OpenVR-WalkInPlace VS ALVR

I have spare baby playpen set up 6ft away from the computer/desk and I tethered an exercise resistance band to the corner of the playpen nearest the desk and then loop that around my waist. My back is to the desk in the playpen corner so the cables won't get in the way. Now I should be able to walk in place and not actually go anywhere. I won't need to worry about pets or anything getting in the way as it's gated off. Then I'm thinking about using the free OpenVR-WalkInPlace driver that seems to be able to do either head bobbing or arm swinging movement.

For Steam you could probably use an Overlay app. Examples of this include https://github.com/dantman/elite-vr-cockpit, https://github.com/OpenVR-Advanced-Settings/OpenVR-AdvancedSettings and https://github.com/pottedmeat7/OpenVR-WalkInPlace (or Natural Locomotion)

You should give OpenVR Walk-in-place a shot.

You could try Open VR Walk in Place. https://github.com/pottedmeat7/OpenVR-WalkInPlace

Not a mod per se but Open VR walk-in-place was a huge boon for immersion.

I don’t know creation kit, but is this what you are trying to do? https://github.com/pottedmeat7/OpenVR-WalkInPlace

For roomscale large world games, get OpenVR Walk in Place working. It's a game changer.

https://github.com/alvr-org/alvr

They also achieve very low latency, I didn't follow every single optimization they added but it basically boils down to a few encoding tricks (better image in the center, accept blurriness in the peripheral vision), good network infrastructure, and hardware decoding / encoding being really fast.

To use steamvr on flatpak I used this tutorial . There was a disclaimer that nvidia GPUs are not supported, but the guy that suggested it has a 3090, so it might work for me too.

They have a Wiki page on GitHub with a settings tutorial and troubleshooting. A downside with a lot of open-source software is that it's relatively difficult to setup but it might fix some of your issues.

You can play wirelessly using Air Link, Virtual Desktop, or ALVR.

They also have a detailed wiki page on GitHub

https://github.com/alvr-org/ALVR/wiki/Settings-guide Goes in-depth about a lot of the features/settings

Quest 2 needs some workarounds (dev mode account), but once you've done those you can just install ALVR (I recommend nightly). As for the games, check ProtonDB. Some VR games (Pavlov beta, for example) have EAC that blocks proton. Some VR games don't work with ALVR due to https://github.com/alvr-org/ALVR/issues/1392, like the Pavlov beta and Crawlspace. Just install the proprietary NVIDIA drivers and use Xorg and most things should work fine. Steam has Proton, which lets you play Windows games with high performance.