Linux updates tease Valve 'Galileo' and 'Sephiroth' - Steam Deck refresh? Or new VR?
Linux updates tease Valve 'Galileo' and 'Sephiroth' - Steam Deck refresh? Or new VR?
Here's something that could be exciting but also could be a whole lot of nothing. So keep expectations firmly in check, but work submitted for Linux kernel 6.6 show something interesting from Valve. Potentially a Steam Deck refresh or their new VR headset perhaps?
Oh please be a stand-alone VR headset. I'm so sick of Meta's awful software!
I have modded Beat Saber and you'd think it would be easy to keep your maps/replays synchronized with your computer. Nope! It's a huge, manual pain in the ass.
If it was running SteamOS I could just create a cron job or systemd timer and have it auto-sync whenever I turned it on. It would be trivial!
Have you seen BeepSaber?
A basic implementation of the Beat Saber VR game mechanic in the Godot Game Engine for Oculus Quest (and other VR headsets) This game uses godot 3.2. The implementation supports to load and play maps from BeatSaver.
A little hokey but I bet it doesn’t break every other week when Meta updates it. Not sure on addons tho.
The last commit to beepsaver was over a year ago and there's no mechanism to submit scores to anything like BeatLeader (https://www.beatleader.xyz/u/76561198133136058)
I'm sure a better Beat Saber clone will come out some day but without a global leaderboard and support for replays it's unlikely to ever get much adoption (amongst the fanatics anyway, haha)
I know Valve said they weren't planning on a Steam Deck 2 for a few years. My bet would be VR
Someone in the comments of that article made a note about having a "Steam Brick" that would be a steam deck like console.
I've been investing a lot of time into ChimeraOS and Bazzite for universal Blue lately. I highly recommend building a small form factor PC in something like a fractal ridge with an old 5700XT (or the cheapest AMD RDNA GPU you can find really) and give it a go!
We can all steambox again if we just believe!
I already have a Steam Deck, but what excites me about the prospect of a new valve set-top console is a Steam Deck-like controller.
I'm definitely in the market for a new controller to use with my Steam Deck, as I almost always have it docked. But nothing seems like it has everything I want in a controller. I kinda just want a Steam Deck without the screen. I don't want to use Bluetooth because I get poor performance in my house, probably due to wireless interference, and because it won't wake the Steam Deck from sleep. I currently use an Xbox controller with the wireless receiver, but I hate needing to reinstall the drivers after every software update.
I want a new updated steam controller so bad, I loved the original even tho it's widely hated, if they just fixed the small issues it had that they already fixed with steam deck controlls, I would be so happy.
but what excites me about the prospect of a new valve set-top console is a Steam Deck-like controller.
I want a Steam Controller 2 so bad! DO IT VALVE
Quick preface, this isn’t meant to be disrespectful or confrontational, I’m genuinely curious, but what are you playing while docked? I bought the dock and have only a tiny bit of buyer’s remorse because I feel like anything put up on the big screen is so low quality that it’s not even worth it and just either stream it from my PC to Deck or play on the PC directly. I admit I may be doing something wrong, I don’t have the time to fiddle with it to optimize.
I tried installing Bazzite on a couple different computers. It just didn’t work. The Bazzite Portal, which is supposed to come up in first boot, never did. I must have installed it 5 or 6 times.
Clicking on it in the menu did nothing. Running from the CLI makes it come up but one time it just hung on the second or third step with no option to recover (and then wouldn’t run again), and another time it ran through but failed to produce a usable system in any way (again, with no option to recover).
I like the idea but I don’t have infinite time to fiddle with it so now I’m running Ubuntu with auto-login to the gaming user account which starts Steam Big Picture automatically.
It’s as close to a console experience as I can get.
Been running ChimeraOS - though it was GamerOS when I installed it - on an Atari VCS for a while now, it does great as a low-powered couch gaming box.