They talked about streaming VR games from the SteamOS based steam machine to it.

So with that I’d assume we’re finally getting some much needed progress to SteamVR on linux.

The headset itself is running linux and it is meant to be used with the steam machine, which also runs on linux.

pretty sure it’s SteamOS, an Arch Linux derivative, on a fairly popular Snapdragon platform. probably not too difficult to hack on it.

My understanding from the video is that the headset will run SteamOS itself.

Its a standalone headset that runs steamos.