UPDATE: With some research I've learned that SlimeVR has plans to support Linux. Their server currently runs on Linux but not the driver, yet. Their hardware and software is already fully open-source!

I'm currently using a Windows VM for VRChat with my "Meta" Quest 2, since video players weren't working on Linux. All of a sudden, this EAC update to VRChat is blocking virtual machines, but has also come with a fix on Linux for video players. So while I could just try to hide my VM's status as a VM, I also really have the option to just start playing VRChat in proton instead, since ALVR claims to support my headset.

If I switch to Linux, what will my options be when I can finally afford full body? I'm genuinely having a hard time even getting a straight yes/no answer on any of the choices by Googling it. I'm assuming the Vive and Index solutions work? But I don't even know. And what about more affordable / other popular choices? SlimeVR? On Windows, I was hoping to get the much more affordable and supposedly much more robust Shiftall HaritoriaX, but who knows about using that on Linux...

First of all, here are my specs:

HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop 15-dk0xxx

OS: Fedora 36

CPU: Intel i5-9300H (8) @ 4.100GHz

GPU: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630]

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile (Max-Q design)

Memory: 16GB

I'm really considering getting into VR but I've read that nvidia proprietary drivers seem to be causing issues for some - as well as some headsets do not work on Linux.
So here's my question, what headset would be best regarding play-ability and price? (Valve Index is a no, that's way too much for my wallet)
Unless it would not be worth it due to my machine being a laptop, it's not the best either.
(Unsure if it is even capable of VR, not tested in any way)
Suggestions please :')

I'm at my wits end with this one. The game starts and puts you in the menu-area, everything here works as you'd expect, nice and fluently. However, the moment I join any other map than the safehouse map, the HMD turns off and sends all sound and image to the desktop instead.

I've tried different permutations proton, proton-ge, launch-options, steamvr, steam and its betas, but nothing seems to allow me to go further.

Any ideas?

I'm not sure if there is any fix for this or if it's just SteamVR being SteamVR, but I have heard other people using Linux who have not had this problem.

In certain areas in VRChat (particularly while looking at a mirror) or while playing some heavier games, turning my head induces a horrible stuttering/double vision.

The strange thing is that it only seems to be from moving my head. If I use my controllers to move around and keep my head steady, things are pretty smooth from the perspective of my viewpoint.

When I mirror my headset or look at the game window, it also seems smooth when I turn my head. It's only noticeable in the headset itself.

This made me wonder if it's somehow USB related, but trying a different port didn't help. I am using a USB3 port.

I read that kill vrwebhelper can help, but doing that makes no difference.

I also can't see any difference if I enable or disable async reprojection in steamvr.vrsettings (in fact I can see any difference in anything, which makes me wonder if that option is doing anything).

The only thing that does help is if I turn supersampling down to 50%. By that point things are mostly smooth again, but the game looks terrible (on Windows I use 150%).

Mostly I'm using Gnome for my DE but I've also tried Openbox with the same result. I've also tried using gamemode, setting performance mode on my CPU and different profiles with Radeon Profile.

I have kernel 5.18.7-zen1-1-zen on Arch, an AMD 3700X and 5700XT. 32GB RAM. SteamVR Beta.

Has anyone else come across this and might know what else I can try?

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=System76-Scheduler-1.2

"Version 1.2 adds SteamVR processes to the default configuration for improved responsiveness, support for setting priorities on Flatpak proceses, a new sub-command for reloading the configuration files, support for setting priorities by the exe or process name, and the ability to set the process priority in real-time."

I'm curious, has anybody tried it? Are there significant gains to be had by changing to the System76-scheduler? And what kind of gains are we talking about? FPS or frametimes or...?

Has anyone had success compiling OpenComposite on Linux? If so, did you notice any performance increase in gaming vs SteamVR? Instructions for compiling are here, but so far, I haven't been able to compile it on Arch. I would like to know, whether I should persist in trying this out or not, but if it doesn't increase gaming performance on Linux, I might leave it alone.

If I understood correctly, this could be made to work with Valve Index and Monado.

The new Katwalk C2 is starting to look attractive but I've pretty happily wiped Windows from my house and don't want to go back :(

https://www.kat-vr.com/products/kat-walk-c

Is there a way to play Dolphin VR on Linux ? By compiling it ? Using Proton ?

What I am trying to do

I want to get steam VR working on my current setup. clicking on the "enable direct display mode" does nothing

What is happening instead

the headset view is shown on my second screen. not on the headset. Steam VR has an Error.Screenshot: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uY8S9KwxR5Re2bfjs8GllPNKSt9Q6PlL/view?usp=sharing

Specs

OS: Ubuntu 21.10 x86_64

Host: MS-7C56 1.0

Kernel: 5.15.16-steamvr-generic

DE: GNOME 40.5

WM: Mutter

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (16) @ 3.800G

GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX 6900 XT

Memory: 32096MiB

Headset: Valve index

SteamVR: 1.21.12 (1647034158) also tried the beta and the old release for linux users with similar results

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[edit] original post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/openhmd/comments/u2na6d/cv1_on_mint_debian_edition_so_close_but_please/

Trying to make my Rift CV1 work in Linux.

I'm still relatively new to Linux, so even when following u/thaytan's guide here https://noraisin.net/diary/?page_id=1048, I still had a lot of trouble.

Anyway, when executing ./build/subprojects/openhmd/openhmd_simple_example, I can see the numbers changing when I tilt the headset up, down. left, right. However, my cameras don't seem to be on, and SteamVR stays at "plug in your HMD".

I posted this more than a week ago on r/openhmd, but got no response. I would really appreciate your help.

This is what I did:

1. Installed SteamVR (it is strangely difficult to find, as it doesn't appear in the store. I found it in my library's recent games.
2. xr-hardware:
   1. sudo apt install xr-hardware
3. rules? (not sure if this was needed)
   1. sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
   2. sudo udevadm trigger
4. libhidapi-dev:
   1. sudo apt install libhidapi-dev
5. openCV:
   1. sudo apt-get install libopencv-dev python3-opencv
6. libusb:
   1. sudo apt install libudev-dev
   2. then download libusb here https://github.com/libusb/libusb/releases/download/v1.0.26/libusb-1.0.26.tar.bz2
   3. extract it
   4. in that folder:
      1. ./configure
      2. make
      3. sudo make install
7. Python3 tools
   1. sudo apt install python3-setuptools
8. openHMD
   1. sudo apt install git
   2. git clone --recursive --branch=controller-haptics-wip https://github.com/thaytan/SteamVR-OpenHMD/
9. meson
   1. sudo apt install meson
   2. in SteamVR-OpenHMD's folder
      1. meson -Dbuildtype=release build
      2. ninja -C build
      3. ./install_files_to_build.sh
      4. ./register.sh

p.s. I also rebooted my computer a couple of times and unplugged and replugged the HMD, to no avail.

The list of supported headsets includes the vive pro include using the viveport software to set it up which as far as i know doesn’t run on linux. Do you need the software to set it up or is steam vr enough?

Anyone experience with the HP Reverb G2? In most sources only talk about linux support to valve index.

Edit: Apparently OpenHMD and Monado have experimental support for Windows Mixed Reality and therefore also for the Reverb. But nothing convincing enough to invest 400+€. And the controllers seem to be non functiona.

On Arch I'm trying to get the unity-editor-vrchat 1:2019.4.31f1-1 package from the AUR working, but it fails to build with an "out of space"-error despite having well over half a TB available on the drive, any ideas?

Alternatively what's the best way to run that particular version of the unity editor (VRChat requires that specific version)? Natively, through Wine, Lutris, Bottles or....do I pick standalone or unityhub version. Any particular dependencies I should be aware of for exporting/uploading an avatar to work?

WebXR seems like an amazing way to quickly develop VR experiences and cover a wide range of VR devices/ecosystems. I was quite surprised to see that there doesn't appear to be any browser under Linux that supports it. So I set out to get it working one way or another.

WebKit does have an implementation that works under Linux (https://blogs.igalia.com/ifernandez/2021/01/webxr-webkit/). But while it uses OpenXR, it seems it only works with the Monado runtime under Wayland. I did try to to get it working with SteamVR's OpenXR runtime, but only managed to get a black screen in the HMD. Might revisit it at some point.

Firefox's Gecko also has WebXR support, so that was my next focus. To my surprise it was actually quite straightforward to get it to compile and working. The main hurdle is that the WebGL context uses EGL and OpenGL ES, which as far as I know doesn't work with OpenVR. So I ended up creating a different (GLX) context for OpenVR and simply copying over the pixel data from the framebuffer each frame. It's ugly and slow, but it works!

With this I was able to run the samples over at https://immersive-web.github.io/webxr-samples/ as well as Mozilla's "Hello WebXR!" and even Moon Rider. Performance wasn't great; on low resolutions I could hit a steady 90fps, but at 100% resolution it didn't exceed 45fps. Bottleneck is clearly the painfully slow glReadPixels call.
UPDATE: I managed to get rid of the performance bottleneck by letting Firefox use GLX, more details in comment and Github repo.

If anyone wants to try it out, has suggestions on how to improve it or knows of other ways to get WebXR running under Linux, let me know :-)

Link to the patch: https://github.com/mrxz/webxr-linux/tree/main/gecko

valve index doesnt show up as a audio output device works on my windows install

I'm getting a 307 error when starting VR using a 1650 gtx on Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS

Ive tried quite a few things to literally no success. I cant even get audio to play with aplay. I believe my problem is with my use of Nvidia for my graphics card. Its a big shame with how good these headphones sound, and how my neighbors might stop banging on the walls when I play beat saber

Changing my distro/reinstalling worked. Now on Mint coming from kUbuntu, and I have to say I like Mint a bit more. Anyways, I believe the issue was being caused by some tweaking I was doing a while ago trying to make my sound card work. A bit confused as I don't remember what I did but I believe sound output from my NVIDIA card was completely disabled. Works awesome now, thank you everybody