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Door staff@engadget.com (Jack Peachey) - 22 Sep 2026
Before you boot anything up, you'll notice that you're within SteamVR Home, a digital hub where you can invite friends to chat and interact through avatars. You can also decorate the space with items purchased on Steam or unlocked through certain Steam achievements.
With a quick tap of the menu or system button on your controller, you'll be able to pull up the dashboard. Here, you can browse Steam and choose VR-compatible titles to play from your library or new titles in the store, as well as fiddle with your VR settings. You can also pull up your computer desktop within virtual reality from this area.
Whether or not you're rocking one of the best VR headsets available in 2026, SteamVR will allow you to keep tabs on all of your tech through its settings, some of which can get pretty advanced. By pushing the cog icon in the right corner of the dashboard (or by accessing settings via the Desktop button in the left corner), you can tweak things to your liking and open up not only the aforementioned Chaperone system, but all manner of brightness, resolution, and graphics toggles.
Here, you can also play around with more advanced settings, which include Motion Smoothing (moderating a game's frame rate to reduce motion sickness), Controller Bindings, and Advanced Frame Timings (which shows you how individual VR apps perform).
With a quick tap of the menu or system button on your controller, you'll be able to pull up the dashboard. Here, you can browse Steam and choose VR-compatible titles to play from your library or new titles in the store, as well as fiddle with your VR settings. You can also pull up your computer desktop within virtual reality from this area.
Whether or not you're rocking one of the best VR headsets available in 2026, SteamVR will allow you to keep tabs on all of your tech through its settings, some of which can get pretty advanced. By pushing the cog icon in the right corner of the dashboard (or by accessing settings via the Desktop button in the left corner), you can tweak things to your liking and open up not only the aforementioned Chaperone system, but all manner of brightness, resolution, and graphics toggles.
Here, you can also play around with more advanced settings, which include Motion Smoothing (moderating a game's frame rate to reduce motion sickness), Controller Bindings, and Advanced Frame Timings (which shows you how individual VR apps perform).