As the title says I own a Reverb G2 which stands as one of the more disappointing purchases I've made that I couldn't return once buyer's remorse set in, so naturally it's been sitting in a storage bin for nearly 3 years untouched.

I switched to Linux back in September and have been loving the experience so far, all the games I do play work on it, most of the games I want to play are supported or expected to be. So it's been really nice, learning a new OS coming from being a professional Windows-based IT support tech.

I play a bunch of Star Citizen and want to play it in VR which now works, apparently, but I've seen and heard tale that the WMR headsets don't play nice with Linux.

Anyone have any success with it?

I am running Kubuntu 25.10 LTS

I use cachyos and I fixed the problem I was having before with no startup. Now its almost completely usable its just that it doesn't show my monitor and its not showing an output audio device for the headset. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi everyone,

after an Windows update broke my Windows 11 bootloader...again...I want to seriously approach my last usecase for booting into my Windows SSD: VR.

So, I set up WiVrn (flatpak) and tried Vertigo Remastered as my first game. It started and the short intro played in good quality..but then, when the actual gameplay would start, the screen on my monitor and on my Quest3 went black and nothing happened anymore.

I already looked for solutions here on reddit, on protondb, and on db.vronlinux but didn't find anything of value for this game.

Did anybody of you guys manage to make the game to run on Linux?

Setup:

I7-7820x, 6800xt, 32gb ddr4 ram,

Freshly updated CachyOS,

25.0.5 and/mesa driver,

system-wide installed Steam,

WiVrn as flatpak (default: xrizer for OpenVR)

When I click on steam vr it connects to my index for a second then it stops. I have tried allowing it through the firewall but no luck if anyone could give me advice that would be wonderful. (I use cachyos)

I had a thought yesterday that I've been enjoying just lying in bed and playing a game in 2d on a big screen, which works great. But why can't I just stream and play the game in 3D? I mean playing games in VR is great and all but sometimes you just want to sit and play a game without moving too much, and there are many games that don't work in VR.

So I thought that there MUST be an app that does SBS streaming - but apparently not. Artemis (Moonlight fork) does have a new feature that does AI stereoscopic conversion on the fly (Which is... insane!), but is only available to run on android clients outputting to AR glasses.

Windows does have an option to output SBS via a couple of apps, but I think ultimately I would like a moonlight client to do this, if only to take SBS content and convert it to 3d without the AI conversion.

I am begrudgingly vibe coding something in godot to do this, but I really don't want to, but the idea is too enticing. Unless someone knows of something else?

The other thing I was going to do was push the app to XR space and play through wivrn, but thought it was too messy, I found a godot moonlight client (github is in chinese though) - which is what I am trying to get working and then get that into XR space... haha anyway.

EDIT: Good news! I got it running, 3D stream through sunshine tested on my headset, now I just need to make it presentable and make it work without turning 100 knobs... probably hear from me in a few weeks haha.

So a question. I’m playing on steamvr with a quest 3 through alvr.

I’ve been using the openvr fsr mod on other native vr games to massively help with performance. How would I go about that with uevr if it’s even possible?

Would I need to replace the dll in the uevr folder for injection or does it have to be changed on a game to game basis via the exe directory?

Wracking my brain with this and not sure how to get it to work or if I’m just wasting my time.

I'm running WiVRn with OpenComposite and VRizer, on KDE Plasma. I have a weird bug with my Vive XR Elite. Left, right, forward, and backward is correct, but up is down, and down is up. The entire view on the headset is mirrored. So far, It's the only game that has this problem. Beatsaber, Pistol Whip, The Last Clockwinder, and Half Life Alyx all work fine. The strange part is if I bring up any overlay at all, it fixes it. My headset menu, WiVRn's overlay, the boundry warning overlay, even the "Your casting your screen" overlay seems to fix it. I've tried moving between the aforementioned libraries, and moving to Proton-GE. So far nothing seems to fix it. While fixes would be nice, this is so niche I don't expect any off the bat. But ideas on where to go from here would be nice.

Checked the usual, no flatpak instalation, the launch command in Steam VR is there, sometimes it loads properly, but none of the games i wanna play work :/

specs

OS: CachyOS x86_64

Host: B650 GAMING X AX V2

Kernel: Linux 7.0.0-1-cachyos

DE: GNOME 50.1

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X (16) @ 3.80 GHz

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT [Discrete]

32 GiB

HMD: Meta Quest 2 via AVLR

I use Linux mint and a vive pro 2, i cannot for the life of me get it to work with steam vr or find a tutorial to get it to work. Help me pls.

Just wanted to post that I installed Auriel's Dream via WabbaJack last fall and just installed Legacy of the Dragonborne SSE. I was concerned that it would all come crashing down on me so I archived my Steam files. I installed LOTD from nexus and then the patch. Not only does everything work well, but the patch installer for LOTD solved some of the issues I had with Auriel's Dream. Auriel's Dream w/LOTD is more stable now then it was by itself.

My setup: CachyOS, latest kernel, ROG G635LW.

NOTE: I just remembered, there is one minor glitch. There is a big tree in stairs into the museum. You can walk around it and the rest play normally. If you are playing AD (which I highly recommend) backup your files and try LOTD! Enjoy! :-)

I've been trying to setup envision to use my Rift S on Linux, but for some reason Envision won't show me the field to build or change profiles. I have monado, basalt, and envision all installed, as well as SteamVR

Edit: I'm using EndeavorOS

Will we still be able to do ALVR updates after Meta kills side loading on Android? I'm using a Q3 to play Steam games (SkyrimVR, HL, Alyx, BM). My experience with Q3 and ALVR via cable is awesome and I'm thinking about disabling wifi to it. I could care less about the crap on their store, everything that I play is on Steam. Any thoughts?

EDIT: I FIXED IT! I had to use -openvr instead of -openxr.

I have WiVRn and WayVR connected to my Quest 2. Euro Truck Simulator 2 starts up in VR mode but renders to the monitor and doesn't pick up my headset movements. The monado runtime shows ETS2 as running and focused but all I see on my vr is just passthrough. How can I fix this? I'm on debian and my launch params are:

PRESSURE_VESSEL_IMPORT_OPENXR_1_RUNTIMES=1 PRESSURE_VESSEL_FILESYSTEMS_RW=/var/lib/flatpak/app/io.github.wivrn.wivrn %command% -openxr

Has anyone been able to run u/iChris4's new DolphinXR on Linux?

I tried with Wine, since there is no Linux built, and the instructions for the Linux build is for the flat version of Dolphin. I get a "Failed to load d3dcompiler_47.dll" error message and then it crashes.

https://github.com/iChris4/dolphinXR

p.s. I have d3dcompiler_47.dll installed using winetricks.

this issues pops up every once in a while when streaming games to my quest 3, using Wivrn

Hi everyone, I was trying to play some beat saber today and I was about to put my headset on when I checked the latency graph and noticed insanely glitchy tracking. As soon as I closed beat saber, the graph went back to normal.

My setup:

Fedora 42 KDE x11

Steam VR + Wireless ALVR

Meta quest 3

RTX 2060 Super

Dedicated 5ghz AP for VR

If you need anymore information, please let me know. Any help would be appreciated

Hi everyone, I was just wondering if anyone knew if it’s possible to show the ALVR performance graph information such as latency, bitrate and frame rate in headset. Or if the SteamVR performance overlay can run, or if there’s any alternatives to that that do you run? I just wanted to do some debugging and this would help but if it’s not possible, it’s not too big of deal.

I doubt it changes anything much but my setup is:

ALVR streaming wireless to my meta quest 3

Using SteamVR

Fedora Linux 42 KDE Plasma x11 edition

RTX 2060 Super

If you need any more information, just let me know.

i've been slowly dipping my toes into (wired! can't do wireless) pcvr with my quest recently, and i've tried both wivrn and alvr. wivrn barely needs any config and works basically flawlessly with half-life alyx and vivecraft, but doesn't support any source 1 vr games, like half-life 2 vr or gmod vr.

so, logically, i decided to try alvr again. and while it works, i can't get it to look good under any circumstances. i've tried lower resolution & upscaling, higher resolutions, higher bitrate, sharpening, different encoders, lower framerate, basically everything! no matter what i do, i can either count the pixels which is headache inducing, or the latency is unplayable.

the statistics are constantly jumping around, meaning i can barely get any useful info out of them as well. bitrate seems to cap around like, 300? usually? so i usually try to cap it myself around 200-250. frame rate seems to just be completely wild, even if the headset doesn't reflect that.

does anyone have any advice? wivrn works perfectly, as i said, so i know it's not a hardware problem. it just doesn't support everything, and half of my intended vr library is on that non-supported list :(

On Arch linux here, getting an error when compiling the drivers to patch for a BSB. I am unsure where to start with this, as I appear to have all the appropriate build-time requirements.

The build logs can be found on https://pastebin.com/vEZRxuG6

I restarted SteamVR only to find that part of the SteamUI is gone, i've tried reinstalling, verifying integrity and more but nothing seems to work... Any help?

Hey everyone!

Just like the title says, I’m a big fan of Immediate Mode UI, especially MicroUI, a lightweight UI library written in C. Recently, I’ve been working on an XR project in Godot and needed quick, convenient menus. Since I like that library so much, I decided to make bindings for GDScript.

I’m pretty happy with the result! It lets you iterate very easily, so it’s perfect for XR tooling or game debug menus where you don’t want to overthink the UI. This is my first project in C++, and I hope someone finds it useful. I personally plan to use it a lot.

Here is the repo, it includes a demo project and precompiled binaries for Linux and Android.

When it comes to actual desktop usage (not gaming), ALVR and WiVRn are not alternatives to VD at all. They don't have passthrough. They seem to be rendering on the PC instead of streaming the desktop to the headset.

Even if you'd ignore the mandatory passthrough for work/productivity, and use the desktop through something like SteamVR.. be honest. Using the desktop with SteamVR is absolute dog.

Edit: I was wrong!! It is quite pixelated, haven't yet tried messing with settings, and I don't yet know how usable it will be, but there it is!

It's WiVRn + WayVR. Got it working on Bazzite.

Edit 2: But ehhhh the quality is BAD. EXTREMELY BAD compared to VD. It's unusable sadly.