Quoting: elmapulwe are already in this situation.

OSVR came to become an open source, vendor neutral standard.
SteamVR came to become an standard but its not open.
Oculus want things exclusive for then, they dont want make an interoperability standard, just be the standard by sheer marketshare.
Samsung Gear VR and Daydream i have no idea.

This always happens with new, emerging tech. A useful technical standard simply can't be written until there is some sort of a consensus on how the technology is supposed to work.

As lucinos wrote above, OpenXR is designed to sit between the application and the different vendor implementations, not to replace them. Hopefully OpenXR will serve to facilitate software development for a wide set of consumer VR hardware, without stifling continued innovation. Because innovation is sorely needed before I'm likely to get excited about VR.

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Quoting: chancho_zombieI don't know about if feral won't get a cent, they do sell linux keys, they have the linux icon unlike other stores that don't have it. I'll wait a couple of days to see if they update the page to display the linux icon.

They seem like a legit key reseller, but as far as I understand, key resellers sell pre-generated keys, and usually these keys register as Windows sales. In addition to a Linux icon, you probably need to check if they add Feral as a publisher. Currently they only list Deep Silver. Or you could just mail their support and ask.

Personally I like to make extra sure what little money I spend supports Linux gaming, but the choice is yours and I'm not telling you to boycott nuuvem.com or anything. Let's hope the game is worth the wait. :)

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Quoting: scaineNo idea how people find time (or patience) to rack up thousands of hours in games.

That is the question. My most played game on Steam happens to be Mad Max at ~90h and I cannot imagine investing much more than that on a single game. I'm sure some online games take a lot more time and dedication, which is probably one reason I never properly got into any of them.

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Quoting: EikeI liked Shadow of Mordor, but got bored over time with its Ubisoft formula.

I think it's just the unimaginative and tedious execution of the formula that did it for me. I loved Mad Max. I liked the early Batman Arkham games and AC IV Black Flag on my brother's Playstation, and even the positively moronic Just Cause 2 was very entertaining. These all build on the same core mechanic but do it better IMHO. I uninstalled SoM before getting even close to halfway in I think. I will try to pick it up again at some point, but I'm not looking forward to it. Maybe you need to be a Tolkien fan to appreciate this game?

Quoting: BeamboomSo I hope one can select gender as part of the main game (and not just a DLC skin) and stick to that gender throughout the game this time.

I doubt it. The teaser suggests you'll be playing the same main character.

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Oh another nonogram/picross game. Good, I like them and so does the wife. I don't see any novel twists or ideas in the video, but that's okay as long as the puzzles are well designed and the interface isn't idiotic.

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Quoting: Alm888What?.. And this was somehow standardized by Khronos?! So, now we have OS-specific functions as part of the standard or what? I'm confused, seriously confused!

The platforms are different, and Vulkan is an explicit API. Khronos provides API extensions for developers to handle these differences instead of abstracting them away. Makes sense to me.

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Quoting: chancho_zombieat nuuvem.com there is a carnival sale for south america for 41 reales (14 usd).

Shows $23.99 for me, but Feral wouldn't get a cent. I'm hoping they'll have a 50% off launch sale in their own store and Steam like they did with Hitman.

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Quoting: liamdaweWell, in my interview with Aspyr Media they did say this:

Its no secret Steam machines haven't taken off as well as the Linux community had hoped, but that doesn't prevent us from considering titles for the platform. It does however make us be more selective as to which titles we chose to port.

So it's not quite a priority any more.

True, but they also said this:

Q: Do you have any other Linux game ports planned currently?
A: We have several original IP's that we will be bringing to the platform in 2017!

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I'll be there to annoyingly beg for a launch discount. ;)

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Quoting: GuppyThen perhaps you could enlighten @camoceltic as to how it's done?

This answer [External Link] should give you (and him) an idea. Not entirely straight-forward, but should do the job. Someone should design a good gui for managing and redirecting pulseaudio sinks, but I guess those who actually need this stuff tend to use Jack.

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