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Khronos announce 'OpenXR', their new standard for virtual reality and augmented reality

By Liam Dawe, 27 Feb 2017

OpenXR is the official name of the Khronos Group's new standard for virtual reality and augmented reality. Hopefully we will see Valve and other companies move towards this instead of their own implementations.

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Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter is now officially on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 23 Feb 2017

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Croteam being awesome as usual, as promised Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter is now officially on Linux.

Destinations & Dota VR Hub are now available on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 22 Feb 2017

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Valve have already put up Linux versions of both Destinations and The Dota VR Hub now that SteamVR is supported on Linux in beta.

SteamVR for Linux is now officially in Beta

By Liam Dawe, 21 Feb 2017

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Valve have put up SteamVR for Linux officially in Beta form and they are keen to stress that this is a development release.

Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter is now waiting on SteamVR being updated for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 16 Feb 2017

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Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter now supports VR on Linux using Vulkan, but Croteam is now waiting on Valve updating SteamVR to work on Linux.

Valve have three new VR games in development

By Liam Dawe, 10 Feb 2017

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It seems that Valve are going to continue their VR push as they have announced they have three more VR games in development.

Croteam say all Serious Sam games are on their way to Linux with Vulkan, also VR on Linux teaser from Valve

By Liam Dawe, 8 Feb 2017

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Croteam have put up a very nice blog post about all their games and it seems all of them are coming to Linux now and with Vulkan too.

SteamVR support for Linux looks like it's getting close

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jan 2017

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Thanks to a Twitter tip we have word that it looks as if SteamVR support for Linux might finally be close.

EGOSOFT planning two new space simulation games, 'X Rebirth VR Edition' using Vulkan and also X4

By Liam Dawe, 19 Dec 2016

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EGOSOFT, who became pretty Linux-friendly in recent times are working on two new space simulation games! X Rebirth VR Edition will use Vulkan and they are starting to plan X4.

Khronos are working on an open standard for VR, Valve will use it

By Liam Dawe, 6 Dec 2016

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Khronos announced today that they are working on a new open standard for VR and Valve have already said they expect replace parts of their OpenVR with it.

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Hardware maker 'Razer' has joined The Khronos Group to back open standards

By Liam Dawe, 1 Dec 2016

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This isn't exactly surprising, but Razer have joined The Khronos Group to back open standards. While not surprising, it's still awesome news.

Valve adds OSVR headset support to Steam

By Liam Dawe, 29 Nov 2016

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If you want to play games in VR on Steam, the list of compatible headsets just got bigger. OSVR is now a supported option.

'Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope' will support Linux as soon as possible

By Liam Dawe, 17 Oct 2016

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Good news Croteam and Serious Sam fans, as 'Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope' will come to Linux as soon as it's possible to do so.

HTC Vive VR demo on Linux used Kubuntu at SteamDevDays

By Liam Dawe, 14 Oct 2016

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Here's something awesome to see, the Valve demo of the HTC Vive on Linux was using Kubuntu, and we have some pictures.

Valve looking to contract experienced Mesa developers to work on the open source AMD driver for OpenVR

By Liam Dawe, 13 Oct 2016

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Valve are needing people to work on Mesa to prepare it for OpenVR, and they will be paying for the effort of course.

Steam VR will use Vulkan on Linux, demo shown off on Linux, new Vive controller being made

By Liam Dawe, 12 Oct 2016

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Well, news from SteamDevDays is starting to trickle into my feed and I will do my best to keep up with it all for you. First up is Steam VR which will finally support Linux and the big news is that it will use Vulkan to do it.

Looks like VR support for Linux will be shown off at SteamDevDays this week, about time

By Liam Dawe, 12 Oct 2016

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VR support for Linux has been lacking and the communication around it has been pretty damn poor by Valve and HTC, but it seems this is about to change at SteamDevDays.

VR Funhouse from Nvidia to be open sourced this summer

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jul 2016

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VR Funhouse is currently a Windows only advanced VR game, but the interesting thing is that Nvidia claim they will open source it.

A third of Valve now working on VR, still no Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jun 2016

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A Valve developer on reddit has talked a bit about Valve and VR, and he specifically stated that a third of Valve is now working on VR. A third of Valve, yet still no Linux support.

Razer announces the HDK2 VR headset, will support OSVR and SteamVR

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jun 2016

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The HDK2 from Razer will use their OSVR ecosystem - an open source ecosystem supporting multiple types of hardware brands.

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