Valve's Steam Link Is Coming To Pico Headsets

Valve’s Steam Hyperlink is coming to Pico headsets, a ByteDance beta take a look at registration kind confirms.

The shape, hosted at an official ByteDance URL, lets Pico homeowners join the beta take a look at of Steam Hyperlink. It lets registrants choose Pico 4 Extremely, Pico 4, and Pico Neo 3 Hyperlink, suggesting Valve plans to assist all three of ByteDance’s client headsets.

At present, the VR model of Steam Hyperlink is simply obtainable on Meta Quest headsets, through the Meta Horizon Retailer. The app launched in late 2023, and lets Quest homeowners virtually immediately wirelessly join on to SteamVR on their gaming PC at no cost.

References to Pico headsets within the Steam Hyperlink app have been first noticed by VR fanatic Luna, who found again in November that the app already runs on Pico headsets if sideloaded, with “some minor quirks”. It’s because Horizon OS and Pico OS are Android-based working techniques that assist OpenXR, the open-standard API that the Steam Hyperlink app makes use of.

Then, in January, VR fanatic Brad Lynch’s Discord datamining group found Pico 4 and Pico 4 Extremely controller icons in SteamVR, one other step within the strategy of supporting the headsets.

Lynch’s staff additionally found references to HTC’s Vive Focus 3 and Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient standalone headsets, suggesting Valve ultimately plans to make the Steam Hyperlink VR app obtainable for all extensively obtainable Android-based standalone VR headsets.

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We wonder if the VR model of Steam Hyperlink may additionally come to Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional in some unspecified time in the future, provided that visionOS 26 is including native assist for the PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers, which Sony will promote individually from the headset.

At present you should utilize the Steam Hyperlink iPad app on Imaginative and prescient Professional to play flatscreen video games, however to play PC VR video games on visionOS that you must use the open-source software ALVR, which lacks the end-to-end software program stack integration of Steam Hyperlink.