Hello all,
I wanted to know the state of VR gaming on Linux: does VR work ? Are most games playable ?
I plan to buy a Valve Index, wanted to know how it would hold on a Linux system.
Thanks
I’m on Linux too and interested on VR headset but i struggle with the vaste amount of informations.
Do you have any good technical article/news about vr headset (lens, tracking, cpu, weight…) to share ? Thank a lot for your help !
I want to avoid meta (facebook) but the cost of the whole vr kit from Valve is astoundly expensive. And i’m also looking for a good hand tracking system.
You can get a well enough knowledge (I guess) from some of the more well known youtubers. (MIXED REALITY TV, VRelity, ThrillSeeker).
Thank for your suggestion, it will greatly help my research. I’m bookmarking it. :)
I have a Valve Index, and for the most part my experience has been really good. I do recommend using an AMD GPU if you are investing in a VR system. I currently have a Nvidia GPU, and the main issue is the lack of async reprojection support.
Lots of games work great, Skyrim VR, Alyx, Contractors, No Mans Sky VR, Boneworks, you name it!
I am no VR user (yet). Apparently it’s pretty meh. Basically only the Valve Index and HTC headsets support VR Linux (these are the main ones). Some games officially support Linux fortunately, for example VRChat, so that shouldn’t be an issue.
If you have Quest/Quest 2 you can still play VR games on Linux using ALVR.
I did make it to work on my Arch desktop, but the experience is not great as you need a lot of tweaks not to mention better to have Wifi6 and very good GPU/CPU to handle game and high resolution video encoding on top of it as both game and video encoding will eat you FPS.
But once it get connected and works with SteamVR rest works mostly fine.
But it’s better to buy Index if you want to play VR games on linux.
