Valve’s Steam Hyperlink app is seemingly coming to Pico and HTC Vive standalone headsets, datamining suggests.
References to ByteDance’s Pico headsets within the Steam Hyperlink app had been first noticed by VR fanatic Luna, who found again in November that the app already runs on Pico headsets if sideloaded, with “some minor quirks”. Each Quest and Pico are Android-based methods that assist OpenXR, which the Steam Hyperlink app makes use of.
What’s attention-grabbing is that Steam Hyperlink on the Meta retailer does even have PICO’s headsets listed within the config file alongside the Meta lineup (Hollywood, Seacliff, Eureka). The PICO 4 controller profile is there too.
I ponder if we’ll see it on the PICO retailer in some unspecified time in the future? 🤔 https://t.co/SUlYer56rZ pic.twitter.com/MARDYh4YPM
— Luna (@Lunayian) November 19, 2024
Then, in January, VR fanatic Brad Lynch’s Discord datamining group found Pico 4 and Pico 4 Extremely controller icons in SteamVR, one other step within the technique of supporting the headsets.
Tonight’s SteamVR Beta replace added icons for the entire Pico 4/4U controllers in preparation for its official Steam Hyperlink assist pic.twitter.com/oQTdX7T3i3
— SadlyItsDadley (@SadlyItsBradley) January 8, 2025
Now, Lynch’s workforce has found references to HTC’s Vive Focus 3 and Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient standalone headsets, suggesting Valve plans to make the Steam Hyperlink VR app accessible for all broadly accessible Android-based standalone VR headsets.
After all, it is also potential that Valve simply desires to make the app work nicely when sideloaded. However it will make way more sense for the corporate to deliver the app to Pico and HTC’s app shops, because it did with Meta’s in late 2023.
Valve is now engaged on bringing Steam Hyperlink to HTC’s Vive Focus 3/Imaginative and prescient, in addition to Bytedance’s Pico HMDs
ALSO extra references to the “SteamVR Hyperlink Dongle” {hardware} system appeared
Valve is making it to ease the method of instantly connecting your headset to your PC wirelessly pic.twitter.com/nkeC59MN14
— SadlyItsDadley (@SadlyItsBradley) March 12, 2025
The invention comes as Lynch’s workforce additionally discovered references to a “SteamVR Hyperlink Dongle” system, which may enhance the reliability of wi-fi PC VR in comparison with utilizing your current residence Wi-Fi community.
Lynch suggests Valve may embrace the SteamVR Hyperlink Dongle within the field of Deckard, the corporate’s upcoming headset now rumored to be launching this 12 months, and this appears extremely probably. However I believe it may assist Quest, Pico, and HTC headsets too, bettering the expertise of utilizing SteamVR wirelessly regardless of which standalone VR headset you personal.
Valve Working On “SteamVR Hyperlink Dongle” For Dependable Wi-fi PC VR
Valve is engaged on a “SteamVR Hyperlink Dongle”, datamining reveals, and it may enhance the reliability of reasonably priced wi-fi PC VR.
