Valve Releases SteamOS 0.5.8 Beta, Adds Room View to PC Streaming
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Updated · GamingOnLinux · Nov 7
Valve Releases SteamOS 0.5.8 Beta, Adds Room View to PC Streaming
3 articles · Updated · GamingOnLinux · Nov 7
Summary
SteamOS 0.5.8 Beta and SteamVR 2.19.2 Beta rolled out with fixes for Steam Link overlay regressions, streaming-resolution crashes and visual artifacts introduced around SteamVR 2.19.1.
PC streaming now supports Room View, letting users keep remote desktop or game theater visible during camera passthrough; OpenXR mixed-reality games such as X-Plane 12 can also blend VR content with passthrough.
Steam Frame also restores encoding resolution down to 512, improves resilience to brief network interruptions, and fixes a battery-tab bug that showed the right controller twice with some third-party drivers including PSVR2.
Broader platform fixes cover Linux launch issues, eye-tracking self-calibration, low-end gamma inconsistencies on some headsets, and a Chrome v157 permission problem that had blocked WebXR.