SteamVR wurde in der Version 2.16 veröffentlicht und bringt eine Reihe von Bugfixes sowie Verbesserungen für Linux-Nutzer.

Besonders für Linux interessant: ein Absturz beim Beenden eines Spiels wurde behoben, Textur-Leaks beim Mirror-Fenster sind Geschichte, und die GPU-Synchronisation wurde auf Timeline Semaphores umgestellt. Zudem wird nun beim Streaming automatisch die beste GPU gewählt - was vor allem Nutzer der NVIDIA Open-Source-Treiber freuen dürfte.

SteamVR:

• Fixed issue causing shimmering on the edges of the display on some headsets.
• Dashboard: Resolved some memory leaks on AMD hardware.
• Dashboard: Improved compatibility on some older (legacy) AMD hardware.
• Fixed an issue with older AMD cards or drivers that caused a memory leak.
• Streaming: Advanced settings UX now respects global toggle.
• Improved version compatibility handshake when streaming.
• Fixed HTC Vive users not being able to activate the laser mouse by clicking the HMD button after the dashboard is visible.
• Add protection from hangs in vrserver on exit.
• Speculative fix for Varjo headsets not having a display.
• Fix regression in Chaperone behavior that was impacting some 3rd party OpenVR plugins.
• Fixed an issue where SteamVR Home would drop frames on some systems.
• Fix a bug where the SteamVR dashboard would not start, particularly when using hardware that creates many devices at startup.

Linux:

• Fix a crash in SteamVR when a game crashes.
• Fixed texture leaks when mirror window was visible.
• Improved interop with gamescope overlay forwarding.
• The vrcompositor process is always a child of vrserver now (instead of whatever process first uses the compositor).
• Improved GPU synchronization implementation on Linux (now uses timeline semaphores).
• Stop invoking pidof internally.

VRLink:

• On Linux, pick the best GPU for VR and streaming rather than using first enumerated device. In particular, the NVIDIA open drivers enumerate in a different order and would not get selected before this change.
• On Linux, work-around to enable 240 MBit/s streaming on NVIDIA cards.
• Reduce performance overhead of Timing Debug Window.
• Adjust packet timings to reduce latency spikes.
• Fixed streaming certain OpenXR games on Quest (including Pavlov and Into The Radius 2)

OpenXR:

• Added support for XR_EXT_interaction_profile_battery_state_display.
• Fix OpenXR crash related to xrDestroyInstance.
• Improved XrCompositionLayerProjection support (fixes distortion when scene projection and display projection differ).