Meta Quest, Steam Link, SteamVR, Bazzite: Did It Improve?
Ok this has been bugging me the last day and I wanted to run this by you guys.
My understanding was that SteamVR using Meta Quest and Steam Link app had issues and that it was best to use apps like WiVRn and ALVR. This seemed to be the overall consensus on YouTube and this subreddit and there haven’t really been many updates on this matter in the last year. I know it’s fairly easy to use the VR linking apps, but I chose to just wait for Steam Frame.
Then a few days ago, a YouTuber, Naysy, posted a new video showing her connecting her Meta Quest 3 to the Steam Machine and it seemed to connect pretty flawlessly. She did experience some crashes and performance issues once in game, but I didn’t think the Steam Link app would connect to Bazzite so easily.
Just wanting to try the experience out myself, I decided to connect my Meta Quest 2 to my Bazzite box. It has a Ryzen 7 9700X, a 9070 XT, and 32 GB of DDR5 RAM. I found to have the same initial connection success. I did run into a few bugs, but overall, the experience was surprisingly good! I tested Tetris Effect Connected and No Man’s Sky and both experiences were basically flawless when I was in-game. I was shocked, and I am wondering if the reason why I wasn’t having the performance issues Naysy was having was perhaps just my build was a bit more performant.
It seems like Valve was really working on VR functionality in Linux all this time and was just being real quiet about it. If you have a Meta Quest and just want to try Steam Link, give it a go and see if you like it now. Also, I’d love to get more insight from others more familiar about what I was experiencing here.
I still plan to get the Steam Frame though!