My current requirements for a vr headset now: Not Meta/Facebook Ability to work with Steam VR Zero-setup (inside out tracking)
Yup, give me one of those for <$500 that works on Linux and I’ll probably get it. Otherwise, I’m happy to wait.
I mean, we are on Lemmy, I figured limux was implied
I wish, there are still apparently a handful of holdouts. :)
Windows fun laptop + Linux server laptop ftw
Psst, Linux is fun too. 😘
Linux is fun until you run into random issues. I don’t mess around with my fun laptop so I don’t hit any Windows issues. If I were on Linux I’d have to know more about my system. Messing around with compatibility, configs, and Libre Software philosophies causing intentional problems is for my Nix server setup only lol
And my wife got a Meta Quest 2 headset that does neither of those. Ugh.
ALVR works pretty well. Not zero setup but it’s there. 🤷♂️
I tried it a year ago and couldn’t get it to work at all. The install process was so destructive that I had to factory reset the headset afterwards.
I’d try again, but I’m not sure I want to put that kind of pressure on my marriage.
Woah, not sure what you ran into, but my install process was to check the box that I was a developer and side load the adb package. I’ve been streaming a dozen games from my EndeavourOS PC for a few weeks now with no issues.
Anecdotal of course, clearly your milage has varied.
It was a while ago, but I think it stopped operating normally for my wife’s account, and I had issues adding myself as a second user (not the device owner) with dev access.
The nonsense where I had to get permission from meta to take control of my own hardware was utterly absurd. It was 1000x harder than tapping a button 8 times.
Not defending Meta at all, but I think I just had to check a box on their developer portal signed in to my account?
Anyway, I’m right there with you on picking up whatever valve has cooked up as soon as they announce something!
To check that box, you first need to sign up to the developer portal and pair the headset to your account. It wasn’t even my headset. I just wanted to connect it to Steam on my PC.
In future, I would be looking into something that behaves more like a peripheral device. It should be no harder to connect than a gamepad.
If they still phone home to Facebook, no thanks.
“We’re being so generous by allowing other hardware manufacturers to buy into our closed walled-garden data mining system that could boot their company out of the market at a moments notice!”
EEE
So it the plan to go with the Google or Microsoft’s model?
Will third parties be able to customize whatever they want, like with Android, or is the user experience going to be strictly controlled, like with Windows?
It’s Facebook… They’re 100% going the Windows route so that you can’t turn off all of the data collection that will go straight to them.
That’s what I would assume, but I guess the question is, has anyone here read through the licensing stuff?
The OS is the worst part of the Quest line. The hardware is pretty cool but software completely removes it from consideration for me.
This is just a play because Google is releasing Android XR soon
hmm
Calling Meta “Facebook” tells me all I need to know about the engagement that random opinion blog will attract.
They’re right tho. I call Meta Facebook like I call X Twitter. A name change can’t wash away shit lmao
