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 clay_pidgin | That's my state version, yes. | 23:29:22 |
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 elyviere | This search is from channel 25.11, so if you want to use the newer packages you'll have to upgrade to the 25.11 channel | 23:31:41 |
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| elyviere | Anyone here use SteamVR? I tried reading the wiki about it but I'm not really having any success.
https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/VR
Not sure if I should be using Monado in conjunction with SteamVR or if they're separate things and I don't get what I'm supposed to do with this bwrap.patch diff file when I don't even have a bwrap.patch file to begin with. | 12:00:39 |
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| elyviere | * Anyone here use SteamVR? I tried reading the wiki about it but I'm not really having any success.
https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/VR
Not sure if I should be using Monado in conjunction with SteamVR or if they're separate things and I also don't get what I'm supposed to do with this bwrap.patch diff file when I don't even have a bwrap.patch file to begin with. | 12:03:28 |
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 Gus | monado and steamvr are separate things | 18:49:46 |
| Gus | I'd give https://lvra.gitlab.io/ a look | 18:49:59 |
| Gus | * monado and steamvr are separate things, I recommend trying monado first and steamvr second | 18:50:45 |
| Gus | * you can use either monado or steamvr, I recommend trying monado first and steamvr second | 18:51:24 |
| Gus | * you can use either monado or steamvr (not both), I recommend trying monado first and steamvr second | 18:51:42 |
| Gus | * also see https://lvra.gitlab.io, it has a lot more information about Linux VR in general | 18:52:10 |
| Gus | * also see https://lvra.gitlab.io, it has a lot more information about linux VR in general | 18:52:16 |
| Gus | * also see https://lvra.gitlab.io | 18:56:28 |
 davidak | i think in 2019, SteamVR was working for me with a Valve Index. After that it did not work anymore. I played for half an hour today using a Meta Quest 3 via Steam Link App (Wifi), but i had video stutters and even the music stuttered sometimes, making it hard to play rythm games. I only played one game (Fruit Ninja 2). When i pause Steam Link, SteamVR and the game on the computer crashes. when i connect to the computer from Steam Link, i'm stuck in the loading world, the SteamVR home is not loading. i have to start the game manually on the computer. i don't want to play like that! I also tested ALVR and WiVRn, but they don't work.
so i would say: the status of VR on NixOS is still that it does not work. which is sad, because it did work reliably years ago. for PCVR, a different linux distro or even windows is a better choice | 19:30:28 |
| davidak | with ALVR i got this error: https://github.com/alvr-org/ALVR/issues/2792 | 19:35:35 |
| davidak | With WiVRn (dashboard) i get the error, that the server can not be startet, but it is already running in the background. | 19:38:42 |
| davidak | * i think in 2019, SteamVR was working for me with a Valve Index. After that it did stop working at some point. I did not use it often. Today i played for half an hour using a Meta Quest 3 via Steam Link App (Wifi), but i had video stutters and even the music stuttered sometimes, making it hard to play rythm games. I only played one game (Fruit Ninja 2). When i pause Steam Link, SteamVR and the game on the computer crashes. when i connect to the computer from Steam Link, i'm stuck in the loading world, the SteamVR home is not loading. i have to start the game manually on the computer. i don't want to play like that! I also tested ALVR and WiVRn, but they don't work.
so i would say: the status of VR on NixOS is still that it does not work. which is sad, because it did work reliably years ago. for PCVR, a different linux distro or even windows is a better choice | 19:40:14 |
| davidak | i suggest to install SteamVR in Steam and try out if it works. if you have a standalone headset (like Quest), try Steam Link first. it is the easiest solution. and please report back how it works. i'm also trying to get a working setup the last days | 19:42:17 |
| Gus | It's been a while since I've used wivrn, I'll give it another go now | 19:54:10 |
