Upshift VR Edition

Upshift VR Edition

Upshift, tuned for headsets.

This is an add-on for Upshift. When you run Minecraft with Vivecraft and Upshift, the add-on activates automatically and adapts the upscaler to stereo rendering. Nothing changes when you play flat — VR features stay completely inert until a real VR session is detected.

What it does in VR

1. Per-eye temporal upscaling — The temporal pass keeps a separate history buffer for the left and the right eye. A single shared buffer would mix the two views and destroy stereo depth.
2. Symmetric auto-resolution — The dynamic scaler measures the combined GPU work of both eyes and moves the internal resolution of both lenses together, so the eyes never disagree.
3. Steadier temporal clamp — In VR a sub-pixel shimmer reads as a wobble, so the neighbourhood clamp is tightened (1.5 px → 1.0 px). You trade a sliver of micro-detail for a rock-steady image.
4. Frame generation steps aside — Upshift's built-in interpolator is disabled in stereo mode; the headset's own reprojection (OpenXR / SteamVR) owns the extra frames.
5. Hands and overlays at native rate — Controllers/hands are composited at the native frame rate, and the flat 2D performance panel is hidden in VR, replaced by a single diagnostic line.

Requirements

Sodium is recommended (the settings pages live in Sodium's video settings), but it is not required.

Install

1. Install Upshift 1.6.4+.
2. Install Vivecraft for 26.2.
3. Drop upshift_vr_edition-1.0.0.jar into your mods folder.
4. Launch with Fabric. Enter VR in game — the add-on enables itself.

Configuration

All VR options appear in Sodium → Video Settings → Upshift VR Edition (five pages: General, Frame Generation, Overlay, Foveated, Advanced), or edit config/upshift_vr.json directly:

{
  "vrEnabled": true,
  "vrTemporalEnabled": true,
  "vrTemporalClampWeight": 0.08,
  "vrAutoResolution": true,
  "vrTargetFps": 72,
  "vrFrameGenEnabled": false,
  "vrHideFlatOverlay": true,
  "vrProjectOverlayToWrist": false,
  "vrOverlayMode": 0
}

Settings can be changed at runtime.

Safety / compatibility

• VR activation is runtime-detected: the add-on does nothing if Vivecraft is installed but VR is not active, and nothing if Vivecraft is absent.
• No compile-time dependency on Vivecraft classes.
• Works on both the OpenGL and the Vulkan backend.
• Compatible with Sodium; uses @Inject/@Redirect/@WrapOperation, never @Overwrite.
• Client-side only.