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Half-Life: Alyx now available on Linux with Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, May 15, 2020

Just like Valve said to us they would do so, Half-Life: Alyx is now available on Linux using the Vulkan graphics API.

xrdesktop continues expanding the Linux desktop into Virtual Reality with work sponsored by Valve

By Liam Dawe, May 8, 2020

Today the hackers over at Collabora announced the release of xrdesktop 0.14, a Valve Software sponsored effort to bring Linux desktops into the VR world.

Valve drops support for SteamVR on macOS to focus on Linux & Windows

By Liam Dawe, May 1, 2020

Today Valve made quite a big announcement about the future of VR, including an entire platform being dropped.

Open-source OpenXR runtime for Linux 'Monado' gets an improved compositor - runs Blender VR

By Liam Dawe, Apr 30, 2020

Those crazy-smart folks over at Collabora have continued hacking away on Monado, a fully open source OpenXR (VR / AR standard) runtime for Linux. Now it's progressed quite far and it can run Blender VR.

It appears that Valve are preparing Half-Life: Alyx for Linux

By Liam Dawe, Apr 24, 2020

Half-Life: Alyx, Valve's return to the Half-Life franchise in VR-only form released for Windows last month and it appears they're now preparing a Linux version.

New SteamVR Beta has some essential Half-Life: Alyx fixes for Linux

By Liam Dawe, Mar 25, 2020

While Half-Life: Alyx isn't on Linux (yet—it's coming), Valve are still trying to get it working as good as possible with Steam Play Proton and a new update for SteamVR is up.

Half-Life: Alyx arrives today (Linux should come later) and CS:GO gets Alyx cosmetics

By Liam Dawe, Mar 23, 2020

As Half-Life: Alyx arrives today, just a reminder that it should hopefully be coming to Linux in a post-release update. On top of that, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive got some fancy cosmetics for it.

Half-Life: Alyx support for Linux aiming to arrive with Vulkan support post-release

By Liam Dawe, Mar 18, 2020

Today, Valve replied to our message asking about the situation with Half-Life: Alyx and Linux support and we got our answer.

Valve reveals SteamVR 1.10 with a brand new Dashboard

By Liam Dawe, Feb 28, 2020

Valve continue rapidly iterating on SteamVR, as they attempt to push the limits of what VR can do both on the hardware and software side with SteamVR 1.10 out now.

Unity deprecating built-in XR (VR/AR etc) support for a new plugin system - Valve doing their own for SteamVR

By Liam Dawe, Jan 28, 2020

While the state of Virtual/Mixed/Augmented Reality (XR) is constantly in flux and improving all the time, Unity have announced with Unity 2019.3 that their built-in XR support is being deprecated.

Mike Shapiro drops a cryptic message from G-Man for the upcoming Half-Life: Alyx

By Liam Dawe, Jan 2, 2020

Half-Life: Alyx is set to release in March this year, and while we don't yet know what exactly is happening with Linux support it's still an exciting time.

SteamVR 1.9 is out, Linux VR users may want to opt into a Beta

By Liam Dawe, Dec 18, 2019

Valve just recently put out the latest big new build of their SteamVR platform, with something to be aware of if you're on Linux.

Valve are making the Index VR kit available in more countries

By Liam Dawe, Nov 22, 2019

If Valve want the new Half-Life: Alyx to be a success, they need to push VR into every possible country they can and they're working a bit more towards that.

Set between Half-Life and Half-Life 2, Valve have now properly announced Half-Life: Alyx (updated)

By Liam Dawe, Nov 21, 2019

Half-Life: Alyx, the first Half-Life title in far too long has now been officially revealed with the Steam store page for it now available and you can also pre-purchase.

Valve has now confirmed Half-Life: Alyx, their new VR flagship title

By Liam Dawe, Nov 18, 2019

Valve have now officially confirmed that Half-Life is back with their flagship VR title named Half-Life: Alyx.

Another big SteamVR update is out now, with plenty of Linux fixes for VR enthusiasts

By Liam Dawe, Nov 6, 2019

SteamVR 1.8 is now out of Beta and with it, comes plenty of updates to the whole system with some big audio changes and some good sounding Linux fixes.

Valve have released a big new 1.7 version of SteamVR

By Liam Dawe, Sep 11, 2019

Bringing together a ton of updates from all the recent Beta releases, a big new release of SteamVR is out for everyone further refining the VR experience overall.

Collabora detail more work going into Monado, their open source OpenXR runtime

By Liam Dawe, Aug 5, 2019

With the 1.0 release of the OpenXR 1.0 specification, Collabora have begun to detail more work going on with Monado their open source OpenXR runtime for Linux.

Another SteamVR release is up, further improving the VR experience on Linux

By Liam Dawe, Aug 5, 2019

Valve continue to move at a rapid pace to improve SteamVR across all platforms, especially with the Valve Index being so new there's plenty of teething issues to address.