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Introducing SteamVR 2.15 (store.steampowered.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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[–] 13 points 6 months ago (15 children)

A bit unrelated, but does it support Linux?

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Yep, steam vr has for most of it's life cycle.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Tried it, and it runs, but everything looks wrong somehow

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The VR chat community has a good guide for getting things generally working for vr on Linux what you need is very dependant on your GPU and headset, https://ask.vrchat.com/t/vrchat-on-linux-the-definitive-guide/46949

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Thanks, will read that later. The headset is a valve index, and bazzite comes with pre-installed nvidia drivers and steam, so I assumed I wouldn't have to do anything special. And it does work out of the box, as I said, it just works strangely (see my other reply).

    I might just have to wait for the steam frame, I guess

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Is this before you enter a game? Or only in the game you tested?

    If it’s like that in the dashboard, then it might be a distro thing.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The dashboard itself looks like it's tilted away from me (or towards me? don't remember), but only with both eyes open. When I close any one eye, everything looks like it should be fine. It's really strange, I don't understand how that is even possible.

    The distro is bazzite, and the headset is the valve index, so I literally just clicked launch in the pre-installed steam

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Strange. That seems like it would be a good combination. I have friends who use Linux for VR regularly, and usually the issues described are around software compatibility. Not overall basic functionality.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    In my experience steamvr works but is unstable and has really bad performance compared to windows. (Constant stuttering even in lighter games like pistol whip) Motion smoothing doesn't work and it feels like there's some input delay which is not acceptable for vr.

    I've switched over to monado via envision, which loses the steamvr overlay and is very unpolished. (no camera passthrough and no boundary display, though both seem in development) Games play correctly with reasonable performance, which is what matters.

    I wouldn't recommend linux vr in general right now, if a friend wanted to try my headset I'd probably boot my windows partition. (Original htc vive with a 9070xt, so no excuse for steamvr's linux performance)

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I would, it runs great on my PC. Wivrn, AMD, quest 3

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Wireless headsets do have fewer issues on Linux, from what I've read. A lot of the stuff I'm missing like passthrough and boundaries are probably handled by the headset instead of the pc.

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