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Getting started with Amethyst

Requirements and installation

Amethyst works with local PCs only.

Amethyst only works on Windows 10 20H2 or newer

You need a roomscale VR headset with tracked motion controllers

You must have roomscale tracking for your head and hands (You should be able to move freely around your room). Amethyst is only for lower body tracking. Amethyst can only track your legs, waist, and elbows. It supports all VR headsets that work with SteamVR, and the Meta Quest series of headsets.

You need a large enough room (for Kinect)

When using Kinect, you should stand at least 6 feet (2 meters) away from the sensor and have it at head height pointing down at you. You should be standing 9 feet (3 meters) away for the best tracking.

Shadow and Plutosphere (Cloud PCs in general) do not work.

Any attempt to jank OSC into working remotely is entirely your own responsibility. Please don’t do it. We’re also not giving support for that really old shadow client server thingie that one person made. It’s literally so old might as well be a dinosaur. If we see you asking about Shadow, we will point to this exact spot.
SET UP AMETHYST FOR PC.

How to install Amethyst for PC

Amethyst also works with VRCHAT STANDALONE on Quest via OSC:

THIS IS FOR STANDALONE QUEST VRCHAT, CLICK THE BUTTON ABOVE FOR PC!

How to setup Amethyst with OSC for Quest standalone

Before anything else, you must have a supported device to use with Amethyst.
By default the following is supported:



If you don’t have a device already:


Instructions about buying a Kinect and adapter

TLDR: Do not buy adapters on Amazon, and do not buy the Xbox One Kinect.


For Xbox 360 Kinect users:


Xbox 360 Kinect setup

For Xbox One Kinect users:


Xbox One Kinect setup

Help and support

You can reach us here on Discord:


K2VR Community Discord

Last updated on 01/01/1970 Edit on GitHub