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Category: Virtual Reality (VR)
My experiences of Valve's VR on Linux
As the proud and excited owner of a shiny new Valve Index kit to go with my almost-new all-AMD rig, I thought I’d outline the journey to getting it all working, exclusively on Linux.
FOSS OpenXR runtime 'Monado' gets Lighthouse positional tracking with libsurvive
Are you as excited as we are about the future of VR and AR (collectively known as XR)? It's hard not to be with the excellent progress going on with Monado, the open source OpenXR runtime.
Khronos Group open sources the OpenXR Conformance Test Suite for VR & AR
In another important step forwards for free and open standards, plus the future of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, the Khronos Group have open sourced their OpenXR testing suite.
Open source OpenXR runtime 'Monado' expands with multi-application support
Monado is the in-development OpenXR runtime for VR / AR on Linux and Collabora continue to make excellent progress on bringing it up to eventually support more platforms and features.
Valve moves on from OpenVR, goes all-in with OpenXR for SteamVR
Recently, Valve released a new SteamVR Beta that was aimed at developers with initial support for the OpenXR specification and it appears they're going all-in.
Valve adds OpenXR support to SteamVR in 'Developer Preview'
This is quite exciting for the future of Virtual Reality, as Valve as now properly given their backing to the OpenXR standard and added support into SteamVR.
Monado OpenXR runtime for Linux 0.2 out, continues advancing VR
Collabora have today announced the release of Monado 0.2, their open source OpenXR (VR / AR) runtime for Linux.
Half-Life: Alyx now available on Linux with Vulkan
Just like Valve said to us they would do so, Half-Life: Alyx is now available on Linux using the Vulkan graphics API.
xrdesktop continues expanding the Linux desktop into Virtual Reality with work sponsored by Valve
Today the hackers over at Collabora announced the release of xrdesktop 0.14, a Valve Software sponsored effort to bring Linux desktops into the VR world.
Valve drops support for SteamVR on macOS to focus on Linux & Windows
Today Valve made quite a big announcement about the future of VR, including an entire platform being dropped.
Open-source OpenXR runtime for Linux 'Monado' gets an improved compositor - runs Blender VR
Those crazy-smart folks over at Collabora have continued hacking away on Monado, a fully open source OpenXR (VR / AR standard) runtime for Linux. Now it's progressed quite far and it can run Blender VR.
It appears that Valve are preparing Half-Life: Alyx for Linux
Half-Life: Alyx, Valve's return to the Half-Life franchise in VR-only form released for Windows last month and it appears they're now preparing a Linux version.
New SteamVR Beta has some essential Half-Life: Alyx fixes for Linux
While Half-Life: Alyx isn't on Linux (yet—it's coming), Valve are still trying to get it working as good as possible with Steam Play Proton and a new update for SteamVR is up.
Half-Life: Alyx arrives today (Linux should come later) and CS:GO gets Alyx cosmetics
As Half-Life: Alyx arrives today, just a reminder that it should hopefully be coming to Linux in a post-release update. On top of that, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive got some fancy cosmetics for it.
Half-Life: Alyx support for Linux aiming to arrive with Vulkan support post-release
Today, Valve replied to our message asking about the situation with Half-Life: Alyx and Linux support and we got our answer.
Valve reveals SteamVR 1.10 with a brand new Dashboard
Valve continue rapidly iterating on SteamVR, as they attempt to push the limits of what VR can do both on the hardware and software side with SteamVR 1.10 out now.
Unity deprecating built-in XR (VR/AR etc) support for a new plugin system - Valve doing their own for SteamVR
While the state of Virtual/Mixed/Augmented Reality (XR) is constantly in flux and improving all the time, Unity have announced with Unity 2019.3 that their built-in XR support is being deprecated.
Mike Shapiro drops a cryptic message from G-Man for the upcoming Half-Life: Alyx
Half-Life: Alyx is set to release in March this year, and while we don't yet know what exactly is happening with Linux support it's still an exciting time.
SteamVR 1.9 is out, Linux VR users may want to opt into a Beta
Valve just recently put out the latest big new build of their SteamVR platform, with something to be aware of if you're on Linux.