• yoevli@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m approaching the point where I’m seriously considering buying a spare drive for a Windows install exclusively for VR. I’m currently dealing with 3 separate serious issues with SteamVR on Linux, one of which I sometimes can’t even work around depending on how it’s feeling that day. Not to mention, every new release lately seems to introduce a new problem.

    I haven’t had a Windows install on my system since my previous SSD died 2 or 3 years ago, but it’s getting to the point where it’s more trouble than it’s worth.

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      1 year ago

      This is why I have a windows box. I’m hoping when they finally release SteamOS 3 for PC it will have stable SteamVR support.

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        1 year ago

        It’s not fully supported: https://old.reddit.com/r/ValveIndex/comments/zs8snv/vr_on_linux_makes_me_sad/

        No async reprojection

        No bluetooth support for base stations power management

        Does not work on Wayland, at all (Nobara, KDE)

        Lacks the ability for you to continue using your headset if for some reason it disconnects and reconnects (base stations will not be detected, neither will any bluetooth adapters like the SW7)

        A plethora of bugs

        It feels like my headset view is on a delay? Maybe due to no async reprojection

        I’m quoting this guy because I think that VR straight up doesn’t work on NixOS, and I haven’t gotten to testing my Index on any other os yet.

        https://xeiaso.net/blog/nixos-vr-hell-2021-12-02/ <- It seems this guy wasn’t able to get VR working on NixOS either.