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My experiences of Valve's VR on Linux
As the proud and excited owner of a shiny new Valve Index kit to go with my almost-new all-AMD rig, I thought I’d outline the journey to getting it all working, exclusively on Linux.
Khronos Group open sources the OpenXR Conformance Test Suite for VR & AR
In another important step forwards for free and open standards, plus the future of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, the Khronos Group have open sourced their OpenXR testing suite.
Valve moves on from OpenVR, goes all-in with OpenXR for SteamVR
Recently, Valve released a new SteamVR Beta that was aimed at developers with initial support for the OpenXR specification and it appears they're going all-in.
Valve adds OpenXR support to SteamVR in 'Developer Preview'
This is quite exciting for the future of Virtual Reality, as Valve as now properly given their backing to the OpenXR standard and added support into SteamVR.
xrdesktop continues expanding the Linux desktop into Virtual Reality with work sponsored by Valve
Today the hackers over at Collabora announced the release of xrdesktop 0.14, a Valve Software sponsored effort to bring Linux desktops into the VR world.
Valve drops support for SteamVR on macOS to focus on Linux & Windows
Today Valve made quite a big announcement about the future of VR, including an entire platform being dropped.
New SteamVR Beta has some essential Half-Life: Alyx fixes for Linux
While Half-Life: Alyx isn't on Linux (yet—it's coming), Valve are still trying to get it working as good as possible with Steam Play Proton and a new update for SteamVR is up.
Half-Life: Alyx arrives today (Linux should come later) and CS:GO gets Alyx cosmetics
As Half-Life: Alyx arrives today, just a reminder that it should hopefully be coming to Linux in a post-release update. On top of that, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive got some fancy cosmetics for it.
Valve reveals SteamVR 1.10 with a brand new Dashboard
Valve continue rapidly iterating on SteamVR, as they attempt to push the limits of what VR can do both on the hardware and software side with SteamVR 1.10 out now.
Steam hitting nearly 95 million 'monthly active' users and other Steam news
Valve are talking a lot more lately, actually telling us what's been going on and what some of their plans are. In their latest blog post, they had plenty to share.
Unity 2019.3 is now out - adds Google Stadia support and IL2CPP on Linux
Another big new release of the Unity game engine has today been released with 2019.3, full to the brim with massive tech enhancements.
Unity deprecating built-in XR (VR/AR etc) support for a new plugin system - Valve doing their own for SteamVR
While the state of Virtual/Mixed/Augmented Reality (XR) is constantly in flux and improving all the time, Unity have announced with Unity 2019.3 that their built-in XR support is being deprecated.
The original Half-Life games are now free to play until Half-Life: Alyx launches
Valve have made their original Half-Life titles all the way up to Half-Life 2: Episode Two free to play for a few months.
SteamVR 1.9 is out, Linux VR users may want to opt into a Beta
Valve just recently put out the latest big new build of their SteamVR platform, with something to be aware of if you're on Linux.
Set between Half-Life and Half-Life 2, Valve have now properly announced Half-Life: Alyx (updated)
Half-Life: Alyx, the first Half-Life title in far too long has now been officially revealed with the Steam store page for it now available and you can also pre-purchase.
Another big SteamVR update is out now, with plenty of Linux fixes for VR enthusiasts
SteamVR 1.8 is now out of Beta and with it, comes plenty of updates to the whole system with some big audio changes and some good sounding Linux fixes.
What's that? Another Steam Client Beta update? With a Linux platform filter? Yes it is
Valve have released the fourth Beta update for the Steam Client since the new Library design dropped and it's a good one.
Another Steam Client Beta is up, fixing a Linux issue and some Remote Play problems
Valve have again released another update to the Steam Library beta. There's still a lot of issues with it but they seem to be getting through the major problems.
Valve have already begun tweaking the new Steam Library Beta
With the new Steam Library Beta now available for everyone to test, Valve have started tweaking it based on feedback.
The new Steam Library Beta is officially out for you to try
The day has finally arrived, Valve have now put out a Beta for the massive overhaul to the Steam Library so you can try it yourself.
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