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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.
(Score: 2) by Rich on Saturday July 18 2020, @06:59AM
Indeed. Thanks to everyone who replied here. In the meantime, I had another look for one of the old passive LG monitors (in FHD), found a good offer and ordered it, together with some glasses. We'll see how it works. As I understand, they use circular polarization and are Real3D compatible, i.e. you can even use the good glasses in cinemas.
It's a pity they are not made anymore. If I wanted to reproduce my experiment, I'd still have to look for active glasses. Fortunately there is a paper on the confusion with all the possible signaling methods, the hardest part is probably to get the images past the Linux compositors and a precise frame sync whenever this happens. I'd also look away from the Raspi and towards the RK3399 if I had to try.
One might start to believe in conspiracy theories about this sector, after getting an overview of the huge mess it is.