In a weblog put up, Steam revealed SteamVR 2.0 is accessible now for all customers. Based on the put up, the replace additionally permits Steam so as to add new options sooner or later on a quicker and extra frequent foundation. The discharge comes precisely one month after the beta for SteamVR 2.0 began.

New Options

Steam additionally revealed a few of the new options coming with SteamVR 2.0 together with the next:

• A lot of the present options of Steam and Steam Deck at the moment are a part of SteamVR
• Up to date keyboard with help for dual-cursor typing, new languages, emojis, and themes
• Integration of Steam Chat and Voice Chat
• Improved Retailer that places new and standard VR releases entrance and heart
• Quick access to Steam notifications

The most important function might be the brand new UI. I don’t have VR, however screenshots it positively seems to be cleaner than the unique. Preliminary feedback on the weblog put up nevertheless point out plenty of customers nonetheless really feel the desktop view wants some work.

With how nicely the Oculus Quest 3 seems to be, Steam must maintain their foot on the pedal with updates to deliver it in as much as par compared to the Oculus software program.

There was additionally a brand new replace launched for the Steam Consumer with some modifications primarily based round SteamVR 2.0.

Basic

• Take away warning messages that got here up while you began a 2D recreation when in VR.
• Repair crash in SteamVR when sure notifications have been despatched. This fixes the crash that might happen when taking screenshots from inside SteamVR.
• Repair notifications not displaying up when a recreation’s desktop window was centered.
• Dashboard Tabs at the moment are horizontally scrollable should you add a considerable amount of desktop home windows or dashboard overlays.
• Mounted again button sometimes taking you again twice.

Interface

• Added mouse- and touch-friendly type and filter buttons in library when in VR.
• Improved reliability of clicking on Dashboard and Steam UI components with the laser mouse.
• Tab bars now present clickable arrows as a substitute of L1/R1 bumper glyphs.
• Mounted the dashboard UI not working if Steam is in a Logged Out state (e.g. asking you to choose a person.)
• Cover the search bar from the header when Steam is in a Logged Out state.
• Some buy flows weren’t displaying up within the Dashboard when began from inside a recreation.
• UI takes up full width of the show in a number of circumstances the place it was being centered such because the Associates tab.
• Filter choices gained’t present Steam Deck compatibility filters when viewing from VR.

Linux

• Repair a difficulty that prevented SteamVR from beginning on Debian/Ubuntu techniques.