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Oculus SDK Update Officially Supports Linux

Written by Michael Larabel in Hardware on 3 July 2013 at 12:16 PM EDT. 3 Comments

Version 0.2.3 of the Oculus SDK for the popular virtual reality (VR) headset was released yesterday. While we know they have been planning to officially support Linux, with this new v0.2.3 SDK the support is finally here.

The Oculus VR head-mounted display works under Linux with the Oculus C++ SDK 0.2.3 version it has official Linux support as tested under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

More details on the new Oculus SDK update can be found via their developer center.

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