Yup, this is huge. Wayland gaming is now a possibility. With Explicit Sync (needed for NVIDIA users) and VRR, there’s now no excuse to keep gaming in X11 in both DEs.
I just play VR on Linux, don’t really have many problems with it. Only small ones like sometimes SteamVR doesn’t recognize my headset the first time I start it so I need to restart it once.
Yeah I have an Oculus Rift S and the hardware support is pretty bad and I haven’t really gotten it to work. Obviously a vendor issue, and i don’t see meta open sourcing or releasing any drivers for linux anytime soon.
This is actually pretty huge, props to the GNOME developers for this.
Hopefully VR support will improve on linux, literally the only reason I keep a windows drive around is for vr and nothing more.
Yup, this is huge. Wayland gaming is now a possibility. With Explicit Sync (needed for NVIDIA users) and VRR, there’s now no excuse to keep gaming in X11 in both DEs.
it has been possible for quite some time now
I just play VR on Linux, don’t really have many problems with it. Only small ones like sometimes SteamVR doesn’t recognize my headset the first time I start it so I need to restart it once.
Yeah I have an Oculus Rift S and the hardware support is pretty bad and I haven’t really gotten it to work. Obviously a vendor issue, and i don’t see meta open sourcing or releasing any drivers for linux anytime soon.
Considering they specifically removed Linux support of the earlier headsets, I doubt it too.
Have a look at lvra.gitlab.io. It should be possible to get the rift s mostly working.
Which VR headset do you have?
Valve Index
This often happens to me on Windows with the Index so it might not even be a Linux specific issue