SteamVR Release Notes and Known Issues

This is a development release. It is intended to allow developers to start creating SteamVR content for Linux platforms. Limited hardware support is provided.

SteamVR and VR apps require a modern linux distribution with up to date graphics drivers. Ubuntu >= 20 or Arch for instance.

For discussions and questions, please use the SteamVR for Linux forum at http://steamcommunity.com/app/250820/discussions/5/.

For bugs, please file an issue on this github issue tracker. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamVR-for-Linux/issues

GRAPHICS DRIVER REQUIREMENTS

SteamVR is built on top of the Vulkan API and requires the latest Vulkan drivers.

NVIDIA on Ubuntu

We recommend using the latest NVIDIA drivers from the "Graphics Drivers" PPA at https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

AMD on Ubuntu

We recommend using the latest mesa drivers from the PPA at https://launchpad.net/~kisak/+archive/ubuntu/kisak-mesa

NATIVE DEVELOPMENT

Version 1.0.7 of the OpenVR SDK has full support for Linux platforms: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr