Visor

Visor is a Minecraft modpack for a small VR-enabled test server. Its purpose is narrow: run mods on a real server with real players, some on a VR headset and some on a flat screen, and see how they actually behave in VR versus how we expect them to behave. GUIs that assume a 2D screen, interactions that don't map cleanly to hand controllers, render/perf quirks that only show up in a headset — this pack exists to surface that stuff before it ships anywhere else.

It is not a curated "best VR experience" pack — it's a test bed, so the mod list will shift as things get added or ruled out during testing.

Disclaimer

I am not responsible for server bans — check with server admins if you have concerns about running this pack against a server you don't control.

VR Support

• Visor
  • Core VR mod — adds headset/controller support to Minecraft
• VisorEssentials
  • Companion mod for Visor, bundles quality-of-life fixes for VR play

What to Test

When trying a mod in this pack, the useful comparison is:

• Does it work the same for a VR player as a flat player?
• Do its menus, tooltips, and interactions make sense with motion controllers?
• Does anything about VR rendering (scale, FOV, world-space UI) break its assumptions?

Notable Mods

• Simple Voice Chat
  • Proximity voice chat — worth checking positional audio against VR head tracking
• Jade
  • In-world block/entity info overlay — a good example of a HUD element that needs to work in VR
• Roughly Enough Items (REI)
  • Recipe viewer with a GUI-heavy interface, useful for testing VR menu interaction
• Xaero's Minimap & World Map
  • Minimap/map UI, another screen-space element to sanity-check in headset
• Axiom
  • In-game world editor, exercises a lot of UI and camera interaction at once
• Performance: Sodium, Lithium, Krypton, FerriteCore, Indium, Entity Culling
  • Keeps framerate high, which matters more in VR than on a flat screen

The full, always-current mod list (client-only vs. shared) is generated in modlist.md.

Versions

• Minecraft 1.20.1, Fabric
• Managed with packwiz