DroidDeck/docs/quest.md

Experimental Quest 2/3/3S support

Quest runs DroidDeck as a 2D panel, with an experimental immersive SteamVR path in the standard app. Quest 2 has a separate experimental Adreno 6xx driver path.

Quest 2 selects turnip26.3.0-quest2, a pinned Banners-Turnip A6xx/A7xx build with the same GPUOBJ adapter. It does not select the Quest 3 A7xx binary. The first Quest 2 launch applies manual driver selection and the SurfaceControl workaround, even if questDefaultsV1 exists from an earlier install. Later user choices are retained. The separate turnip26.3.0-a6xx bundle provides a plain Adreno 6xx offline fallback for other devices; their driver Auto behavior remains. Neither family-wide hardware coverage nor Quest 2 operation has been verified.

The A6xx input URL and SHA-256 are pinned in tools/quest/build-driver.py. Both A6xx bundles are prepared by the existing local/CI wrapper build step and covered by runtime-input attestation. Quest 3/3S retains its original driver. Early installation and compositor breadcrumbs are written to driver-setup.txt in private files and, when available, the app's external files directory. They do not require a Steam session. The existing Quest Java crash file now also applies to Quest 2; native crashes still require Android logcat.

Install the standard DroidDeck APK on Quest 3/3S. Device detection on the first launch selects manual drivers, the bundled turnip25.1.0-quest1 Android driver and the default Linux driver. It enables hdr.steam to use the existing SurfaceControl presentation workaround from the Quest report. Presentation also has a Quest-specific layer path for complete SDR scenes and the black backdrop, independent of this HDR preference; see the presentation candidate and headset test. These defaults apply once; subsequent user changes are retained. Colour accuracy and headset performance still need testing.

Selecting driver Auto also uses the bundled Quest display driver and runtime default, without downloading a generic Adreno driver pair. Manual selections remain available and are not replaced on startup. Android's Auto-by-GPU fallback uses the Quest bundle too; the external Download/droiddeck-driver override still takes precedence. Fully close and restart DroidDeck after changing the display driver, since the compositor loads it once per app process.

Both the Android driver wrapper and the Linux session preload use tools/quest/kgsl_compat.c. Successful legacy allocation/free calls are unchanged. Only EACCES/EPERM failures retry through GPUOBJ_ALLOC, GPUOBJ_INFO and GPUOBJ_FREE. The Android wrapper depends on the original bundled Turnip binary. Quest's SELinux policy also denies CMDSTREAM_READTIMESTAMP_CTXTID, which Mesa 26's Turnip needs to wait on timeline semaphores; the adapter answers it from the last submitted timestamp and a zero-timeout WAITTIMESTAMP. Unhandled controller ioctls forward to the next preload hook rather than skipping it with a raw syscall.

tools/build_local.sh and CI build the wrapper from source using the pinned Android NDK; the normal preload builds include the shared Linux adapter. Runtime input verification checks the resulting driver archive and invalidates stale prepared assets after compatibility sources change. To rebuild only the Android driver archive:

python3 tools/quest/build-driver.py "$ANDROID_HOME/ndk/27.3.13750724"

Quest compatibility is included in the standard APK; no separate Quest package is needed. Other devices retain their existing defaults. The remaining performance-name APK variants continue to use separate app data and bwrap sockets.

Quest 3 testers have successfully launched games.

On a headset, check the Steam login panel, sign-in, game installation and then an owned game's rendering/input. Capture the device/OS, session logs, files/quest-startup.txt and any files/quest-last-crash.txt failure. Host allocation and preload-chain tests do not establish headset operation.

Experimental immersive SteamVR

In a running Steam session, open the session menu's SteamVR tab, install SteamVR once, then choose Enter SteamVR. Cardboard has its own tab and can remain off. On supported Quest devices this opens the standard app's OpenXR activity. The guest driver receives headset poses, Touch controller input and display timing, and returns owned stereo images tagged with the latest eye poses. SteamVR haptics return through the tracking bridge. No root or separate XR APK is required. Other devices retain their existing SteamVR start behavior.

The left Touch menu button is SteamVR's system button and toggles its dashboard. The right Meta button remains reserved by the headset OS.

The driver supplies SteamVR's version-5 chaperone configuration through Prop_DriverProvidedChaperoneJson_String, following Valve's driver API. Standing tracking keeps the OpenXR stage coordinates; seated tracking starts at the head's position and yaw. No synthetic play area or collision walls are advertised. Without a seated transform, SteamVR reported valid raw and standing poses but invalid seated poses, causing Thumper to remain behind its tracking-loss fade. On Quest, supplying both transforms made all three origins valid; seated height started within a millimetre of zero while standing and raw height stayed unchanged.

Quest uses SteamVR's normal Linux compositor through its display component. The Vulkan layer captures only the HMD display swapchain, retains its present waits, and chains a GPU copy before presentation. Three bounded capture buffers allow rendering and transfer to overlap. Where native GLES supports GL_EXT_external_buffer and texture views, Android allocates three AHardwareBuffer BLOBs and passes their DMA-BUF allocations to Linux through SCM_RIGHTS. Vulkan imports them as buffers and transfers foreign queue-family ownership before and after copying the display image. A native compute shader reads each shared buffer into a private RGBA8 texture; an sRGB texture view preserves hardware transfer decoding. Native GPU completion precedes the acknowledgement, so Linux cannot overwrite an active reader. This removes the CPU pixel copy and upload, but still includes GPU copies and explicit completion waits.

If capability negotiation or buffer import fails before frames are submitted, the existing CPU transport remains available. It brackets the DMA-BUF read with DMA_BUF_IOCTL_SYNC, copies to owned pixels, then acknowledges and uploads them. Both channels authenticate the peer UID and bound buffer sizes. Missing acknowledgements after submission quarantine the transfer and fail presentation instead of falling back while a reader might still own a buffer.

The helper temporarily enables SteamVR's Linux Vulkan asynchronous queue and disables motion smoothing, backing up those preferences and restoring them on stop or the next start after an interrupted session. It excludes the pinned Steam Frame package's optional CVP backend, whose library constructor exits on Quest's unsupported SoC. The original library is retained with a .droiddeck-disabled suffix. SteamVR binaries are not patched. Cardboard retains its existing direct-mode path; questframes remains an explicit diagnostic override for the earlier driver presenter.

The panel compositor detaches before OpenXR starts displaying guest frames. Session suspension accounts for the immersive activity while the panel is hidden. Closing the immersive activity stops SteamVR. The panel remains available for returning to the normal Steam session. The immersive activity belongs to the Steam session that opened it. Ending that session closes XR; a failed startup or stopped SteamVR also returns to the panel with an error instead of leaving a black scene. Enter SteamVR can then start a fresh connection.

SteamVR scene-application and dashboard events also guide Gamescope's game focus. While the dashboard is hidden, the guest agent resolves the live scene process's Steam app ID and promotes its focusable window. Opening the dashboard or ending the scene restores the previous order if no other client has replaced it. This keeps keyboard/gamepad input with the VR scene without game-specific IDs.

With Steam already running, python3 tools/test_quest_xr.py --serial SERIAL launches the immersive activity and verifies advancing owned images, tracked 6DoF, focus and SteamVR status. Add --require-controllers while holding both controllers. Results include telemetry and logcat in build/questxr-validation. Host tests and APK installation alone do not establish headset operation.

On Quest 3, a 45-second hardware run maintained focused tracked 6DoF, both controllers active, and advancing stereo images. A headset tester confirmed controller models and trigger animation. That run delivered about 8.5 new stereo images per second despite a 90 Hz XR session. That earlier measurement used the driver-direct presenter. With SteamVR's normal compositor, a native Vulkan scene passed its first submission and continued submitting stereo frames. Thumper and The Thrill of the Fight produced clean immersive scenes. SUPERHOT's Windows OpenXR build initially showed shared-image corruption: DXVK supplied a restricted mutable-image format list while SteamVR created its corresponding opaque shared images without one. Turnip can select different memory layouts for those descriptions. On the Quest bridge, the layer normalizes the known opaque-FD stereo-array creation chains to SteamVR's unrestricted list, without changing application-owned single-layer OpenVR images, DMA-BUF/modifier images or other targets. A headset capture then showed clean SUPERHOT scene geometry; interactive gameplay remains unverified. A subsequent 60-second shared-buffer dashboard run delivered about 43 new stereo images per second. Reusing Android pixel buffers raised the next 60-second run to about 68 received and 65 uploaded images per second, with valid focused tracking and no rejected frames. These dashboard results do not establish refresh-rate gameplay: game input, sustained game performance, and exact association with SteamVR's final compositor pose still require validation.

The native GPU-buffer channel passed 256 full-size buffer reuse cycles, including head/tail pixel checks and sRGB texture-view decoding. A subsequent SUPERHOT scene run delivered about 43 new stereo images/s and 58 XR draws/s over one minute, with focused tracking and no rejected frames. The earlier CPU-path SUPERHOT run uploaded about 28 images/s; these are separate runs, not a controlled benchmark. Capturing the source and eye images can delay frame consumption; the GPU receiver acknowledges stale frames without reading them and keeps the last private image until a fresh frame arrives. Missing completion still fails closed. frame_verify explicitly selects the CPU path for byte comparison.

The frame channel supports linear and sRGB RGBA8. SteamVR's final display image uses sRGB display values; Android decodes those during texture sampling and writes to an sRGB eye swapchain, encoding the display values once. A Quest color-chart capture verified that 64, 128, 192 and 224 grey patches retain those values; the previous sRGB source upload darkened them to approximately 13, 55, 134 and 190. The transport remains 8-bit SDR; this correction does not add HDR or higher precision gradients.

When available, XR_EXT_performance_settings requests sustained-high CPU and GPU performance for the running OpenXR session. These are runtime-managed hints; device power and thermal policies remain authoritative. Unsupported or rejected requests do not prevent startup. This does not change render resolution.

The manifest declares the supported Quest models using Meta's standard com.oculus.supportedDevices metadata. Without it, Quest 3 used compatibility mode and its refresh-rate API returned an empty capability list. With the declaration, the test runtime reported 72/80/90/120 Hz; a fresh normal launch used 72 Hz in both OpenXR telemetry and SteamVR's HMD property. DroidDeck leaves the refresh choice to the runtime. No forced refresh override is included.

The OpenVR driver maps OpenXR's asymmetric eye FOV to OpenVR's lower/upper Y projection bounds. A live Quest 3 check confirmed that SteamVR and native OpenXR now report the same vertical projection center; the previous mapping mirrored that offset. This applies to every VR scene, without game-specific rendering changes.

Experimental flat games in SteamVR

A game Steam lists without any VR support, launched while SteamVR runs, opens as a SteamVR panel automatically: the Proton and FEX launchers ask Steam whether the app supports VR (droiddeck-agent --steam-supports-vr; optional-VR games such as Thumper launch normally) and wrap it in droiddeck-steamvr-game (droiddeck-steamvr-flat). Adding droiddeck-steamvr-game %command% to a game's launch options does the same by hand. This runs a nested, unmodified Gamescope OpenVR backend for that game. Gamescope owns the GPU overlay, placement and input routing; no CPU screen capture or PipeWire service is used. The existing DroidDeck Vulkan synchronization layer remains enabled. On Quest, a connected XR receiver selects Gamescope's Vulkan texture sharing instead of DMA-BUF modifiers. Explicit environment overrides are preserved; other devices retain the upstream modifier default.

An upstream GPU cube overlay has been observed on Quest 3. Flat-game stability, controller interaction and performance still require hardware validation. This uses Valve's public Gamescope backend; the exact Steam Frame OS launch setup has not been verified.