Valve Launches Official Steam Link PC VR Streaming App on Quest

So Meta is basically selling these headsets at the loss or near loss, IIUC, hoping to make it up on building network effect, tech and the store fees, as usually these sorts of hardware platforms do, and then Valve comes in and effectively hijacks the platform turning it into an accessory for the SteamDeck.<p>As someone that happens to own both (I love the SteamDeck, think as a VR a gimmick) I need to try it out soon.

Not working from Linux hosts, unfortunately. After the news, I pulled my Quest 2 out for the first time this year, spent an hour getting it to update which required being re-paired to my Oculus dev account via a smartphone app (why?), and was unable to link the app on the headset by pin the way Steam Link works everywhere else.<p>ALVR and Virtual Desktop both worked for me on Linux previously, but they weren&#x27;t the greatest experience. I was really hoping this would finally bridge the divide in experience.

This is good news, currently both Steam VR and Meta&#x27;s Link stuff runs in parallel both with their own pop-up UI and settings. Just using Steam simplifies things a lot.

This isn&#x27;t exactly new. You could already play steam games over airlink. Including steamvr.<p>Having a dedicated app doesn&#x27;t really add much imo. But I&#x27;ll try it.

Cool. So now we have 4 ways to do this:<p>* Link&#x2F;AirLink * Virtual Desktop * ALVR * Steam Link<p>It’s kind of nice that it integrates with Steam, but it also can’t play your Oculus PCVR games (unlike the other 3 solutions)

How is it possible to have low enough latency over WiFi to avoid motion sickness?