Valve this week launched the SteamVR 1.23 replace which brings with it a brand new set of bugs.
Useless bugs, that’s. The most recent replace to SteamVR features a curious addition… a brand new SteamVR Residence vacation spot that features CT scans of useless bugs “discovered mendacity on the bottom” exterior of Valve’s workplace.
The corporate explains:
A CT scan entails passing X-rays by way of a topic at totally different angles—captured information is then processed with a pc to generate a 3D voxel grid representing density at every level. These scans had been produced utilizing an industrial CT scanner able to extraordinarily excessive decision scans—gigabytes of voxel information being transformed into easier 3D fashions able to being rendered in real-time in your GPU.
When you’d prefer to see the useless bugs for your self, subscribe to Valve’s ‘CT Scans’ dwelling atmosphere right here.
The remainder of the SteamVR 1.23 replace has a handful of figurative bug fixes, enhancements to OpenXR, and a few small Quest 2 tweaks mentioned to “lowered controller place jitter,” and “enhance the Quest 2’s grip set off animation.”
Useless bugs are cool and all, but it surely actually doesn’t bolster confidence that Valve is taking VR very significantly in the meanwhile. Just like the final SteamVR replace again in Might, which added one other new SteamVR Residence atmosphere, the useless bug replace strikes us because the passion undertaking of a single Valve worker.
The corporate has been making sluggish enhancements to the SteamVR interface and continued to work on the platform’s OpenXR help; however in any other case it has been extraordinarily quiet about any future plans for VR video games, {hardware}, retailer enhancements, or native SteamVR variations of core Steam options like associates record, voice chats, a completely practical retailer and library, achievements, and extra.