SteamOS 0.5.8 Beta for Steam Frame and SteamVR Beta 2.19.2 released

7 Nov 2026 at 11:53 am UTC | Last updated: 7 Nov 2026 at 2:45 pm UTC
By Liam Squires-Hand

Valve just released SteamOS 0.5.8 Beta for Steam Frame and SteamVR Beta 2.19.2 for all users, bringing numerous improvements to smoothen some rough edges.

SteamVR 2.19.2 Updates

Steam Link:

• Fixed several regressions with overlays and game menus introduced in SteamVR 2.19.1.
• Fixed an occasional crash when the streaming resolution changes.
• Fixed transient visual artifacts when streaming resolution changes.
• Restored the ability to reduce the encoding resolution down to 512.
• Improved resilience to brief network-related stream interruptions.

Linux:

• Fixed launch issues on Linux when running the SteamRT3 client but the Legacy Steam Runtime was not installed in the default Steam library.

General:

• Fixed an issue causing the Quick Access Menu battery tab to report the right controller twice with some 3rd party drivers (eg: PSVR2).

SteamOS 0.5.8 Beta for Steam Frame

Camera Pass Through / Room View:

• PC Streaming now supports Room View. Previously, enabling Room View would hide remote content.
  • You can now see remote desktop / remote game theater while camera passthrough is active.
  • PC VR games with OpenXR mixed reality support are now able to blend VR content and camera passthrough. (Example: X-Plane 12).
  Note: this feature requires also opting into the beta branch of SteamVR on PC
  To opt into the beta branch of SteamVR on PC, right-click on SteamVR in your Steam library, select Properties, Game Versions & Beta, and choose beta.

General

• Overlay render quality is now always set to Low on Steam Frame, and the option is hidden. This fixes problems that happened when Ultra was selected.
• Improved eye tracking self-calibration.
• Fixed low-end gamma response, including inconsistencies between eyes, on some headsets.
• Fixed a permission issue that prevented WebXR from working in Chrome v157.

Developers:

• Allows OpenXR games streamed from PC to use XR_ENVIRONMENT_BLEND_MODE_ALPHA_BLEND.

SteamVR has been updated to version 2.19.2.

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