{"id":545915,"date":"2026-07-17T11:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/545915\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:13:08","slug":"steamvr-beta-gets-a-big-update-ahead-of-the-steam-frame-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/545915\/","title":{"rendered":"SteamVR Beta gets a big update ahead of the Steam Frame release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve released SteamVR Beta version 2.17.4 which brings more Steam features into the VR environment, as they continue preparing for the Steam Frame release.<\/p>\n<p>To get it all to work you need to be opted into both the SteamVR Beta and the Steam Client Beta. Valve said it&#8217;s an &#8220;initial preview, with more features coming in additional updates during this beta cycle&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/16999327731784271295gol2.webp\" data-fancybox=\"images\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"SteamVR Beta\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/16999327731784271295gol2.webp\" alt=\"SteamVR Beta\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1296\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">From the official <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/app\/250820\/view\/698769997400377000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">changelog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>SteamVR Dashboard:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nIn-game Steam features are now accessible, including viewing achievements, community guides, notes, (and more).&#13;<br \/>\nThe Quick Access Menu (familiar to Steam Deck users) is now available on the dashboard, integrating notifications, volume, brightness, and battery status.&#13;<br \/>\nThe VR Dashboard bar now exposes shortcuts to common tasks on hover, such as exiting and redocking.&#13;<br \/>\nAdded new slider in Quick Access to control environmental and camera brightness.&#13;<br \/>\nOverlay apps can be quit directly within the dashboard.&#13;<br \/>\nImproved orientation of overlays positioned above or below the player.&#13;<br \/>\nQuick Access Menu shows batteries for additional VR devices.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Steam Link:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nFix an issue causing 1 frame to be dropped every few seconds.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>OpenXR:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nFix XR_EXT_view_configurations_changed event returning width for both the recommended width and height.&#13;<br \/>\nFix XrEventDataUserPresenceChangedEXT&#8217;s session parameter being unset when using XR_EXT_user_presence&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Linux:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nImprovements to stability and logging of error states on Linux.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\ud83c\udf10 External Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/app\/250820\/view\/698769997400377000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">store.steampowered.com<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tArticle taken from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GamingOnLinux.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valve released SteamVR Beta version 2.17.4 which brings more Steam features into the VR environment, as they continue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[85,46,125,340,341,342],"class_list":["post-545915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}