Desktop controls

With no VR headset detected, RetroXR falls back to a desktop mode driven by mouse and keyboard. Everything in the room still works — you are just reaching into it with a cursor instead of your hands.

Moving and looking

Input	Does
W A S D	Move
Mouse	Look
Ctrl (hold)	Crouch
Caps Lock (hold)	Walk — slower, for fine positioning

Handling things

Input	Does
Left-click	Grab or pick up whatever is under the cursor
Ctrl + Left-click	Drop the held object
Scroll wheel	Push or pull the held object along the view ray
Middle-mouse drag	Rotate the held object in place
Tab	Toggle the spawn menu

Two objects — the ray gun and the TV remote — snap to a fixed position on screen while held, the way an FPS weapon does. Those need Ctrl + Left-click to drop; a plain click will not do it, and the scroll wheel does nothing while they are snapped. Everything else drops on a plain click too.

If you are holding the ray gun, left-click fires it rather than grabbing.

Playing a game

When a running system has input focus, the keyboard acts as a retro joypad. The current mapping is always visible under the CONTROLS tab:

Control	Keys
D-pad	W A S D
Face buttons	Numpad 1=B, 2=A, 3=Y, 4=X
Shoulders	L = Q / R / Numpad 3 · R = E / Y / Numpad 6
Triggers	L2 = Z · R2 = X
Stick clicks	L3 = C · R3 = V
Select / Start	Shift / Enter
Left stick	T G F H — up, down, left, right
Right stick	I K J L — up, down, left, right

A real gamepad plugged into the PC works too, and is a great deal more pleasant — see controllers and peripherals.

Reading a book

With a book held: E turns to the next page, Q to the previous one.