Man, Steam’s mostly broken Wayland support is such a bummer, far and away my biggest disappointment with my Linux gaming PC. Really hoping they get it together for the Steam Machine, Wayland’s features would obviously be very useful for that experience, but I haven’t seen it on the beta yet…

Still planning to get a Steam Frame though, so your wisdom may be very much appreciated then. Thanks for pointing me to WayVR, it sounds like that may make a big difference!

This is native code, so you’d expect much better performance, but mostly this is just a really great foundation to build on.

Current features are thin, but you should expect a lot of improvements going forward, compare it to something like Ship of Harkinian (same team) for an idea of what might be to come. Features like high framerates and texture packs, built in randomizer and tracking support, modding support, a ton of features and tweaks for speedrunners, etc, and a metric ton of QoL features.