CueVR

Stay in VR — and still hear what the person next to you is saying.

If you're deaf or hard of hearing, being in a headset can cut you off from the people right there in the room. Someone wants to tell you something, and suddenly you're pulling the headset off just to catch a sentence. CueVR fixes that.

A person beside you holds a push-to-talk key and speaks into your PC's microphone. CueVR transcribes their speech on-device and shows it as clean captions floating in your field of view, in real time — so a family member, friend, or helper can talk to you and you simply read it, without ever leaving the experience.

What CueVR does
CueVR captions a single microphone on your PC, one speaker at a time, controlled by push-to-talk. It's built for in-person, same-room communication — a direct line from the person next to you into your headset. (It is not an in-game voice-chat transcriber and does not caption other players' voices.)

Built for accessibility, on purpose
CueVR began as a tool for one deaf player who didn't want VR to mean missing what the people around them said. Every part of it is shaped around being readable and usable from inside a headset.

• Captions where you're looking — anchored in your view, not trapped in a desktop window you can't see with VR on.

• Read at your own pace — adjustable linger controls how long each line stays before it fades.

• Placed your way — six caption positions and adjustable text size, so they sit where they're easiest for you to read.

• Controlled, not constant — push-to-talk means captions appear only when someone's actually speaking to you.

• Private by default — transcription runs entirely on your own PC with a local speech model. No cloud, no account, no audio ever leaves your machine.

• Works over anything — runs as a SteamVR overlay on top of whatever game or app you're in.

Who it's for
Deaf and hard-of-hearing VR users who want to stay immersed and stay connected to the people physically around them — and anyone who wants a private, offline way to read what's being said to them in the headset.