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I was also pleasantly surprised by how well VR works on Linux and how much work had been put in to make even the Proton experience seamless. I now have over 150
by foxrider 6y ago
I was also pleasantly surprised by how well VR works on Linux and how much work had been put in to make even the Proton experience seamless. I now have over 1500 hours in VR exclusively on Linux.
- sliken 6y agoWhat are your favorite VR games/apps on linux?
- foxrider 6y agoBoneworks certainly takes the cake as my absolute VR title. It beats even Alyx in terms of gameplay alone. Playtime-wise I spent most hours in Elite Dangerous - flying in an HMD adds so much to the game that its hard to put in words how immersed I feel.
- leeoniya 6y agoi'm waiting to try Alyx, cause i think the outlay for the hardware alone will be quite large. any insight into how compatible Valve's Index will be with non-valve games? i don't really wanna drop $2k-$3k to play a single title and have the VR hardware work poorly with other games or become obsolete in 2 months; the pace of state-of-the-art in VR was so rapid, that i didn't want to spend money on anything until some bug-free plateau was reached.
- zlsa 6y agoValve Index will work with any SteamVR game natively, and with a community-maintained wrapper, will work with many Oculus exclusive titles as well.
- mikenew 6y agoThe Index controllers can do everything other controllers can do + extra stuff. If you play a game that doesn't have finger tracking, that just means you don't get finger tracking. But the controllers themselves work just fine. There are some games that might not have a good set of bindings for the index controllers by default (something might be bound to "squeeze the grip" when it should be bound to the trigger, for example), but you just open the settings menu (inside VR), click "custom bindings", and then pick the most upvoted community made set of bindings and it just works. Takes a few seconds.
- gen3 6y agoI bought and index and have been driving it with a 2700x and 1060 6gb. Alyx was hands down one of, if not the best gaming experience I’ve ever had. I think the index controllers really take the experience to another level. Being able to pick up things by grabbing them is awesome. The headphones on the index are amazing too, and really help with immersion. Support with other games is pretty good. I bought a bunch of games during the summer sale, and haven’t found anything unplayable for me. Not all games have full finger tracking, and not all games have the ability to pick things up like you can in Alyx. Some older games have been updated for Alyx style controls, but many control exactly how they did with the Vive. I tried VR in Linux first, then tried on windows. Windows has better feature support and performance hands down. If you have a better GPU, you might be fine, but the advantages to booting into windows was worth it to me.
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- throwaway3699 6y agoIndex will work with anything. And vice versa, any headset can play Alyx well. If you're not up for spending all the money, you can mix and match SteamVR controllers/headsets (e.g. old school Vive with the fancier Knuckles Controllers).
- RamRodification 6y agoIsn't Oculus stuff DRM:ed to Oculus setups only somehow? Through their appstore maybe? Or have I just eaten the FUD to make me believe that
- jowsie 6y agoPretty much every game worth playing is also available on steam or via some other method. If you REALLY want the Oculus stuff there's always Revive. https://github.com/LibreVR/Revive https://github.com/LibreVR/Revive
- RamRodification 6y agoThanks
- porphyra 6y agoNot OP, but Beat Saber and Project Cars 2 work flawlessly in VR via Proton. Pretty surprising tbh. And of course Half Life Alyx is natively supported.
- xtracto 6y agoWhat's a good VR setup for Linux?
- ekianjo 6y agoValve Index + AMD GPU.
- ourlordcaffeine 6y agoHmmm, for me, with steamvr and a htc vive on linux, there is about a half second delay on tracking which quickly gives me nausea. The issue does not happen on windows.