Valve launched Steam Link on Pico headsets and HTC Vive Focus Vision, making it easier to wirelessly stream SteamVR games from a PC.

The VR version of Steam Link first launched on Meta Quest headsets just under two years ago. As an Android OpenXR app, it actually already ran on Pico headsets if you extracted the APK from a Quest, with some quirks.

Now, Steam Link VR is officially available on the Pico Store and Viveport. The Pico Store version supports Pico 4 Ultra, Pico 4, and Pico Neo 3 Link, while the Viveport version currently supports Vive Focus Vision and will support Vive XR Elite later this year too.

  • Hond@piefed.socialEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Sadly doesnt seem to work right now with my Pico 4 in combination with CachyOS. Steamlink just doesnt want to establish a connection to my PC. I can stream a super laggy virtual pancake stream. But VR mode wont even connect at all.

    WiVRn and ALVR work flawlessly though. So i’m not too sad about it.

  • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    6 days ago

    This is awesome news! My PCVR box is my last machine still running windows because I didn’t know of a good way to stream to my Pico 4. I really wish Virtual Desktop made a remote app for Linux but if this works well enough I may finally be able to ditch Microsoft forever!

      • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        5 days ago

        I have not but looking at that link it seems like you’ve got to jump through flaming hoops while your balls are stapled to the floor to get FBT to work. So I’ma pass on all that if valve has something that works out of the box.

        • Supreme@reddthat.comEnglish
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          5 days ago

          Why do you think you have to jump through hoops? These are the steps to do it if your distro has it packaged:

          Option A: Use Distro-Native Packages #

          These packages come with lighthouse support enabled (Flatpak & Envision does NOT)

          Arch: Install wivrn-dashboard wivrn-server from AUR
Fedora: Install wivrn-dashboard via DNF
Gentoo: Emerge wivrn from Guru

          Open the WiVRn dashboard and under advanced settings, tick Enable SteamVR tracked devices support, then stop/start the server.

          Warning: distro-native packages are known to have issues with Flatpak Steam.

          Also, I’ve seen a lot of people report significant problems with Steam Link VR on Linux.

  • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Cool, but if they supported it better in general, it’d be great.

    I had to downgrade to previous version on Quest 3 because the latest was crashing constantly, and I know many people have had that exact problem for months.