If you have a wireless VR headset and a Linux system, you might be excited to know that Valve’s Steam Link VR now appears to actually work.
Valve haven’t actually formally announced it yet, but with SteamVR Beta 2.13.2 you should be able to use Steam Link to connect up to your Linux PC to play games on Meta Quest headsets. This Steam Link VR feature originally launched for Windows back in November 2023, so we’ve been waiting quite some time for this to arrive on Linux – where VR has historically not been great.
On Valve’s GitHub page there’s a bug thread with multiple confirmed reports of it working, although it’s clearly still a work in progress with game support being limited as some don’t work at all yet. Also keep in mind that Steam Flatpak is not a supported configuration for it, you’ll need a proper Steam package installed.
Nice to see progress on it though, as eventually that will be another gap with Windows gaming closed off giving more people a chance to switch to Linux without losing access to streaming their VR games.
My Valve Index continues chugging along (much better since moving from NVIDIA to an AMD GPU), although perhaps I’ll have to upgrade soon to Valve’s next VR kit or whatever the Steam Frame turns out to be.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.