Apple Vision Pro

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The Apple Vision Pro has a new use case, and it’s one that should see the dust shaken off a few of these technically impressive headsets: Steam Link.

Steam has released an early version of Steam Link for Apple Vision Pro headset, letting you stream games from a PC or Mac.

It is currently in beta, accessed as part of Apple’s TestFlight program, rather than the standard App Store.

Steam Link lets you access Steam games, which are then streamed over to the headset wirelessly. While a controller will be the best way to play such games, the app also supports inputs via Vision Pro control methods, including eye tracking and the pinch-to-click gesture.

Video can be streamed at up to 4K resolution too.

The big catch is only a flat video feed is supported at present. Steam Link for Vision Pro does not support VR titles, not yet anyway, and Steam has not announced any plans to make it VR-compatible.

Instead, content is viewed on a floating virtual screen, the curvature of which can be customized.

“This update improves network performance, allows streaming up to 4K resolutions, and allows you to dynamically adjust the curve of the display in panoramic mode. This client is for 2D streaming only and does not support VR content,” the announcement post on the Steam Community forums reads.

Early reports on how well the Apple Vision Pro’s version of Steam Link works are roundly positive. It’s a beta and there are bugs, but Gizmodo has called it “unexpectedly glorious” after a few hours of testing, while YouTube channel Himels Tech has posted a hands-on preview that offers a good walkthrough on how the app works and looks — as well as evidence of a couple of its more shaky early-state elements.

This is a very neat expansion of the capabilities of Apple’s Vision Pro, which these days does not make headlines all that often.

At the very end of 2025, it was reported Apple had cut back both Vision Pro production and marketing spend, owing to weak sales of the headset.

One big caveat for the future development of this app is the sheer power required to make demanding VR games look great on the Vision Pro will be significant, should they eventually be supported. Each eye of the Vision Pro commands 3660 x 3200 pixels, effectively meaning the attached PC needs to render well over two 4K instance’s worth of game content.

23 million pixels of image data is closer to the 33 million pixels of an 8K image than the eight million of a 4K TV’s worth of picture information.