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

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: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2020, @04:48AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2020, @04:48AM (#1022765)

    Yeah I'm also a quest user. I would have far preference a much more open non Facebook owned product, but it's a trade off with the current options. I'm still waiting for somone to port some of the virtual machine and link options to linux proton, or completely root the quest and give us some native link options.. something... there are some opensource projects that support windows wrt the virtual machine and link, but they're fairly heavily use of directX. Not sure what it would take to do an opengl port of those, a bit out side my field of expertise.
    Hardware wise the quest seems pretty good, I got it mainly as a fitness tool, playing beatsabre and pistol whiped regularly gives me a lazy/fun option as a cardio workout. Being able to take it anywhere/travel also is a massive plus for it. Cant wait to see what the next gen brings us.

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