SteamVR Beta Updated - 2.16.1

If you encounter issues with this update, please post in the SteamVR Bug Report forum. If possible, please include a system report to aid in tracking down your issue. Replies to this post are not tracked for bug reporting purposes. Please use the forum linked above to report issues.

The Steam Link for Meta Quest FAQ page is available here.

Anyone can opt into the SteamVR Beta. Instructions are available here.

SteamVR:

• Fixed issue causing shimmering on the edges of the display on some headsets

• FixedDashboardResolved some memory leaks on AMD hardware
• AdjustedDashboardImproved compatibility on some older (legacy) AMD hardware

• Streaming: Advanced settings UX now respects global toggle

• Improved version compatibility handshake when streaming

• Fixed HTC Vive users not being able to activate the laser mouse by clicking the HMD button after the dashboard is visible.

• Numerous overall stability improvements

Linux:

• Fix a crash in SteamVR when a game crashes.

• Fixed texture leaks when mirror window was visible

• Improved robustness for VR streaming

• Improved interop with gamescope overlay forwarding

• The vrcompositor process is always a child of vrserver now (instead of whatever process first uses the compositor).

• Improved GPU synchronization implementation on Linux (now uses timeline semaphores)

• Stop invoking `pidof` internally.

OpenXR

• Added support for XR_EXT_interaction_profile_battery_state_display

• Fix OpenXR crash related to xrDestroyInstance

• Improved XrCompositionLayerProjection support (fixes distortion when scene projection and display projection differ)

Developer/Internal

• SteamVR won't kill UnrealEditor upon exiting VR

• Reduce the number of uninteresting vrevents, especially under VR streaming.

• Improved compositor initialization timing.

• Internal Improvements to Dashboard visibility model

• Internal Improvements to UX focus model

• Cleaner driver shutdown sequencing