The headset itself is running linux and it is meant to be used with the steam machine, which also runs on linux.
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iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 1 month agoAny ideas on Linux support?
aski3252@lemmy.world 1 month ago
chrash0@lemmy.world 1 month ago
pretty sure it’s SteamOS, an Arch Linux derivative, on a fairly popular Snapdragon platform. probably not too difficult to hack on it.
Cooper8@feddit.online 1 month ago
It days right in the marketing text that the headset is “a PC” which to me implies full SteamOS distro with no limitations on installing a different OS, if you can get the many hardware drivers to work.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
It says that it can run Windows applications so it might be the first VR headset that you can actually develop a game on.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
My understanding from the video is that the headset will run SteamOS itself.
Euphoma@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Its a standalone headset that runs steamos.
vodka@feddit.org 1 month ago
They talked about streaming VR games from the SteamOS based steam machine to it.
So with that I’d assume we’re finally getting some much needed progress to SteamVR on linux.
Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Yeah, this is what I’m most looking forward to in the immediate sense tbh. It’ll be nice to play HLA without crashing every time it loads a new level as it currrently does for me in SteamVR (Monado doesn’t have this issue, but I can’t use my left-handed controls without Steam input :-|)