I'll see if we can do any better, but we probably can't. This is a platform bug and the gvr folks are looking into it.

cc santos (though note this is a public currently)

Is this better? 

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  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/94d2fced205e76938245203132e0fe6119f077f3

commit 94d2fced205e76938245203132e0fe6119f077f3
Author: Michael Thiessen <mthiesse@chromium.org>
Date: Fri Jun 01 18:53:09 2018

VR: Avoid showing the gvrlayout when a popup is visible on standalones.

There's currently a platform bug where the 2D app behind the popup is
rendered on standalones when it shouldn't be, and as we're in VR it
shows the gvrLayout, including 'x' and gear icons. We get a slightly
less bad experience by hiding the gvrlayout. See the screenshots in the
bug.

Bug:  847647 
Change-Id: Ib1eed670b116e6c17e72c742c356b2d188194c10
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/1082004
Reviewed-by: Biao She <bshe@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Michael Thiessen <mthiesse@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#563740}
[modify] https://crrev.com/94d2fced205e76938245203132e0fe6119f077f3/chrome/android/java/src/org/chromium/chrome/browser/vr_shell/VrShellImpl.java

Alright I've done my best, remaining issues have to be solved at the platform level.

Santos, you mentioned you were looking into this issue? Had an internal bug been filed we could link to here?

Looks good on Canary.

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  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/b97240627f05c7d12c6d6bc29a5cff56194e0368

commit b97240627f05c7d12c6d6bc29a5cff56194e0368
Author: Michael Thiessen <mthiesse@chromium.org>
Date: Tue Jun 12 19:05:48 2018

VR: Avoid showing the gvrlayout when a popup is visible on standalones.

There's currently a platform bug where the 2D app behind the popup is
rendered on standalones when it shouldn't be, and as we're in VR it
shows the gvrLayout, including 'x' and gear icons. We get a slightly
less bad experience by hiding the gvrlayout. See the screenshots in the
bug.

TBR=mthiesse@chromium.org

(cherry picked from commit 94d2fced205e76938245203132e0fe6119f077f3)

Bug:  847647 
Change-Id: Ib1eed670b116e6c17e72c742c356b2d188194c10
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/1082004
Reviewed-by: Biao She <bshe@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Michael Thiessen <mthiesse@chromium.org>
Cr-Original-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#563740}
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/1097706
Reviewed-by: Michael Thiessen <mthiesse@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/branch-heads/3440@{#307}
Cr-Branched-From: 010ddcfda246975d194964ccf20038ebbdec6084-refs/heads/master@{#561733}
[modify] https://crrev.com/b97240627f05c7d12c6d6bc29a5cff56194e0368/chrome/android/java/src/org/chromium/chrome/browser/vr_shell/VrShellImpl.java

Removing milestone to track DD fixes.

This looks fixed to me when I tried to repro. Let me know if I'm missing something.