OpenHMD VS steamvr_utils

What headset do you have? VR works great when it works, but the protocols on Linux don't play well with all headsets. If you have a Vive, Vive Pro, or Index, it should work well with SteamVR. Otherwise, you'll have to dig around and test yourself using something like OpenHMD or more likely Monado, which both have limited device support. In my search, I came across this page, which might help you out.

A quick search suggests that people have been struggling to get HP Reverb (and the G2) headset working in Linux, particularly with SteamVR. OpenHMD has this issue open currently, though with no recent activity. I don't own any VR headsets, so I won't be of much help.

Here A guy fixes the same issue by defining which port to use I think but running

This is called OpenHMD watch a video on it to see if you are interested https://github.com/OpenHMD/OpenHMD

Sadly it looks like they already got a dump of both the 8kX and the 5k+ a few years back with no progress from it, and the project has been in limbo since the last commit is from 2021

For WMR there's the OpenHMD project which gives only seated play, no motion tracking.

There are also Open Source driver for CV1 and a lot of other headsets with OpenHMD, those drivers however are mostly just 3DOF, which limits their usefulness.

https://github.com/OpenHMD/OpenHMD i used this to get my Oculus Rift CV1 "running". There are prebuilt packages in the AUR.

As for making Bluetooth power management work under Linux, I use this script to automatically turn the base stations on and off. Note that Bluetooth functionality isn't entirely out of the question for SteamVR Linux, and the Index is already supported as of earlier this year. There's no official comment about the Vive (nor the Index actually), but it'll probably happen. Eventually.

There is steamvr_utils script https://github.com/DavidRisch/steamvr_utils which changes audio output and turns on/off basestations. But it's not working properly if you're using pipewire instead pulseaudio (for me at least)

For instance, the index base stations don't go into standby automatically, and the bluetooth layer in the linux version of SteamVR just doesn't function, so currently I rely on https://github.com/DavidRisch/steamvr_utils to set my lighthouses into standby when I'm not using them. It's a pain, but it works!

I recently got steam VR to work really well, using this.

I wrote a python program to do that on Linux: https://github.com/DavidRisch/steamvr_utils

Yeah, that graphics card is what's slowing the experience down, I don't think you'd see any difference using Windows. As for the audio, try using this: https://github.com/DavidRisch/steamvr_utils

Just found out about steamvr_utils thanks to this, really cool stuff