Quoting: TheRiddickVR is not targeted at the average users except in the case of PS:VR, there is no expectation that people with mid range pc's will experience VR. Also VR only needs to render 1 image, those rendering 2 images have just not moved on.

1 image? what you talk about? it's stereoscopic and 90 stable frames per second. 4k in VR is just a dream atm. Maybe with foveated rendering. But actual VR HMD's doesnt have it.

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I tried with my linux with nvidia 375.26, and works! but at indirect mode, it's the lastest drivers i guess that works on direct mode. Setup room was not working on my computer... and i had a huge tracking lag(more than 1 second) it made me feel sick so fast. Yeah, i should update udev and drivers, but i had 10 minutes before leave to work. At back i will try everything!

I bought it on preorder, and belive me, this wait was really long.

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Valve developed a better and cheaper lighthouse and a new detection sensor for the headset, also they made a new controller. It's still in development but they will be more cheap than actual because headset will need less sensors and pieces and same for the new lighthouses.

The new lighthouses were announced some days ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1362&v=kMpQWSqQFK0 [External Link]

The new sensors:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/virtual-reality/htc-vive-sensor-cheaper/ [External Link]

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Games need the steamvr runtime to work with VR, but isn't relaesed for linux yet. Serious sam is ready to work, with steamvr for linux that only developers have. At the moment that valve release SteamVR for linux all users, the game automaticly will be ready to be played.

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That's illegal. Please, refrain from doing this. We do not want to cement our reputation as thieving beggars not capable of paying for Windows.

It's correct to pay for a product that you don't have any kind of guarrantee or support? why you should pay to play a game that maybe crash time to time and maybe won't load second level or get stuck in any place? I won't pay for any windows game to be used on wine.

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Quoting: CFWhitman

Quoting: bubexelI don't see it as "gimmick", for me gimmick is like Wii from nintendo, that your movements do something in the game. In real virtualty are you in game, you have a gun in your hand, you touch the things. Is like say, football is gimmick, have no sense.

I get the impression you are not a native English speaker, so I can understand that you might not be clear on exactly what a gimmick is. Or perhaps there is some other reason you don't have the same idea of the word "gimmick" as I do. The first definition from Dictionary.com is, "an ingenious or novel device, scheme, or stratagem, especially one designed to attract attention or increase appeal." A gimmick is basically anything that catches people's attention based on novelty and/or "the cool factor." It doesn't matter whether it has legitimate benefits or not (that is, the benefits of something being legitimate don't make it not a gimmick).

Really, though, I don't see your point. Virtual reality being more like reality doesn't make it any less of a gimmick. If anything, it makes it more of a gimmick since it's not actual reality. Also, we are not nearly at the level of virtual reality that you imply in your comment. You can't actually touch things in VR. In many cases, you are expected to use a controller. The most convincing VR environments give you controls that offer only indirect interaction with the environment like shooting a gun from a stationary position or controlling a car or another vehicle with physical controls very similar to the controls presented in the game.

Regardless, my point was that if someone puts on a VR headset and watches an environmental demo that imitates an exciting experience*, it grabs their attention. That makes it one hundred percent a gimmick. However, in the past most people have found that a game environment is more comfortably enjoyed through a monitor than "immersed" in virtual reality.

(* It should be noted that this technique and some elements of virtual reality have been around since the invention of the original three camera movie making process called Cinerama, originally demonstrated to the public in 1952, which ended up being too cumbersome to really catch on, though some movies like How the West Was Won were originally shot with this technique and can still be viewed that way (along with some of the VR demo movies) in one of the few remaining Cinerama theaters.)

For that reason i edited my comment, after check dictonary i found that i missunderstod the word gimmick. Btw, when you talk about past? you mean 90's VR? it's ridicolous compare it with 90's and more with 50's. I doubt they had any tracking or the led screens we have nowdays. It's just stupid. Btw, i have vive, and the time i play games i use to play on it. I almost not playing screen games anymore. I havent much time to play, that time i use to pay it on VR. Comparing those things from the "past" make me guess you didn't tested any of those modern VR head sets. (i'm not talking about mobile phone VR that is ridicolous).

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nvm.

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I will build my new home there! oh yeah

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eureka! finally here!

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Updating drivers, and updating client vulkan loader. Well, it's ready to deploy vr to linux and steamOS.

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