Here’s a super quick guide to signing up for the SteamVR Beta so that you can enjoy new features in VR before everyone else! Get that boxing ring!
How to get yourself SteamVR and this fancy boxing ring!
First things first, open up SteamVR and hover over “Library”. On the menu that appears, click “Tools”:
Head over to the Tools section
Then, scroll down and find “SteamVR” in the tools list, right-click it and choose “Properties”:
Going to the SteamVR properties
Then, in the Properties window that appears, click the “Betas” tab. In that tab, click on the dropdown and choose “beta – SteamVR Beta Update”:
The betas tab
It should then say “Successfully opted into the ‘beta’ content beta.” which means we’ve successfully signed up to the beta!
It has successfully set our SteamVR to the beta!
SteamVR should then update for us automatically!
SteamVR should automatically start updating itself
Enjoy that fancy new SteamVR beta. Fight the training robot. Explore all the new features. At the time of writing, I was inspired to write this to try out all of this stuff!
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