Where things stand
On November 6, Valve released the SteamOS 0.5.8 beta, which introduces Room View and OpenXR mixed reality blending for Steam Frame. Earlier in November, the open-source FX Steam Launcher project began allowing Apple Silicon Macs to run the ARM64 version of SteamOS via a virtual machine to play Windows games. In October, Valve released SteamOS 3.9.5, the first stable version in its 3.9 series, which updated the Linux kernel and KDE Plasma desktop environment.
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Valve's SteamOS 0.5.8 beta allows Steam Frame users to see remote desktop and game theater content while using camera passthrough, and enables OpenXR mixed reality blending for supported PC VR games.
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The FX Steam Launcher project uses Valve's ARM64 SteamOS to run Windows games on Apple Silicon Macs via a virtual machine.
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Valve released SteamOS 3.9.5, the first stable version in the 3.9 series, featuring an updated Linux kernel and KDE Plasma desktop environment.
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