I am mulling over this as my project for the long weekend.

Currently my SteamVR won’t talk to ALVR. But I do have ALVR on my Quest 3. I am thinking that if I can just get SteamVR to talk to ALVR, I’ll be set.

I really want to get it working. I really want to get SkyrimVR as well with some good mods. Half Life Alyx is too scary for me :(. I hate having to boot up Win10 to play VR. Knowing there’s a bajillion daemons running around and sucking up my data, giving it to Microsoft only to regurgitate it to force feed me ads, makes me sick.

Anyway, my question is… Am I insane? Has anyone actually managed to get PCVR working on linux or is it a completely unfeasible project that I should drop now before I wind up with PTSD?

Thank you in advance!

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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    11 months ago

    I did manage to get ALVR working. Can’t tell you what’s all needed. But sometimes you just have to find the right version. And SteamVR needs access to some devices. it should ask for root permissions on first run.

    Other things to play around with are the video codecs. Or using the flatpak version or a normal system install of Steam.

    I don’t have my PC at the moment, so I couldn’t give you specifics. But it definitely worked with my Quest 1.