[STEAM][DECK]Introducing SteamVR 2.17

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General:

• More in-game Steam features are now accessible in VR, including viewing achievements, community guides, and notes.

• The Quick Access Menu (familiar to Steam Deck users) is now available on the VR Dashboard bar, integrating notifications, volume, brightness, and battery status.

• The VR Dashboard bar now exposes shortcuts to common tasks on hover, such as exiting and redocking.

• Added new slider in Quick Access to control environmental and camera brightness.

• Overlay apps can be quit directly within the dashboard.

• Improved orientation of overlays positioned above or below the player.

• Quick Access Menu shows batteries for additional VR devices.

• Refined appearance of grab handles (for moving / resizing frames)

• Grab handles (theater / dashboard / torn-off / keyboard) can be moved in depth using thumbstick

• Keep floating frames centered when resizing

• Updated Laser Mouse appearance

• Updated theater mode placement

• Recenter (long press system button) is cancellable (B button)

• Fixed cases of SteamVR dashboard bar disappearance

• Show user notification when headset framerate changes

• Move less frequently used window controls to “Additional Options” Menu, and added option to toggle curvature.

• Improve dashboard placement and motion behavior. New user preference tune laser pointer length (Advanced -> Dashboard -> Laser Pointer Length)

• Fix missing dashboard icons for non-Steam VR apps.

• Fix stale Per-App Video Settings when switching the dialog from one app to another, then back again.

• Environment dimming now handled in a unified manner. Users may tune environment brightness in both theater and non-theater modes under VR Settings.

• Fixed some rendering issues related to dashboard / overlay cursor visibility

• Room view now only pauses input to apps when intentionally enabled and set to a style other than "Translucent"

• Fix for ****** when taking screenshots.

• Fix bug with headset initialization on 3rd party headset when many body trackers are in use.

Steam Link (Streaming): 

• Improved VR streaming on slow connections

• Fix stutters when using Steam Link on NVIDIA cards.

• Fix an issue causing 1 frame to be dropped every few seconds.

• Fixed being unable to switch active laser pointer hand when using hand tracking

• Numerous stability improvements

• Adds initial support for USB streaming.  Note: Requires new Steam Client Beta.

• Fix loading spinner flickering when framerate in game is low.

• Fix case where wrong framerates could show in SteamVR Settings.

• Latency improvements.

• Fixed scene dimming when dashboard is up.

• Added support for Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (CAS) prior to encoding. Can be tweaked in SteamVR Settings -> Steam Link -> Sharpen image before encoding.

• Prevent several cases that would cause video corruption on NVIDIA cards when using Steam Link.

OpenXR:

• Fix XR_EXT_view_configurations_changed event returning width for both the recommended width and height.

• Fix XrEventDataUserPresenceChangedEXT's session parameter being unset when using XR_EXT_user_presence

• Improved integrations between HMDs with cameras and chaperone

• Added support for 32-bit OpenXR applications. Users will be prompted to set SteamVR as their default OpenXR runtime after installing this Beta, which will set up the 32-bit runtime alongside the 64-bit runtime.

Linux:

• Additional improvements to wired headset support on Linux (which previously required third-party add-on layers)

• Improvements to stability and logging of error states on Linux.

• Fix ****** using Steam Link on Linux when games submit invalid textures.

• Improve streaming recovery when using Steam Link on Linux.

• Improved support on vrgames that invert nearZ/farZ

Developers

• Added setting to disable vr streaming auto-connect on resume

• Added setting to disable chaperone bounds

• Fix for EVROverlayFlags.MinimalControlBar overlay handling

• Fix OpenXR bug with image submission for certain non-standard image sizes

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