So Sony is out of the PC market and the VR market, and presumably doubling down on the console. But it seems like more gears are still shifting in this makeover.

VGC: Sony seemingly closes the door on PlayStation VR as it sells more than 40 VR patents to Meta https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sony-seemingly-closes-the-door-on-playstation-vr-as-it-sells-more-than-40-vr-patents-to-meta/ #Sony #PlayStation #VR #Meta

I recently improved my setup for #VR gaming on #Linux with [WiVRn](https://github.com/WiVRn/WiVRn). I now get about 30ms less latency overall in games like #vrchat and #beatsaber streaming over usb from my pc to my Quest 3, by using H.264+vaapi.

I could have been using H.264 from the start if I had done a quick search but instead I just assumed the newer the encoder, the better the encodyness and went with H.265. Silly me.

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wivrn latency info overlay while running vrchat

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me in vrchat

"The Steam Frame is the best VR headset I've ever used. But despite all the problems it solves, I fear it may not solve the biggest problem of all: VR gaming itself."

GameSpot: Steam Frame Is VR Gaming’s Swan Song Moment https://www.gamespot.com/videos/steam-frame-is-vr-gamings-swan-song-moment/ @Gamespot #Steam #SteamFrame #VR

The Steam Frame is released. At a shockingly high price range, but that's RAM for you in these post-ai days.

This means improvement on Linux VR in general with all the latest patches. The home-room is updated, the menus all looking fancy and new. Even if you got an old Vive.

Even more exciting than that, Steam have agreed to serve my place in the wait-queue so one might even arrive here in the coming weeks and thank goodnes it's after payday. If it was a week ago I might have had to give up my place.

Sounds like the Alyx updates intend for that game to run on the machine stand-alone, which would be nice. Able to take that big old complex game on the road to demo at parties.

Anyway. I'm poor again and dunno how long the wait for the package will be, but looking forward to seeing it.

God I hope it's not shit and rescues us from the Facebook-dominated market since they bought Oculus.

#vr #linux

The Steam Frame arrived.

Not a great experience so far really.

The Wifi-dongle that brings 6G streaming doesn't currently work on Linux V6 kernels. Which is what Debian has.

Apparently Windows is the only thing fully supported really. Internet doesn't even sound that optimistic about the Steam Machine though it ought to at least work once I have one of them.

Streaming from the linux box is mostly unsuccessful during this lunch break here. Slow to start and timing out, slow to get going. Presumably partly coz only 5G wifi.

Controllers feel light and shoddy, aren't tracked particularly well. Pistol Whip scores well down due to the dropping frames and the terrible tracking of the aim.

Overall seems worse than the Vive at 30 minutes or so of playing with it.

Hope they improve it I guess, and streaming might work better once there's a machine with a V7 linux kernel compatible with this wifi dongle in the house.

Fairly comfortable to wear, though the foam attached by magnets comes off too easily as you don or remove the headset.

Sadly, this is not currently a machine which beats Facebook's Quest3 at all.

Have tried to install Alyx and Doom VR on it directly. Can't tell how that goes till after work now really.

#steamFrame #vr