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Ask Soylent: Hardware for VR Gaming on GNU/Linux?

posted by martyb on Friday July 17 2020, @12:26AM   Printer-friendly
from the wishful-thinking dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

I had an experience with an HTC Vive a couple of years ago, and I'm now considering getting the hardware required to do proper VR.
Obviously, I'd like to play games, but I'm also interested in visualising data (in particular I see that VTK supports OpenVR).

So I was wondering whether anyone in the community here has succeeded in getting this to work under linux, and if they can comment on the hardware required.
I'd be grateful for any insights.

As I understand it, it's best to get 120FPS, otherwise the brain doesn't like it.
I see that system76 has a "thelio major" desktop that can handle a range of NVIDIA cards, but I honestly don't know which would be the minimum that still gets me reasonable performance.
Is it important to have a lot of memory, a lot of cores?
Will I be able to change the level of detail in games to gain in FPS?
Right now it looks to me like I'd need more than 3000 euros for the whole thing (computer+htc vive).
My wife may not approve.

In any case, with the possibility of a second wave of coronavirus in the winter, I'm under the impression a working VR system would be a reasonable addition to the "don't go crazy" activities around the house.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2020, @12:40AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2020, @12:40AM (#1022670)

    Instead of wasting it on half-baked VR equipment, spend the money on hookers. Wife will be just as pissed off but you'll be helping a small businessperson instead of a tech billionaire.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2020, @12:28PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2020, @12:28PM (#1022867)

    thank you for the suggestion, but the relationship is fine on that front.
    hopefully spending 3000 euros on a toy wouldn't change the status quo.

    • (Score: 1) by MikeVDS on Wednesday July 22 2020, @01:08PM

      by MikeVDS (1142) on Wednesday July 22 2020, @01:08PM (#1024924)

      Where is the "Woosh" mod?