 Media Browsing Updates - 18 June 2026
v0.6.0 is now live!This release focuses on enhancing the media browsing experience: file browser improvements, filmstrip timeline browsing, GIF playback, async image loading, and a more useful On-screen Keyboard.🆕 File Browser Improvements🆕 Added thumbnail previews for image and video files.✨ Added 3 presentation modes: List, Preview, and Grid.✨ Added a dark theme and improved sorting for easier browsing.🎞️ Filmstrip Previews🆕 Added filmstrip previews on media controls for timeline browsing.🖼️ GIF Playback and Async Image Loading🆕 Added GIF playback with video-like playback behavior.✨ Added async image loading for fewer stalls and stutters.⌨️ OSK and Performance Options🆕 The OSK is now grabbable, with better placement and styling.✨ Thumbnail generation can be disabled in App Settings in case of performance issues.✨ Rendering Improvements🛠️ Fixed a possible aliasing artifact in v…
- LucidVR v0.5.0 Quality of Life Improvements - 10 June 2026
v0.5.0 is now live!This is a fast-follow quality-of-life release built around user-suggested improvements and fixes for a few playback edge cases that showed up after v0.4.0.Controls and Workflow🆕 Added playlist search to the playlist panel.🆕 Added configurable thumbstick deadzone controls in App Settings for tuning controller drift.🆕 Added a long-press format pin on the media controls panel, so a player can keep its selected video format across media loads instead of returning to automatic detection.🆕 Added a hold-to-look joystick control on the media controls panel for adjusting video view direction. Tap the control to recenter.🆕 Added Advanced Fisheye FOV Controls.Projection and Image Layout🆕 Video Settings controls: mirror and flip, player size, and X/Y offset controls with an anchor indicator.🛠️ Bugfix distortion in Fisheye video formats.🛠️ Bugfix preserve selected video fo…
- LucidVR v0.4.0 Playback Reliability Update - 26 May 2026
Architecture Rewrite: Renderer Engine Hardening - Foundational Performance, Stability, and Reliability Improvementsv0.4.0 is now live! v0.3.0 was an exciting milestone because it brought hardware rendering support, including HDR playback improvements, to LucidVR, but that new playback path was a little less reliable than we wanted.For this cycle, we focused on renderer engine hardening to increase performance, reliability, and stability. We rearchitected the entire rendering engine pipeline front-to-back so these improvements are structural, not one-off fixes. The result should be a stronger foundation for future releases, with fewer bugs as the engine continues to evolve. The most visible effects are better behavior when loading media, switching renderer paths, seeking, looping, changing speed, and recovering from difficult playback conditions.🛠️ Playback ReliabilityReworked the playb…
- LucidVR v0.3.0 Hardware-Accelerated GPU Rendering - 15 May 2026
v0.3.0 is now live! Hardware renderer support is here! Watch your favorite 4K UHD HDR videos in LucidVR.* This major update focuses on faster, more reliable playback with new hardware renderer support for HDR video and H.264, H.265/HEVC, and AV1 codecs.In testing, we were able to watch (our legal copy!) Dune 2 4K UHD HDR HEVC Blu-ray using the hardware renderer, with rendering taking only 2% of the available per-frame budget! Incredible!**🎥 Hardware Renderer Support🆕 Added a new hardware renderer using hardware decoding and GPU presentation🆕 Hardware decode support for modern codecs including H.265/HEVC and AV1 where supported by your system✨ LucidVR automatically picks the best renderer to give maximum format compatibility without extra setup.🌈 HDR & Image Quality✨ Added HDR support! All HDR content is tone-mapped to SDR so HDR videos display with better brightness and color on sta…
- LucidVR v0.2.0 Major Update - 5 May 2026
This major update dramatically expands playback compatibility in LucidVR with support for more formats, more codecs, and a new renderer path.🎥 Much Broader Video Support🆕 Added support for FLV, M4V, MKV, MOV, MPEG, MPG, MTS, VOB, WEBM, and WMV🆕 Added support for modern codecs including H.265/HEVC and AV1✨ Added a new rendering engine plus a software renderer compatibility mode to improve playback across many previously unsupported videos🛠️ Playback & Controls✨ Added renderer selection so you can choose the best playback path for your system and media✨ Added playback performance monitoring and notifications when the software renderer cannot keep up🧰 Quality of Life🆕 Added a new "Peek" feature so you can peek the main player when its blocked by other video players. Press and hold the Primary Button to Peek.✨ Improved floating controls with quicker access to open files and the clock✨…
- LucidVR v0.1.0 Patch Notes - 2 April 2026
v0.1.0 is now live! This update provides a nice mix of bug fixes, new format support, better panel handling, UI polish, and stability work behind the scenes.🎥 New Video Format Support🆕 Added support for Perspective SBS🧪 Experimental - Added support for Sinusoidal SBS✨Added FOV controls for fisheye formats so it is easier to tune playback for different content🛠️ Quality of Life✨Added reset buttons to video settings✨Added an in-app system clock🚀 Roadmap item - Added the ability to delete the currently loaded media file from inside the appOn Windows, deleted files can go to the Recycle Bin✨Small activation delay on confirmation modal to prevent accidental clicks🐛 Bug Fixes💀 Major annoying bug squashed. Media controls could get "locked" to the wrong player and it was tedious / annoying to release it. This was a difficult bug to nail down and reproduce, so we took extra time here reso…
- Release Notes Mar 16 for Build 14516b3 - Bug Fixes & Stability Improvements - 17 March 2026
This update focuses on fixing several issues and improving overall stability. Fixes • Fixed Player Spawning when dismissing player controls rapidly • Fixed panel swap issues that could cause incorrect control panel latching • Fixed desktop mirror toggle becoming out of sync with the F9 hotkey File Browser Improvements • Fixed multiple issues with the file browser system such as stale state on navigation and browsing empty folders • Improved folder navigation and recursive search behavior • Improved sort-by-date sorting performance especially over network shares Stability Improvements • Improved cleanup of objects during shutdown
- 🚀 LucidVR Video Player is Now Live - 11 March 2026
For anyone just now discovering it:LucidVR is a VR video player focused on creativity and immersion. You can place multiple videos and images around you in 3D space to create your own immersive viewing setup.Supports common video formats like H.264 as well as VR formats such as 180° SBS, TTB, and fisheye.🎉 A launch discount is available this week!Huge thanks to everyone who wishlisted and supported development leading up to release.If you pick it up, I’d love to hear what you think. Feedback and feature requests help shape future updates.👉 What features would you like to see next?I'm already working on improvements and new capabilities based on community feedback.Thanks again for the support — and enjoy the experience.
- 🚀 LucidVR Video Player launches Tuesday, March 10 at 8 PM ET - 9 March 2026
Final polishing is complete! We used the extra time to squash a bug that could cause the app to hang on exit, and the launch build is now looking solid.Watch multiple 3D VR videos simultaneously and experience your media in mind-bending, hyper-immersive scenes!LucidVR is just getting started and we’re excited to hear what you think. You can send feedback anytime using the in-app feedback button.Thanks for the support — see you at launch! 🎉
- Launch Update - 4 March 2026
Unfortunately, during final testing we found an issue affecting application shutdown on some systems. Rather than ship something that doesn’t meet our quality bar, we’re taking a few extra days to polish it properly.Thanks for your patience, LucidVR deserves a smooth launch.
- 🚀 March Progress Update – Final Polish Before Launch - 1 March 2026
February was a massive stabilization and feature sprint for LucidVR Video Player, focused on three things:Expanding format supportImproving comfort & visual correctnessHardening UX edge cases before releaseHere’s what’s new since the last update.🎥 Expanded Format SupportLucidVR now supports a much wider range of VR video configurations:🚀 Roadmap item - TTB (Top-To-Bottom) video support🚀 Roadmap item - Fisheye lens support🧪 Experimental - Front/Back fisheye format🆕 Eye swap + convergence controls🛠️ TTB auto-detection was removed after testing revealed too many false positives — manual control is preferred.If your content is oddly encoded, you now have the tools to fix it in-app.🔧 Advanced Playback ControlsPlayback customization has been expanded significantly:🆕 Aspect ratio override✂️ Full crop system⏩ Playback speed control🆕 Desktop mirror toggle🆕 Floating ephemeral controls p…
- Demo Update – Roadmap Progress + New Playback Features and Search Improvements - 2 February 2026
This update focuses on roadmap items, usability, and finally some app / visual polish, with several new features and changes based on early testing and crash reports.🎬 Playback & Viewing Improvements🚀 Roadmap item - Added FOV capability to support a broader range of VR media formats.🚀 Roadmap item - Added scene recentering to quickly re-align your view (double click the thumbstick to align the scene with your head's orientation).🆕 Added playback loop vs advance control (previously was loop always).🛠️ Bugfix the media format button (2D, SBS).🖼️ Image & Media Enhancements🆕 New feature - image slideshow support.⚡ Improved image loading and error handling.🔍 File Browser & Search Improvements🚀 Roadmap item - Added On Screen Keyboard to support search.🆕 Added a loading indicator on the file browser.🆕 New feature - search state persists for each media player.🧩 UI & Usability Polish…
