XR glasses on Linux / Steam Deck get vastly better with the XR Gaming Plugin

Developer Wayne Heaney has been working to make XR glasses on Linux / Steam Deck a much better experience, and their latest release of the XR Gaming Plugin sounds awesome.

Heaney has been working on the XR Linux Driver for Linux devices (including the Steam Deck) to automatically recognize supported XR glasses, Breezy Desktop a collection of tools to enable virtual desktop environments for gaming and productivity (desktop Linux) and the Decky Loader XR Gaming Plugin to bring easy controls directly in Steam Deck's Gaming Mode.

This includes support for popular XR glasses from VITURE, TCL/RayNeo, Rokid and XREAL.

As they said on Reddit the new 1.0 XR Gaming Plugin brings:

• Virtual Display mode - "pin" your game so it doesn't follow your head movements. Enable Side-by-side so the display can be pulled in closer (like a real monitor) or moved further away to reduce eye strain or play games that support 3D side-by-side.

• VR-Lite mode - head tracking in first and third-person games creates a VR-like experience for non-VR games (doesn't require SteamVR, etc...).

• Follow mode - Resize and reposition the display, put it in the corner of your display or just make it smaller so it's easier to see the edges. Enable Smooth follow so the screen glides to follow you and smoothes out bumps and jerks.

• Virtual display and smooth follow modes give you the ability to zoom-in for a more IMAX-like experience (this crops the display, but you can use head movements to look to the edges) or enable a curved display that wraps around you for easier viewing.

• If you've used the plugin before, the biggest improvement is that the Virtual Display and Follow effects apply across everything in Game Mode: Steam OS views like Home and Library, all games, streaming apps like Chiaki and Moonlight, even apps like Firefox

Currently it requires the latest SteamOS 3.6 Beta.

See their video talking about the update below:

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Some of their future plans include native KDE support for Breezy Desktop, Multi-monitor support for Breezy Desktop for productivity on GNOME, Monado integration and more.