OpenTIE VR
Star Wars: TIE Fighter from inside a 3D cockpit, standalone on Meta Quest and PICO.
About
A VR port of OpenTIE, the open source rebuild of Star Wars: TIE Fighter, running standalone. Space is rendered in stereo around you and you sit in a 3D cockpit, with each craft's original instruments mounted around you. The concourse, briefings and cutscenes play on a big virtual screen.
Features
- Head-tracked stereo 3D space in flight
- 3D cockpits from X-Wing Revival for the TIE Fighter, Advanced, Interceptor, Bomber and Gunboat (included), lit by the sun like the ships
- Each craft's original live instruments around you
- Full flight control on the controllers, remappable in Settings → Controller
- Laser pointer for the menus; click a text field (pilot name) and an on-screen keyboard opens
- Menus over passthrough on Meta Quest
Manual
Installation
- Sideload the APK with SideQuest or
adb install -r OpenTIE-VR-v0.1.6-beta.apk. - From the Steam folder
STAR WARS Tie Fighter, copycollectors_cdto/sdcard/OpenTIE/TIE95andremasteredto/sdcard/OpenTIE/TIE98on the headset. - Optional, for the TIE Defender and Missile Boat 3D cockpits: copy your X-Wing Alliance game folder to
/sdcard/OpenXWA(the same folder OpenXWA VR uses), or just copyFLIGHTMODELS/TIECOCKPIT.OPTto/sdcard/OpenTIE/. - Start OpenTIE VR from Unknown Sources and allow "access to all files" when asked.
Good to know
- The APK contains no game data: you need your own copy of the game.
- The TIE Defender and Missile Boat use X-Wing Alliance's TIE cockpit from your own copy (see install). The small screens built into the X-Wing Revival cockpits are dark; the original instruments are mounted around you instead.
- Motion blur, temporal upscaling and ambient occlusion are off in VR.
- Passthrough behind the menus works on Meta Quest only; on PICO the menus float in front of black.
- PICO needs PICO OS 5.9.0 or newer: only from that version does the PICO runtime work with the generic Khronos OpenXR loader the port uses.
- The PICO build is untested: if it does not start, or the controllers do nothing, please open an issue on GitHub.
adb logcat -s SDL/APP:*shows how far it gets, which is the useful thing to paste in.
Controller mapping
| Input | Flight | Menus |
|---|---|---|
| Left stick | Pitch and yaw | Arrow keys, one step per push |
| Right stick | Roll (left/right), throttle lever (up/down, stays where you leave it) | |
| Right trigger | Fire | Click |
| Left trigger | Target / roll-throttle modifier | Click |
| Right grip | High-angle view | Right-click |
| A / B | Next target / nearest fighter | Enter / Escape |
| X / Y | Target my attacker / match target speed | Y = Space |
| Left / right stick click | Back to cockpit view / hyperspace | |
| Left Menu button | Pause (hold 1 s: recenter) | Escape (hold 1 s: recenter) |
| Left grip + A / B | Full throttle / throttle down | |
| Left grip + X / Y | Clear target / flight menu | |
| Left grip + left trigger | Cycle firing mode | |
| Left grip + left / right stick click | Cycle weapon / cycle shield direction |
Button names are those of the Meta Quest controllers; PICO controllers use the same layout. The star map, goals and in-flight menus use the menu controls.
Download
Install from your browser
Over USB, for Meta Quest and PICO: installs the app and copies your own game files to the right place. No SideQuest, no adb. Works in Chrome or Edge on a PC, Mac or Android phone.
The installer needs JavaScript. Use the manual download below.
First time? Before you start
- Turn on developer mode. Quest: Meta Horizon app on your phone → Devices → your headset → Headset settings → Developer mode. PICO: Settings → General → About → tap Software version 7 times, then Settings → Developer → turn on USB debugging.
- Connect the headset to this computer with a USB cable that carries data (not a charge-only cable).
- Close SideQuest and Meta Quest Developer Hub. If you use adb, run
adb kill-serverfirst: only one program can talk to the headset at a time. - Windows: if the headset doesn't show up in the list, install the Meta Quest ADB driver.
- After pressing Connect, put on the headset and allow USB debugging for this computer.
OpenTIE VR v0.1.6-beta (Meta Quest + PICO) latestv0.1.6-beta · 20 Oct 2026
All releases: github.com/SgtBilko76/OpenTIE-VR/releases
Need help or found a bug? Ask in #support on our Discord, and get new releases in #new-releases.
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Credits: Based on OpenTIE and the Aeron engine by elyosh. 3D cockpit models: X-Wing Revival by Raptor007 and contributors (originally from the X-Wing Alliance Upgrade project). Pictures: captured on a Meta Quest 3.