If you prefer SteamVR’s platform however, keep these enabled. If you want to only use SteamVR for content and not its platform features, you can disable them in the SteamVR settings. You have an Oculus Home and a SteamVR Home, and you have the Oculus Dash and SteamVR Dashboard. While using your Rift S on SteamVR, you may notice that you’re simultaneously using two platforms. To do this, open the SteamVR settings and click on the Audio tab. Instead, you need to set it to switch the Windows audio device to your Rift S when SteamVR is launched, then back to your normal speakers or headphones when it is closed. Oculus API games, with a few exceptions, will automatically output their audio to your Rift S, even when a different audio device is selected in the Windows taskbar. This process usually works well, but sometimes can be buggy and can lower performance.Ī Steam store page won’t tell you whether a game supports your headset natively or through SteamVR, so if you want to know you’ll need to look on the game’s forum or ask around to be sure. Instead, SteamVR acts as an Oculus app in itself, so when using the Rift it translates the developer’s SteamVR API calls to Oculus API calls. Not all VR games on the Steam store use SteamVR- some use the Oculus API only, and some support either Oculus API mode or SteamVR mode- letting you choose which to run. SteamVR itself is installed via Steam, and most SteamVR apps/games are sold on Steam.īoth are created by the company Valve. SteamVR is software that lets developers create PC VR apps, and users (like you) with any PC VR headset play them. Steam is a popular digital store and launcher for PC games (both VR and non-VR). You can use SteamVR to play many PC VR games not sold on the Oculus Store.
STEAM VR FULL
Last week, Valve’s SteamVR platform added full support for the Oculus Rift S.
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