![]() ![]() To be precise, we will see it once the migration happens and if there is community noise to the direction of “it is hard/tricky/inconvenient to use SteamVR from the new UI” and if Facebook says something to it that will be in something like “it is not us but Steam makes it hard to support SteamVR and we are doing our best”, that’s when we know they are playing the trick of “not enough users to support feature”. This is one of the oldest tricks in the book and we will probably soon see if they are using it. Kind of same that they did with Rift, they made the Rift S so, it was better than Quest but not really competing with anything new and kind of stupid buy over Quest and probably in the meeting where they decided to leave the Rift S as the last Rift someone used the argument: “There isn’t enough sales to justify continuing developing the Rift line-up”. Pretty much this plus making the experience worse to lower the numbers until they can say “only a fraction of minority uses this feature, so we decided to remove it as it gives us headaches and not many use it”. From there they could launch into the SteamVR environment as they do now.Īs of now Oculus hasn’t said when the Oculus Link updates will hit, but the native interface integration is likely to come sometime after the performance improvements aimed at Quest 2. The company didn’t elaborate on exactly how users could continue to use SteamVR via Oculus Link, but one likely outcome is that-in addition to seeing a list of available PC apps in their Quest interface-Oculus Link users would also see an ‘Oculus Dash’ app which would allow them to continue to access Dash if desired. You Can Get a 26 Foot Oculus Link Cable for $34 With an Active Extenderīut that raises questions about whether or not Quest and Quest 2 would continue to be compatible with SteamVR via Oculus Link. As it stands today, Quest and Quest 2 users see Oculus Dash when using Oculus Link, and from there they can launch into the SteamVR environment to browse games and content.įortunately, Oculus tells Road to VR that the interface changes to Oculus Link won’t impact SteamVR compatibility.
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