Recently I covered the draft code to add a full VR mode into the KDE Plasma desktop, and it has only continued to get more advanced with recent updates.
But it’s still a full fledged ARM computer running SteamOS including full desktop support. It’s just a matter of time until you can put a mainline Linux distribution on it and have it do whatever you want.
My guess is that Valve market it as a streaming-first device because they don’t have as many VR titles in their catalogue that can run on it as Meta has for the Quest. It’s a safer bet not to rely on devs porting their lighter games to the Frame.
And if they do not manage to get Alyx running on it comfortably nobody will blame them because they never promised it in the first place.
But it is not an exclusively tethered device. Never was. It is a full on gaming PC. Just not one with the power to run newer games. But it’s plenty powerful enough to run all of the Team Beef ports. And besides playing those and lighter flat games I will enjoy playing around with a fully functional Linux OS on a VR headset.
I’m very out of the loop with VR stuff, but am i correct that currently VR on linux is a no go? and frame can not be ran from my linux gaming rig? last I’ve used any VR set was like 10 years ago with oculus rift and i could only play a few games on windows, or use the oculus store…
dreaming of playing all of the gta games in VR some day
No, VR works on Linux. One of the easier ways to get it running on something like Meta’s Quest 3 is Valve’s Steam Link. And older tethered headsets like Valve’s Index work as well.
And there are even open source solutions like ALVR to work with streaming headsets.
But it’s still a full fledged ARM computer running SteamOS including full desktop support. It’s just a matter of time until you can put a mainline Linux distribution on it and have it do whatever you want.
My guess is that Valve market it as a streaming-first device because they don’t have as many VR titles in their catalogue that can run on it as Meta has for the Quest. It’s a safer bet not to rely on devs porting their lighter games to the Frame.
And if they do not manage to get Alyx running on it comfortably nobody will blame them because they never promised it in the first place.
But it is not an exclusively tethered device. Never was. It is a full on gaming PC. Just not one with the power to run newer games. But it’s plenty powerful enough to run all of the Team Beef ports. And besides playing those and lighter flat games I will enjoy playing around with a fully functional Linux OS on a VR headset.
I’m very out of the loop with VR stuff, but am i correct that currently VR on linux is a no go? and frame can not be ran from my linux gaming rig? last I’ve used any VR set was like 10 years ago with oculus rift and i could only play a few games on windows, or use the oculus store…
dreaming of playing all of the gta games in VR some day
No, VR works on Linux. One of the easier ways to get it running on something like Meta’s Quest 3 is Valve’s Steam Link. And older tethered headsets like Valve’s Index work as well.
And there are even open source solutions like ALVR to work with streaming headsets.
They’ve already talked about adding Android APK support, and some APKs have appeared on Steam.
Their goal seems to be for Meta Quest games to not need recompilation, just for the developer to add it to Steam
I’d like to point out that monitors are a streaming-only device also