Munch VR has released an experimental Linux version, munch your way up the food chain
Munch VR, a casual VR gamed aimed at a wide audience now has an experimental version which supports Linux.
Category: Virtual Reality (VR)
New NVIDIA Vulkan beta driver released, fixing SteamVR problems
NVIDIA have released another beta of their Vulkan driver, which includes a fix for a major problem with SteamVR.
LG are making a VR headset, to be shown off at Valve's GDC booth
And we have another VR HMD contender in the rings folks. LG have announced they will be showing off their own VR HMD at GDC with Valve.
Khronos announce 'OpenXR', their new standard for virtual reality and augmented reality
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.
Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter is now officially on Linux
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Hardware maker 'Razer' has joined The Khronos Group to back open standards
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.