Valve Releases SteamVR For Linux (gamingonlinux.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Thursday February 23, 2017 @10:30AM from the more-the-merrier dept.

New submitter JustNiz quotes a report from GamingOnLinux: Valve has launched SteamVR for Linux officially in beta form and they are keen to stress that this is a development release. You will need to run the latest Steam Beta Client for it to work at all, so be sure to opt-in if you want to play around with it. VR on Linux will exclusively use Vulkan, so it's going to be a pretty good push for Vulkan if VR becomes more popular. Those who are interested can head over to GitHub for more information.

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Re:Talk about a subset of a subset by Anonymous Coward · 2017-02-23 11:48 · Score: 3, Insightful

It's actually a smart idea. If VR takes off this time around then they are getting it on Linux at square one, where there is much more even footing against Windows since Windows also doesn't have much in the way of VR. This could be the "killer app" that eventually popularises Linux.