OrbitOverlay, VR Gallery, Mixtape, Hexpad, Prisma, Flux and Focalhttps://erik1028.github.io/news.html2026-10-18T21:37:14ZErik1028https://github.com/Erik1028 https://github.com/Erik1028/Mixtape/releases/tag/v0.22.02026-10-18T21:37:14Z2026-10-18T21:37:14Z

A third look in Settings › Appearance › Look, next to Modern and Windows 95: a sci-fi HUD. Near-black panels on a faint grid, corners cut instead of rounded, yellow caption tags, cyan for whatever is on or playing, condensed type.

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.15.12026-10-18T21:36:10Z2026-10-18T21:36:10Z

The watch comes into view without a hitch: the volume and the microphone are read in the background (a call to Windows' audio took up to 14 ms of its first frame). The volume mixer works in the background: in VR it no longer held OrbitOverlay up for ~9 ms every second or two. The laser's mouse and the keyboard's keys go to Windows on a thread of their own: an app hooked into the mouse that answers slowly no longer holds the overlay up (4-10…

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.15.02026-10-18T20:58:36Z2026-10-18T20:58:36Z

New watch widgets: Photo (your newest VRChat photos), Weather, Folder (widgets grouped behind one card), Friends online and Session recap (from VRCX), On this day (a… The editor's widget list has categories and a search (type in the desktop window). Gaze focus (Desktops > "Focus the monitor you look at"): the monitor you look at is full size, the others tuck in small beside it - a row of three is a lot narrower. It…

https://github.com/Erik1028/Flux/releases/tag/v1.52026-10-17T23:17:50Z2026-10-17T23:17:50Z

Flux now has the same window design as Prisma and Mixtape, and it can warn you about GPU temperature and hot-spot temperature as well as VRAM. Just replace your old Flux.exe; your settings and leak log carry over.

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.14.12026-10-17T06:09:35Z2026-10-17T06:09:35Z

The Notifications widget opens into a big view like the others: the last notifications, newest first, with where they came from and when; the stick scrolls, Clear… Cyber: the opened clock is a real HUD (the yellow time card, the dial, the date, the day so far, time in VR, a timer), and so are Now playing, the frame rate and the… Theater mode: the dimming goes all the way round you and fades out softly above and below - no edge to see. In Cyber it is a night city: a neon horizon, a synthwave…

https://github.com/Erik1028/Prisma/releases/tag/v2.1.02026-10-16T17:14:43Z2026-10-16T17:14:43Z

The old header is gone: a borderless title strip is the window caption now — the logo (About), the power button, a "now lighting" card (what the lights are doing… The body is two cards: a rail with your devices and profiles, and one page with Effects, Color, the live preview and Tuning. Every effect has its own small picture, shown on the effect tiles, on each device (what that device really runs) and on each profile.

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.14.02026-10-16T14:59:10Z2026-10-16T14:59:10Z

Settings > General > Language: English or Magyar, in every style. The Windows volume works in VR: with Virtual Desktop the apps follow the Windows slider, the volume keys and Hexpad's knob, each keeping its own balance (Wrist >… A new Volume mixer widget: the apps playing, each with its own slider and a tap on its icon to mute; opened, it is the whole mixer (in the retro styles the Windows 95…

https://github.com/Erik1028/VRGallery/releases/tag/v2.16.22026-10-16T13:12:02Z2026-10-16T13:12:02Z

Browsing by year and month works properly again: going back to Days after Years shows your photos, not the year cards.

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.13.12026-10-16T11:37:46Z2026-10-16T11:37:46Z

The Style list in the Windows 7, Classic Mac and Terminal settings now offers Cyber too (it had six styles there).

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.13.02026-10-16T11:10:58Z2026-10-16T11:10:58Z

Five new styles in Settings > Look > Style, besides Modern and Windows 95: Windows XP, Windows 7, Classic Mac, Terminal and Cyber. Each one draws the watch, the… Windows XP: Luna windows, Tahoma, green progress blocks; opened widgets become Date and Time Properties, Task Manager and Windows Media Player; notifications are tray… Windows 7: glass windows, the Control Panel look, the On-Screen Keyboard and the Windows 7 Minesweeper.

https://github.com/Erik1028/ajazz-dock/releases/tag/v2.0.02026-10-16T06:34:56Z2026-10-16T06:34:56Z

The first release under the Hexpad name (it was AjazzDock 1.0.0).

https://github.com/Erik1028/VRGallery/releases/tag/v2.16.12026-10-16T06:17:28Z2026-10-16T06:17:28Z

VR Gallery opens on a new Home page and can wear a Windows 95 look; everything since 2.0.0 in one release.

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.12.32026-10-15T16:17:26Z2026-10-15T16:17:26Z

Hexpad's keys and knobs on the watch now move as smoothly as Hexpad sends them, instead of a few times a second.

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.12.22026-10-15T16:13:46Z2026-10-15T16:13:46Z

The VRChat room widget opens right on the watch: tap it and it grows into the list of who is in the world, your friends, how long you have been there and who left… The Hexpad widget opens on the watch too: tap it and it grows into the whole dock - keys to press, knobs to drag and the page you are on.

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.12.12026-10-15T15:47:42Z2026-10-15T15:47:42Z

The watch's volume now works with Virtual Desktop's speakers. That device ignores Windows' own volume (the Windows slider does nothing there either), so the watch sets… The Microphone widget works with Virtual Desktop's microphone.

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.12.02026-10-15T15:31:29Z2026-10-15T15:31:29Z

Watch pages: your custom face can have several pages - swipe sideways with the laser or tap the dots at the bottom (Windows 95 style: page buttons along the bottom).… New widgets: Microphone (tap to mute), Notifications (the last ones you got), Button group, and Minesweeper - a small tile that grows into the game when you tap it (in… Clock designs: Flip, Outline, Stacked, Segment and Words clocks; Squircle, Classic, Minimal, Roman and Swiss station analog clocks; a new 1 x 1 analog clock like the…

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.11.02026-10-15T12:16:54Z2026-10-15T12:16:54Z

Each widget on the watch can have its own design: Tint, Solid, Two-tone, Header, Outline or Glass, or the normal card. Pick a colour for each widget: Auto or one of 13 colours. Two-tone also takes a second colour, or makes a matching one for you. In the watch layout editor, select a widget to see the Style and Colour choices with small previews. "Use on all widgets" copies the look to the whole face.

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.10.12026-10-15T07:41:14Z2026-10-15T07:41:14Z

The first start after updating to 1.10.0 stopped with an error while switching your colours to Bento. Fixed; your settings were not changed by it. The "What's new" window also lists what 1.10.0 brought (the new Bento look), since that version never got to show it.

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.10.02026-10-15T07:35:59Z2026-10-15T07:35:59Z

The watch is redesigned (Modern style; the Windows 95 style is unchanged):

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.9.42026-10-15T06:05:07Z2026-10-15T06:05:07Z

While you hold the trigger on a screen, that screen keeps your laser even past its edge. The cursor stays on the edge, so dragging a window to the very top of a monitor… The other hand can no longer take the mouse in the middle of a drag. Before, the mouse jumped to the other laser when the dragging one went past the edge or held still.

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.9.32026-10-15T05:50:20Z2026-10-15T05:50:20Z

After an update, a "What's new" window lists what changed since your old version. In VR it appears in front of you. You can grab it and scroll it with the stick. On the desktop it appears over the settings window.

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.9.22026-10-15T05:33:16Z2026-10-15T05:33:16Z

The watch's volume widget controlled the Windows default device for the "multimedia" role, and only looked for a new one every 5 seconds. When Virtual Desktop made… It now follows the same default device the Windows volume icon uses, checks it every second and switches at once. The log names the device it controls, and says so if a device refuses or ignores a new level.

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.9.12026-10-14T17:37:54Z2026-10-14T17:37:54Z

OrbitOverlay used to update once per game frame. Measured with VRChat on a 90 Hz headset, that was 63-83 times a second, while SteamVR presented 75-85 frames. Whenever… It now runs on its own high-resolution clock at the headset's refresh rate (measured: 90 ticks/s, 0.23 ms spread). Every frame SteamVR shows, reprojected ones included… It no longer pauses for ~35 ms when SteamVR doesn't signal a frame in time.

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.9.02026-10-14T17:31:19Z2026-10-14T17:31:19Z

Point at the lower part of a monitor or mirrored window and a bar appears under it. It has a Theater button and theater mode's settings: Dim (how dark the world gets)… In theater mode the bar under the big screen has the same settings, which apply live. You can still switch monitors and exit from there. The same settings are under Settings > Layouts > Theater mode. You can also turn the bar off there.

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.8.22026-10-14T16:51:35Z2026-10-14T16:51:35Z

The big screen always goes in front of the middle of your monitors, whichever one plays. The middle monitor grows out of its place. One off to the side fades in where the big screen is, with a slight zoom, and fades out there when you leave; it no longer… Switching monitors is a real cross-fade: the new one fades in over the old one, which stays solid underneath until it is covered, so the world no longer shows through…

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.8.12026-10-14T16:43:20Z2026-10-14T16:43:20Z

Theater mode: the screen shows up where your monitors are. 1.8.0 put it where you were looking when you tapped the button, which is always the watch. Lying back with… The dim behind the theater screen is now a wall just behind the screen, bent around you. Before, it was a sheet right in front of your eyes, which SteamVR could draw… The watch animates at your headset's refresh rate (it was capped at 45 fps).

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.8.02026-10-14T16:21:13Z2026-10-14T16:21:13Z

A new Theater watch button: the monitor or window you used last becomes one big curved screen in front of you (2.8 m wide at 2.5 m by default). The other panels and the… Grab it to move it, the stick or both hands to size it; it stays curved around you at any distance. Point at the screen and a switcher shows up under it: one button per monitor and mirrored window to swap what plays (they cross-fade in place), and Exit.

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.7.12026-10-14T15:46:01Z2026-10-14T15:46:01Z

The cursor no longer jumps to the centre. With 'Keep clicks from the game' on, the game got its input back every time the laser crossed a panel edge, the gap between two panels or the edge of a key, and VRChat moves its cursor to the centre each time that happens. Now the input stays with…

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.7.02026-10-14T15:31:42Z2026-10-14T15:31:42Z

Orbit is now OrbitOverlay. Same app, new name. Updating from 1.6 moves your install over by itself: Orbit.exe becomes OrbitOverlay.exe, and the shortcuts and the admin task follow. Your settings stay where they were.

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.6.02026-10-14T14:32:04Z2026-10-14T14:32:04Z

Your stream dock in VR. If you use an Ajazz AKP03 stream dock with the Hexpad app, Orbit can now show it as a panel you place over the real one on your desk:

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.5.22026-10-14T14:07:28Z2026-10-14T14:07:28Z

Plain lines instead of rings. In the Modern style every value - batteries, frame rate, reprojection, GPU time, VRAM, CPU, memory, volume, the timer - is now a big number over a plain line in your accent colour. Batteries are rows (name, percentage, line); a single device or a 1x1 widget shows one…

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.5.12026-10-14T13:36:54Z2026-10-14T13:36:54Z

Fix: nothing sticks out of a widget any more. The opened player's buttons fit (the next button was cut off), rings and gauges keep their dot inside the card, battery percentages and the timer ring have a margin, and the layout editor's buttons have room around their names. Every widget at every…

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.5.02026-10-14T13:30:39Z2026-10-14T13:30:39Z

New: a custom watch face of widgets. Settings > Wrist > Watch face: Custom, then Edit layout.

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.4.02026-10-14T12:06:35Z2026-10-14T12:06:35Z

New: an optional Windows 95 style. Settings > Look > Style: Modern (default, as before) or Windows 95. It switches instantly and can be switched back the same way.

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.3.32026-10-13T17:33:36Z2026-10-13T17:33:36Z

Opening Orbit's settings panel no longer counts as "an overlay is open" for VRChat avatar parameters. Avatar add-ons such as DXOverlay now react only to real overlays …

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.3.22026-10-13T17:23:24Z2026-10-13T17:23:24Z

Wrist > Lock position: the grip no longer moves or resizes the watch, so you can't nudge it by accident while grabbing something else. Gripping a locked watch gives a…

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.3.12026-10-13T17:07:41Z2026-10-13T17:07:41Z

If you're on 1.3.0, open Settings > General, press Check for updates, then Update to 1.3.1. Orbit downloads this release, checks it, installs it over itself and starts again - your settings and shortcuts stay as they are.

https://github.com/Erik1028/OrbitOverlay/releases/tag/v1.3.02026-10-13T16:59:27Z2026-10-13T16:59:27Z

Orbit is a lightweight SteamVR overlay for Windows: a watch on your wrist, your monitors - or single app windows - as curved screens around you with a laser mouse, a full VR keyboard, and a settings panel you can grab in VR.

https://github.com/Erik1028/Mixtape/releases/tag/v0.21.02026-10-02T12:14:25Z2026-10-02T12:14:25Z

The first iPods hid a game. Windows 95 hid its credits. This version of Mixtape hides a few things of its own — they're not in any menu, and these notes won't tell you where they are.

https://github.com/Erik1028/Mixtape/releases/tag/v0.20.02026-10-01T10:41:46Z2026-10-01T10:41:46Z

Click-wheel iPods (Classic, nano, 5G) can show a song's lyrics while it plays — press the centre button. Mixtape now puts them there.