Quoting: LoftyThanks for the info. Not to be lazy but i do sometimes wish Linux had more native apps with an actually decent GUI for doing cool stuff like this.

You know I had almost the same discussion 6 days ago on Reddit so here is a verbatim copy:

There is not really a way to do this even on e.g. Windows. This will always require tinkering with the game. Each is different, each uses different head tracking systems (if any at all and it doesn't require mapping to virtual gamepads or even mouse input) and almost no game ships with native SBS support.

When ReShade is involved you have a list of supported games but when it's missing you have to start tweaking and configuration your own config. That's worthy of an extended article in itself.

This is really exactly what VR solved (and even here it's YMMV) handling various devices and making data available via a well known and unified API. This is where Monado is a nice alternative but afair they don't support Vitures [yet].

Oh and don't get me started why there is no unified API for head tracking at all. Can probably thank Naturalsoft threatening everyone with a law suit for years while trying to protect sending 6 digits to a game for decades 🤢

tl;dr: some things users have to understand the basic concept. Too many moving parts.

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Avid Civ player here and I like that they tried something a little different adding some extra spice to the game. I will also adjust to the next change and I welcome it that they still tune the experience and boy I could not be happier: The Linux native build using Vulkan is rock stable for me. This is simply not a given.

Also: This happened with every iteration of the game. A very vocal "fan" group shunning it claiming the last version was peak.

Every.
Single.
Time.

😩

Remember this when Civ VIII eventually happens - that is if the review bombing doesn't break their necks. This is a perfectly fine Civ! It makes me click just one more turn, like all Civs before - just a little different, more beautiful and even with plenty of QoL improvements (heck that UI scaler is awesome)!

Is it expensive? Yes! It's catering to an absolute NICHE in a heavily saturated market and they keep improving it. IMHO review bombing because of the _costs_ should not be allowed at all.

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Quoting: LoftyWhen you say you use ReShade is this on Linux ? Why is is needed for this, i get that OpenTrack is needed for head movements. What is handling the 3D'ification of the XR glasses for games.

Sorry for the late reply. Must have missed the notification mail. There are various shaders for ReShade that split and shift the image for stereoscopic 3d. This requires access to z-depth buffer maps (and sometimes it picks up the wrong but this can be fine tuned per game).



In theory this could also be done with Vulkan but vkBasalt (which seems to be rather dead?) does not expose the depth maps at all so it's either native SBS or SBS with e.g. the Depth3D shader. ReShade requires DirectX so this works AFAIK(!) only for Windows games and this also works fine via Proton where the render pipeline with Wine/Proton looks like this: DirectX => ReShade => Vulkan.

The steps to get this running are exactly the same as on Windows. Install ReShade, fire the game up with the DLL overrides and configure the paths to the shader folder. There is a nifty script on Github that eases the process but it is really not required.

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Quoting: LoftyInteresting they work with Xreal glasses ? I thought they were just two screens made to look like one big one. How is it working as VR ?

Can't compare that to VR but I use my XR glasses a lot: https://makertube.net/w/tq6uNTgnFM2aEYXZjM5Wx1 [External Link] (Demo: Breezy Desktop now with virtual desktops 😎)

This also allows me to experience Stereoscopic 3D with almost any game thanks to ReShade. Add OpenTrack to the mix and I get a very VR-like experience without the motion sickness on top. Works best with native support, of course. Demo footage with Elite Dangerous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfR6vpO7UFs [External Link] (and unlike VR this even works "on foot" in ED)

YMMV.

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Using my Viture XR glasses a lot. Hope they'll eventually be supported by Monado as well. Until then I have Side-By-Side mode and ReShade with Depth3D 🤓

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VLC suffers from the same all the time 😩
GIMP iirc too 😩

And educating people on researching and understanding primary sources in the age of TikTok feels like roleplaying as Don Quijote 😩😩

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Fallout 4: Game of the Year Edition works like a charm. Played almost nothing else over the last 3 months 🤓

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Quoting: elmapulthey lose the opportunity to call it uwu

That's what I read on first glance too 🤷

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: ssj17vegetaI always wondered. What's in it for the end-user ? (Wayland)

Support for multiple monitors of varying refresh rates, HDR support, and eliminating round trips between the display server and the compositor because the compositor is the display server are the headline desirable features.

The first two only really came about during the long, long development of Wayland, admittedly, and the primary motivation wasn't about features, but just that everyone that was capable of doing anything with Xorg no longer wanted to do anything with Xorg.

Also stuff like streamable v4l devices (hello PipeWire :))

Yes, we totally want this!

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I'm not really into the loop but even I picked up on this: A shiton of YTbers… content creators… influencers, that never touched Linux before, started show-casing Linux. Think this starts to show.

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