Chapter 14
Glossary
The words this manual and the app use, in one place.
- Anchor
- Where an item's position is measured from: Game world (your seat) or Real world (your room).
- Car ID
- The name the sim uses for a car. Presets are matched to cars by it.
- Canvas
- A flat passthrough panel you paint shapes on in VR.
- Box
- A 3D passthrough shape. Anything inside it shows the real world.
- Chroma key
- Passthrough by colour. The app paints a key colour, and Virtual Desktop replaces it with the camera image.
- Cockpit shake
- The wheel and dashboards moving with the car's bumps, worked out from telemetry.
- Dashboard
- A flat panel in the car showing a SimHub dashboard or a window.
- Edit mode
- The only state in which items in VR can be moved. Turned on with EDIT.
- Feather
- A soft edge, set in metres or millimetres.
- Fit mode
- The Wheel page tool that places the wheel screen on the model.
- FIT / FILL
- How the wheel screen scales a dashboard: all of it inside the screen, or covering the screen with the edges cut.
- Game file
- The sim's program (.exe). The cockpit shows only while it runs.
- Lite mode
- The free mode after the trial: VR menu, recentre, hands and one dashboard.
- OpenComposite
- A free tool that lets SteamVR-only sims run through OpenXR.
- OpenXR
- The standard way PC games talk to VR headsets. The add-on needs it.
- OpenXR runtime
- The program that connects OpenXR games to your headset, for example Virtual Desktop.
- Passthrough
- Seeing the real world through the headset's cameras.
- Pivot
- The point a wheel model turns about: the centre of the steering shaft.
- Preset
- Everything set up for one car.
- Recentre
- Moving everything placed in the game world to your current seat position.
- SimHub
- A program that draws dashboards from telemetry. The app shows its dashboards.
- Telemetry
- Live data from the sim: car, steering, speed, motion.
- Template
- The preset new cars start from.
- VR add-on
- The part of Virtual Real Cockpit that loads into the sim and draws in the headset.
- VR menu
- The menu in the headset, opened with X or the wrist button.
- Wheel screen
- A SimHub dashboard shown on your wheel model's display.
- Wrist button
- The round button on the back of your left wrist that opens the VR menu with hand tracking.