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- Astro VR
Crash Landing
Big and small bug fixes. Fixed hard crash when narration enabled and user attempts to edit a user tour with narration enabled. Fixed bug where mouse clicks would sometimes not work near stars. Restore time state when to…
Patch notes3 changesFixPerformance - Astro VR
Air Leak
Minor corrections to tours. Improvements/Fixes: Turned off screen data during a tour. Turned off data on right hand controller while main menu is up. Added a "selected item only" when cycling through label settings. Cor…
Patch notes3 changesFixGameplay - Astro VR
Space Tourist Mouse Correction
Corrected bug where using the mouse to edit a tour destination did not work.
Patch notes - Astro VR
Encyclopedia Galactica
The Encyclopedia Galactica update adds a descriptive paragraph for all 12,485 objects in AstroVR narrated by Stephen Hawking. Also added are automatically generated tours for solar system planets and moons, small planet…
Patch notes3 changesUI/audioGameplay - Astro VR
Ship of the Imagination, Repaired
Re-added lost default configs for some controllers and added a text based search for star systems by name. Please report BUGS, especially with controllers. Like many Indie developers I typically have no way of knowing t…
Patch notes2 changesGameplay - Astro VR
Solar Eclipse
Updated solar system data for the April 8 eclipse and some bug fixes. Updates: Updated all solar system data from JPL. Bug Fixes: Corrected bug where planet and star sizes sometimes became unscaled. Corrected orbit drif…
Patch notes4 changesFixGameplay - Astro VR
Binary Star System
Star systems of all types now have motion based on Keplerian orbital data within a system. The motion of binaries, ternaries, and above are all simulated including black hole - star binaries (see Cygnus X-3) which tend…
Patch notes7 changesFixGameplay - Astro VR
Solar Flare
Added detail to various types of stars such as flares, Roche lobe, tidal bulge, and mass transfer. Flares are a periodic effect based on star type. In close binary systems, such as between a compact object and star, the…
Patch notes2 changesFixGameplay - Astro VR
Fuzzy Optics
Minor fixes and updates plus cheap webcam AR. You can select a webcam device, attached to your computer, to provide a background for Astro VR. Note that some HMDs (like Vive Pro) function as a webcam, hence you may be a…
Patch notes3 changesFixGameplay - Astro VR
Home World
Astro VR has been updated with a Tutorial and start location near Earth. Did you know that the sun and moon are only about 0.5 degrees in diameter when viewed from Earth's surface? Objects that are less than 5 degrees a…
Patch notes4 changesFixGameplay - Astro VR
The Nova Correction
Corrected bug in stellar data where an incorrect magnitude made the star extremely bright. Added pulsar with small companion star, added current scale text in screen mode.
Patch notes - Astro VR
Pulsar Planet
Added a box around the highlighted text and stellar data below. Also various bug fixes and pulsar planets (neutron stars with planets). Corrected exoplanet mass estimation formula and applied to existing data. Improveme…
Patch notes5 changesFixGameplay
