SlimeVR-OpenVR-Driver
ALVR
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| C++ | Rust | |
| Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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SlimeVR-OpenVR-Driver
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How is VR gaming on Linux these days?
The body trackers might be a problem. According to https://github.com/SlimeVR/SlimeVR-OpenVR-Driver/issues/2 SlimeVR currently doesn't support Linux but that should change in the future (and it being open source and all, if you're capable of it you of course also have the option to put in the effort yourself to make it happen).
ALVR
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Valve Launches Official Steam Link PC VR Streaming App on Quest
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.
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VR Gaming on Linux is hard ( for me )
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.
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AMD Graphics Driver related issue with VR
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.
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Quest New User Megathread
You can play wirelessly using Air Link, Virtual Desktop, or ALVR.
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Pico 4...
They also have a detailed wiki page on GitHub
- ALVR v20.1.0 Released
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Best ALVR settings for AMD?
https://github.com/alvr-org/ALVR/wiki/Settings-guide Goes in-depth about a lot of the features/settings
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Unsure of switching to Linux
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.
- is there another software I can use to connect my quest 2 to steamvr? (not the oculus app or virtual desktop either)
What are some alternatives?
OpenHMD - Free and Open Source API and drivers for immersive technology.
SteamVR-for-Linux - Issue tracker for the Linux port of SteamVR
VirtualDesktop - Connect wirelessly to your computer(s) to watch movies, browse the web, play games on a giant virtual screen or stream PCVR games. Virtual Desktop is a highly optimized, native application developed for low latency, high quality streaming.
OpenOVR
ALVR-nightly - Nightly releases of ALVR - untested and potentially unstable.
VirtualDesktop - C# command line tool to manage virtual desktops in Windows 10
OpenOVR - https://gitlab.com/znixian/OpenOVR
OpenHMD - Free and Open Source API and drivers for immersive technology.
OpenXR-Toolkit - A collection of useful features to customize and improve existing OpenXR applications.
ALVR - Stream VR games from your PC to your headset via Wi-Fi
Proton - Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components