Valve is bringing official Steam Link assist to Meta’s VR headsets. Starting at the moment, Quest 2, Quest 3 and Quest Pro house owners will have the ability to use Steam Link to wirelessly play their VR video games on Steam by way of their headsets.
You might beforehand use Oculus Link to wirelessly join your Quest headset to your PC to play video games owned on the Oculus/Meta retailer for apps and video games. Now, you can do the identical for all of the video games in your Steam library, however you have to an honest residence community to get it operating nicely with out a direct wired connection.
There are some minimal necessities for utilizing Steam Link with a Quest headset. Valve says you will want a 5GHz wi-fi connection at minimal, in addition to Windows 10 and a GTX 970 or newer graphics card. Those are simply the minimal necessities although, Valve recommends WiFi 6 or WiFi 6E, 16GB of RAM and an RTX 2070 graphics card or newer for the perfect expertise.
To get all of it arrange you will want Steam and SteamVR put in and operating in your PC. Then you will want to attach your Quest headset to the identical community as your PC and obtain the free Steam Link app for it. After that, the app will stroll you thru the remainder of the steps.
KitGuru Says: Wireless VR has actually taken over at this stage, with even fanatics swiftly rising sick of dangling cables and mounting sensors. With Steam Link, it would now be extra accessible to entry your PC VR video games wirelessly with a headset just like the Quest 3. Hopefully within the not too distant future, Valve can have a wi-fi VR headset of its personal, one thing that the corporate has been rumoured to be engaged on in recent times.
