GamingOnLinux Article RSS For: Virtual Reality (VR)

Draft code submitted to KDE Plasma turns it into a full VR desktop

Liam Dawe — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:37:01 +0000

A developer has submitted a draft to the KDE team for KWin to hook up a full Plasma VR mode and it looks pretty awesome.

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Valve's documentation highlights the different ways standalone games run on Steam Frame

Liam Dawe — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:06:49 +0000

With the upcoming new Steam Frame hardware from Valve, they want to get as many games as possible running - and there's multiple ways for developers to do it.

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Steam Frame and Steam Machine will be another good boost for Flatpaks and desktop Linux overall too

Liam Dawe — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 11:35:03 +0000

With the Steam Frame and Steam Machine launching with SteamOS Linux this year, we're going to again see a nice boost for Flatpaks and desktop Linux overall.

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Linaro reveal they're collaborating with Valve for the Steam Frame

Liam Dawe — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:14:50 +0000

Here's a small bit of news but an interesting one for the upcoming Steam Frame from Valve, as Linaro recently revealed they're supporting Valve with it.

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Open source XR runtime Monado 25.1.0 released with expanded hardware support

Liam Dawe — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:13:57 +0000

Monado is an impressive open source XR runtime that aims to support a whole lot of hardware, with a focus on great Linux support and version 25.1.0 is out now.

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SteamVR 2.14 brings fixes for a Linux memory leak, a Steam Link freeze for AMD GPUs and more

Liam Dawe — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:34:29 +0000

The latest stable release of SteamVR is out now! SteamVR 2.14 is a maintenance release focused on fixing up bugs and nuisance issues.

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Hot on the heels of the Steam Frame announcement, SteamVR Beta 2.14.1 brings more fixes

Liam Dawe — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:23:48 +0000

Valve only just released the latest stable SteamVR update in version 2.13, but SteamVR 2.14.1 Beta is now here as well with more tweaks and fixes.

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Ready for the Steam Frame, Khronos Group announced a new OpenXR "Best Practices Validation Layer"

Liam Dawe — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:48:37 +0000

The Khronos Group, the stewards of various open protocols like OpenGL, Vulkan, OpenXR and more just revealed a new tool for XR (VR / AR) developers.

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SteamVR 2.13 brings a whole lot of bug fixes

Liam Dawe — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:51:21 +0000

While many of us are no doubt waiting on whatever the Steam Frame turns out to be, Valve have released the latest stable SteamVR release with lots of bug fixes.

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The open source FOSDEM event for 2026 will have a Gaming and VR devroom

Liam Dawe — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 11:51:27 +0000

FOSDEM is an important event for the open source community, and it seems like FOSDEM 2026 is going to be interesting for Linux gaming fans too.

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Steam Link VR now available for PICO and HTC headsets, plus Valve confirm experimental Linux support

Liam Dawe — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:06:26 +0000

Valve have updated Steam Link VR to bring support for streaming games to PICO and HTC headsets, plus new info on the experimental Linux support.

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Steam Link VR for Meta Quest on Linux now appears to work in the latest updates

Liam Dawe — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:03:53 +0000

If you have a wireless VR headset and a Linux system, you might be excited to know that Valve's Steam Link VR now appears to actually work.

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Bridge Constructor Studio announce for a PC release sometime this Summer

Liam Dawe — Fri, 09 May 2025 12:43:43 +0000

Bridge Constructor Studio is the latest in the popular series of physics building puzzlers from developer ClockStone. Originally launched for Meta Quest, they recently revealed a proper PC release is coming.

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Valve rolls out SteamVR 2.10 with quick recenter, reduced controller and physics jitter and Linux fixes

Liam Dawe — Tue, 06 May 2025 16:33:27 +0000

Valve have released the latest stable version of SteamVR with 2.10 bringing a few fixes and a couple of new features to improve the experience.

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SteamVR Beta 2.10.2 released with a Linux VR fix and a controller and physics improvement

Liam Dawe — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:09:05 +0000

Valve released SteamVR Beta 2.10.2 on April 2nd, and thankfully it includes a couple of fixes for Linux VR players.

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Get ready for some chaos as POSTAL 2: VR has been announced

Liam Dawe — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 11:22:35 +0000

Running With Scissors along with Flat2VR Studios and Team Beef have announced the chaotic action game Postal 2 is coming to VR with a completely overhauled experienced. POSTAL 2: VR sounds like a lot of fun.

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Collabora take over libsurvive development an open source VR lighthouse tracking system

Liam Dawe — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 09:50:05 +0000

Collabora have announced they've taken over development of libsurvive, an open source lighthouse tracking system for VR.

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Metro Awakening (VR) releases November 7

Liam Dawe — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:46:29 +0000

Vertigo Games are releasing the VR game Metro Awakening on November 7, so it may be time to dust off your VR kit for this one.

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The NoVR mod for Half-Life: Alyx has a big Summer 2024 update out now

Liam Dawe — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 13:18:32 +0000

With the rumours swirling around a new Half-Life game coming, this is an excellent time to play the updated NoVR mod for Half-Life: Alyx if you don't own a VR kit. And there's a big Summer 2024 update out now.

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Alien: Rogue Incursion (VR) looks like it will turn me into a nervous wreck

Liam Dawe — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 13:48:02 +0000

I'm looking forward to playing through another proper single-player VR game, and it looks like Alien: Rogue Incursion may be my next big one.

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VR game streaming tool ALVR adds PipeWire support on Linux

Liam Dawe — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 10:29:05 +0000

While the Linux support of ALVR is still quite rough due to various issues with SteamVR, ALVR is a very promising way to stream VR games to your headset via Wi-Fi and a new release is out now with v20.9.1.

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DRM lease protocol support finally merged for GNOME Wayland - great for VR fans

Liam Dawe — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:16:06 +0000

VR fans rejoice! The GNOME project has finally pulled in DRM lease protocol support today, something required for getting VR under GNOME on Wayland working well.

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ElectricMaple joins WiVRn and ALVR in giving options to stream VR to a headset

Liam Dawe — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 17:35:33 +0000

Helping you cut down on all those wires, and potentially making way for cheaper low-end VR headsets for streaming, ElectricMaple was announced by Collabora and PlutoVR joining the likes of WiVRn and ALVR.

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SteamVR 2.6 released with experimental improvements to async on Linux

Liam Dawe — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:36:17 +0000

Valve released the latest update to SteamVR bringing with it a good few fixes, although most of it is for Steam Link. This follows on from a few recent Beta releases.

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SteamVR for Linux gets "experimental improvements to async support"

Liam Dawe — Wed, 29 May 2024 19:34:39 +0000

Exciting, even more improvements to SteamVR support are coming with the latest Beta release fixing up more issues.

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SteamVR 2.5 released with multiple Linux fixes

Liam Dawe — Wed, 08 May 2024 09:11:30 +0000

After a couple of Beta releases, Valve has now launched the latest stable release of SteamVR which brings in the recent Linux improvements.

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SteamVR Beta gets an SDL fix for Fedora Linux fans

Liam Dawe — Tue, 07 May 2024 10:16:05 +0000

Valve seem to be actually cleaning up SteamVR on Linux a bit more recently, which is kind of exciting when it's been left rough for so long.

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VR game Alien: Rogue Incursion releases late 2024

Liam Dawe — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 09:13:07 +0000

Oh damn, this is quite exciting as an Alien fan and might be a reason to pop my VR headset back on again. Alien: Rogue Incursion is coming sometime in late 2024.

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Escape Simulator adds VR support in the latest free update

Liam Dawe — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 12:22:48 +0000

Escape Simulator from Pine Studio has proven to be popular, so much in fact that they hit 1 million sales in less than a year and multiple expansions later there's another big free upgrade.

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Time to blow the dust off your VR headset - Metro Awakening is coming

Liam Dawe — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 11:25:27 +0000

Metro Awakening has been announced from Vertigo Games, and will be the first full VR entry into Metro. So clearly it's time to blow the dust off your VR headset and clean away the spider webs.

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Steam Deck, Steam Big Picture and SteamVR get lots of visual tweaks in new Beta

Liam Dawe — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 10:15:35 +0000

Valve released a fresh Beta update across Steam Deck, Steam Big Picture and SteamVR that includes lots of subtle visual tweaks to the UI to make it look a bit fancier.

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GE-Proton 8-23 fixes VRChat and reworks GStreamer plugin

Liam Dawe — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 12:58:25 +0000

The community-maintained GE-Proton compatibility layer has another small release out for Linux desktop / Steam Deck with GE-Proton 8-23 being released November 8th.

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SteamVR 2.0 Beta continues improving on Linux

Liam Dawe — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 12:59:31 +0000

Now that SteamVR 2.0 is officially out, Valve has continued to push out Beta releases with other improvements and the Linux situation with SteamVR seems better now too.

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Valve released big new Steam desktop, Steam Deck and SteamVR 2.0 updates

Liam Dawe — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 08:41:16 +0000

We have a triple update from Valve with SteamVR 2.0 now out of Beta, along with Steam Deck and Steam desktop upgrades so here's all the news.

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Valve fixes up more SteamVR 2.0 Beta issues on Linux

Liam Dawe — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 11:34:58 +0000

Another Beta update has landed for SteamVR 2.0, and this time it seems at least the initial startup issues may now be solved for most VR gamers on Linux.

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Steam Deck gets a 'Laser Pointer' Gyro mode, plus more desktop and SteamVR work

Liam Dawe — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 12:55:16 +0000

Valve released some more Steam Deck Beta Client updates recently, one of them including an interesting new Gyro mode so here's all the details on what's new.

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Valve fix up more SteamVR 2.0 Beta issues

Liam Dawe — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 11:21:20 +0000

After once again making it safe to take off your headset, Valve put up another SteamVR 2.0 Beta update focused on fixing up more problems and hopefully making it work better.

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Steam Beta and VR updated, 'it's now safe to take off your headset' - Valve

Liam Dawe — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 12:12:24 +0000

Valve has pushed out more Steam Client Beta and SteamVR updates, along with a funny note about the SteamVR update for a bit of a woops in the UI.

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SteamVR 2.0 Beta released with a big UI overhaul

Liam Dawe — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 10:13:40 +0000

Valve have now released a Beta for SteamVR 2.0, which brings with it a much needed overhaul to the interface along with lots of new features.

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Portal 2 VR mod gets an early release

Liam Dawe — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 20:29:10 +0000

Still one of the best puzzle games ever made, Valve's Portal 2 now has a community-made VR mod available in the early stages that's already quite impressive.

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Linux updates tease Valve 'Galileo' and 'Sephiroth' - Steam Deck refresh? Or new VR?

Liam Dawe — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 13:00:58 +0000

Here's something that could be exciting but also could be a whole lot of nothing. So keep expectations firmly in check, but work submitted for Linux kernel 6.6 show something interesting from Valve. Potentially a Steam Deck refresh or their new VR headset perhaps?

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SteamVR Beta gets some improvements for Linux

Liam Dawe — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 13:06:08 +0000

Valve has pushed out a fresh SteamVR Beta, and it seems they've begun cleaning up the Linux side of it that's had some issues plaguing it recently.

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The Khronos Group seeking paid devs to work on OpenXR runtime Monado

Liam Dawe — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 11:57:34 +0000

The Khronos Group who oversee various standards like OpenGL, Vulkan and OpenXR announced recently they've put up a "Request for Proposals" to fund work on Monado.

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SteamVR improves controller support in v1.26

Liam Dawe — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 11:10:54 +0000

SteamVR will now play better with various types of controllers, thanks to the release of SteamVR version 1.26 bringing with it automatic controller rebinding.

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Half-Life Alyx NoVR continues to impress and evolve

Liam Dawe — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 11:32:33 +0000

Half-Life Alyx NoVR is really coming together and a fresh update is out now to make the experience even better for those without a VR kit.

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Upload VR Showcase bundle has some good picks for VR fans

Liam Dawe — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 12:03:10 +0000

Have a fancy VR headset and fancy picking up some new games? The Humble Upload VR Showcase Bundle has some interesting titles worth a look.

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Immersion Corporation sues Valve over Steam Deck and Valve Index haptics tech

Liam Dawe — Wed, 17 May 2023 11:30:05 +0000

Immersion Corporation have a history of taking on companies and winning, with Valve being the latest in the firing line over Immersion's patents.

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Half-Life: Alyx fully playable without VR even on Steam Deck thanks to a mod

Liam Dawe — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 19:57:10 +0000

There's been a few efforts to get Half-Life: Alyx playable without VR and the latest is HLA-NoVR, out now and it's now possible to play it through, even on Steam Deck too.

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Collabora announce 'Mercury' hand-tracking for open source XR runtime Monado

Liam Dawe — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 15:29:35 +0000

After working on it for a while, Collabora developer Moses Turner has announced that their "Mercury" hand-tracking for Monado, their open source XR runtime, is now ready for use.

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Gamescope (used on Steam Deck) adds in some VR support

Liam Dawe — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 12:42:58 +0000

What are you up to Valve? Gamescope, software used on the Steam Deck for Gaming Mode that handles displaying everything recently had some VR work pulled in. Perhaps for the upcoming Deckard VR HMD?

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