Today we've updated SteamVR Home with three new maps, a new asset pack system, and other quality of life improvements.
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New Maps
Explore the ins and outs of a supervillain's lair in the latest SteamVR Home environment from Valve. The Team Fortress 2 Supervillain Lair has everything an aspiring evil genius needs. Labs! Tunnels! Alligators! Electric fences! Motivational posters! Chairs! Look hard enough and you'll be able to unlock an interactable mini-sentry turret collectible from Team Fortress 2 - you may need to bring along a friend to help you explore this vast, part-subterranean complex.
We've also created three new spins on the standard Summit Pavilion home environment - there's now more room to customize things, a waterfall, and a cozy fire to virtually warm your virtual self. Even better, these three maps will only require a minimal download, since they take advantage of our new asset pack system. Speaking of which...
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Asset Packs
Today we're introducing an asset pack system to SteamVR Home. This means that content creators can share the assets from their maps with other creators, and other creators can utilize these assets (models, textures, particles, etc) when creating their own maps. Even better, if a player has downloaded a map that uses an asset pack - any other map using that asset pack will be a much smaller download.
We've made asset packs available for Summit Pavilion and the Supervillain Lair environments - we're excited to see what you will make! For more information about creating destinations and asset packs, visit the SteamVR Home Wiki.
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More Updates
The big community wall in the default environment has been reorganized to show more games in each category (sorted by current player count). We've also added a new category to the wall - Free VR Apps. We think this will make it easier for players to discover and launch popular games on SteamVR.
All panels (Screenshots, Desktop, Steam Big Picture, Friends List, etc) are now resizable the same way all props are resizable. Simply grab with both hands and pull apart to scale up, or bring your hands together to scale down. In addition, all panels are now grabbable from anywhere - not just the edge.
We're excited to ship all this new content and these new features to the community. Let us know what you think in the forums.