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I wanna have something I can tinker with and which works without some proprietary blob... I've heard Monado is pretty cool!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Get a used HTC Vive. The Pro variant even holds up reasonably well with modern headsets due to the higher resolution and the OLED screens. Both work with Monado.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This is more off-topic, but what exactly is Monado? On their website they talk about all kinds of crazy stuff, like implementing vision-pro-like spatial interfaces. That makes it sound like its an OS, but its not, as far as I can tell.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's an open source alternative to SteamVR. Basically a set of drivers and configuration utilities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Woah, that seems really cool! Do we have something like an overlay yet?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Right! I tried installing (building) this one before, but Debian 12 didn't have the right version of gtk4 so it wouldn't build. But thank you for sharing, I'll give it another try!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I strongly recommend checking out the Linux VR Adventures Wiki.

For an overlay, it's probaly the easiest to start with wlx-overlay-s .

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Google cardboard?