Valve eliminated the VR Support sidebar part on Steam retailer pages, and a few builders aren’t completely satisfied.
The sidebar allowed builders to prominently show the suitable headsets, enter gadgets, and play space sizes for his or her video games, and customers may filter the shop by clicking on these tags. For instance, a HP Reverb G2 proprietor may seek for seated VR video games supporting Windows MR headsets.
But that sidebar has now been eliminated, and the specifics of VR assist are actually buried within the System Requirements as a non-searchable textual content area. Strangely, the ‘Tracked Controller Supported’ tag was stored and moved to the listing of common options on every retailer web page. Games supporting particular headsets or play space sizes can not be looked for.
One limitation of the outdated sidebar is it solely may listing Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Windows MR. ‘Oculus Rift’ usually meant supporting Oculus (now Meta) headsets basically, however this might be complicated for brand new VR homeowners. But Valve may have added new tags or renamed current tabs, moderately than eradicating the part fully.
Steam has a particular ‘Steam Deck Compatibility’ sidebar part for retailer pages, which led some to suspect the same new part for VR was inbound. But a recent Valve Tweet suggests this isn’t coming, and as a substitute System Requirements is now the meant place for builders to element VR compatibility.