ALVR Linux needs to be First Party

This software is used mostly by Linux users trying to get their quest 2 and other headsets to connect to their PC, the fact that Linux support is in beta cannot be. It should be a first party.

For Windows and MacOS, people will always default to Virtual Desktop or Oculus' air, as they've much easier installation and/or are the default options. Don't compete with them, its a waste of time

Oct 04 '23 18:10 peq42

Ask Valve to support the required APIs 🤷‍♂️ It's really the only thing missing(other than audio)

Oct 04 '23 19:10 Vixea

Ask Valve to support the required APIs 🤷‍♂️ It's really the only thing missing(other than audio)

well the audio has been missing for a while. Looking through google, thats been an issue for at least a year

Oct 04 '23 20:10 peq42

Audio can be done using scripts and there has been some work done for it

Oct 04 '23 20:10 Vixea

I'm the main maintainer. I work on ALVR mainly as my day job and we use Windows. Everything else is nice but a bonus.

As Vixea said, the main obstacle is SteamVR literally not supporting Linux direct mode drivers, and we have to rely on a imperfect hack. As for audio, there are people working on it, albeit with time availability issues.

Oct 05 '23 01:10 zmerp

Did we raise an issue about that on the SteamVR for Linux page? Do they still develop that? As the repo seems unmaintained for years. Did they move it?

Oct 19 '23 19:10 ShalokShalom

It's just an issue repository doesn't really need to be maintained, and yes they know about it no issue needed other than maybe to show it's importance to users, it's not a priority for them

Oct 19 '23 20:10 Vixea

And did we raise an issue about the direct mode drivers?

Oct 20 '23 10:10 ShalokShalom

No one yet I don't really care to anyway

Oct 20 '23 10:10 Vixea

Here's the issue https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamVR-for-Linux/issues/409

Oct 26 '23 20:10 Vixea

a new major version of steamVR dropped, seems to have fixed at least a couple of issues with Linux.

Does it change anything for this project?

Oct 26 '23 21:10 peq42

Nope it's completely on Valve's side other than the library bits but it's also half Valve's problem as it's completely broken on native

Oct 26 '23 22:10 Vixea

This issue is stale because it has been open 30 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 5 days.

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