As much as i love the powerposters keeping this place alive. I also wanna know whats going on a personal level with my fellow lemmings?

What do you play? What hardware do you use? Anything interesting involving software?

This place needs some involvement besides snarky comments on the newest bullshit our tech overlords try to pull.

Like i distro-hopped to cachyOS and i’m amazed how well VR works on Linux compared to half a year ago.

Links:

But this post isnt about linux. Just something i(!) experience right now. Gimme your best Windows VR Games. Who cares. Make this community about ourselves!

  • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.socialEnglish
    6·
    15 days ago

    I only very rarely use my VR, I enjoy it immensely, but find that between all the things I need to set it up (switching to my windows partition, getting the relevant cables connected, opening the linking app on both my pc and headset, then loading steam VR and then whatever game) I rarely have the patience when I’m just looking for something fun to do and only get into it when I’m really interested in the vr stuff in particular. I also find it uncomfortable after an hour or so, mostly the facial interface feeling hot and scratchy, and the weight of the headset slowing my head down.

    Admittedly I think a lot of that is down to my setup and I’ve been contemplating getting a nicer one. I currently have a pico neo 3 link, which I only ever use with the displayport cable for pcvr. Ive been contemplating getting the beyond 2, since face comfort has been my biggest issue in vr in general and I figure a physically smaller headset ought to help in that regard, but the expense of it gives me some pause.

    • mittorn@masturbated.one
      3·
      15 days ago

      @CarbonIceDragon @Brett everything sounds like you just using wrong headset.
      If it’s pico neo 3, try using it wireless. And booting windows to play games now sounds cringe.
      Install wivrn or alvr. You may try this wrapper if using old firmware:
      https://git.disroot.org/mittorn/openxr-khronos-wrapper/releases (but i did not try using it with neo3)
      Also, i think it is not very hard to make some neo3 link tracking driver for linux, but it’s too rare thing, so nobody made this yet :)

      • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.socialEnglish
        4·
        15 days ago

        I originally got it because of the displayport passthrough, I had heard that one needed a pretty good wifi setup for wireless vr linking and that it tended to have lower quality, though that might be out of date, idk. That’s also why I’ve been using it through windows, as while I know a project that would let one use pico headsets on Linux exists, I don’t know of it supporting that feature, and the normal pico link app to use that isn’t something that wine seems to work on, at least from when I last tried it.

        • mittorn@masturbated.one
          2·
          15 days ago

          @CarbonIceDragon Is it possible to run android application while DP is connected? If so, it may send streaming data to PC via wifi or usb.But i do not know how neo3 dp is implemented. Anyway it should be possible to capture usb messages under windows and implement driver for linux

          • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.socialEnglish
            3·
            15 days ago

            I’m not sure to be honest, I’ve literally only ever used the thing for wired pcvr, I’ve not touched the standalone android stuff the headset has on account of all the games I’ve wanted to run being pc based or at least running better on it. I wouldn’t be surprised of it is possible to create a Linux driver for that feature, but I have nothing even close to the knowledge and skillset, my computer skills aren’t too impressive by Lemmy standards I’d imagine and just installing and using Linux for most things has been taxing on them at times.