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The Apple Vision Pro is taking another step toward becoming the killer VR gaming device we all know it could be. Valve recently announced that it is adding Steam Link, an app for Vision Pro that will let users wirelessly stream Steam games from their PC or Mac to their headsets. Steam Link will allow streaming up to 4k and includes a panoramic mode with an adjustable screen curve.
There’s a huge caveat though: Steam Link will not stream VR games, so you won’t be playing Half-Life: Alyx or any other Steam-based VR or AR games on your Vision Pro. At least for now.
How to install Steam Link on your Apple Vision Pro
Steam Link for iOS is currently in Beta, with no word yet on when the full version will be released, but getting into the Beta is painless:
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Go to the App Store on your Vision Pro and Install TestFlight.
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Make sure you have a game controller paired to your Vision Pro and your wifi is fairly fast.
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In your Apple Vision Pro, click on this link.
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You’ll be guided through the rest of the set-up process.
The state of gaming on the Apple Vision Pro
At launch, the Apple Vision Pro had few choices for gamers, but that’s been steadily changing over the last month or so. First Apple announced support for NVIDIA CloudXR, and now Steam, giving users two legitimate ways to game on the Vision Pro, but the Holy Grail of gaming, native PC VR games like Skyrim VR and Boneworks, remain out of reach unless you use a hacker-y workaround.
What do you think so far?
While there has been no announcement from Apple, enabling low latency tools like Cloud XR and opening Steam to Vision Pro may be leading to the next logical step: supporting OpenVR and/or SteamVR. The Vision Pro’s M5 chip certainly has the power to handle the frame-rates of AAA VR games, and Apple Pro users, I’m sure, would at least like the option of playing top-tier games on their face computers.
