Do you know you’ll be able to technically play SteamVR video games like Half-Life: Alyx (2020) on Imaginative and prescient Professional? Nicely, now you do, because the main app devoted to bringing SteamVR connectivity to a ton of standalone headsets is now accessible for Imaginative and prescient Professional on the App Retailer.
Beforehand supplied as an invite-only beta, ALVR is now free on the App Store, permitting Imaginative and prescient Professional customers to stream OpenVR video games out of your PC through Wi-Fi.
This contains assist for Imaginative and prescient Professional’s hand gestures, nevertheless greater than possible you’ll need some type of controller to actually make use of SteamVR content material. Developer Max Thomas mentions ALVR helps twin controllers such because the Nintendo Swap Pleasure-Con controllers, along with current Lighthouse base station setups for fans already within the SteamVR monitoring ecosystem.
To stand up and operating, you’ll after all want a VR-ready pc, both operating Home windows or Linux. Check here if your computer is capable of running VR games.
One other factor to test is that Imaginative and prescient Professional is on the identical native community as the pc, which for greatest efficiency must be 5GHz 802.11ac router with speeds larger than 300Mbps, positioned inside 20 toes (6 meters) out of your playspace. You will get away with much less, however you might expertise some fairly annoying stuttering.
Regardless of the case, community exercise from different units needs to be at a minimal to maintain bandwidth clear for PC-streaming, and the host pc needs to be linked on to the router through Ethernet. Lastly, make certain AirDrop and Handoff are disabled throughout gameplay to cut back stuttering.
The official launch of ALVR on Imaginative and prescient Professional follows early third-party makes an attempt to hack the software into working, which spurred indie developer Max Thomas (aka ‘Shiny Quagsire’) to begin experimenting with bringing the streaming device formally to visionOS.