Steam Hyperlink VR is now out there on Pico headsets and HTC’s Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient, making it simpler to wirelessly stream SteamVR video games from a PC.
The VR model of Steam Hyperlink first launched on Meta Quest headsets just below two years in the past. As an Android OpenXR app, it really already ran on Pico headsets in case you extracted the APK from a Quest, with some quirks.
Now, Steam Hyperlink VR is formally out there on the Pico Retailer and Viveport. The Pico Retailer model helps Pico 4 Extremely, Pico 4, and Pico Neo 3 Hyperlink, whereas the Viveport model at the moment helps Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient and can assist Vive XR Elite later this 12 months too.
It was already attainable to make use of PC VR on Pico headsets and Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient. The built-in Pico Join and Vive Streaming options are free, Man Godin’s Digital Desktop is out there for $25 on each headsets, and Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient even helps lossless PC VR through a DisplayPort cable. However Steam Hyperlink does not require any additional software program in your PC, and launches instantly into SteamVR.
Steam Hyperlink additionally has a flatscreen mode, which helps you to play your conventional Steam video games in a floating window inside your standalone headset’s residence system, forwarding enter from a Bluetooth gamepad when you have one related.
Valve says it additionally plans to launch an OpenXR APK for different headset makers to make use of to validate Steam Hyperlink works, and for customers of unsupported Android OpenXR headsets to strive. This means that the corporate may very well be gearing as much as launch on Samsung’s upcoming headset, set to introduce Google’s Android XR subsequent month.
“As all the time, we’re enthusiastic about our continued work in SteamVR, and admire all the suggestions from the neighborhood alongside the way in which”, Valve notes.