Mesa's Zink Driver Now Supports OpenGL VR Extensions

[blackiwid]

1. occulus quest is native linux, its been outselling PS5s and xboxs.

Ok so you take the retarded version of linux as if Android would be the Linux OS not just the same kernel, but whatever for you GNU/Linux support of VR sucks.

And how much games get sold for PS5 and how much for VR? It's maybe not niche for companies designing rooms and stuff like that but I mean for gamers and consumers.

And the worse it is when so much get sold and you still can't use it for vr movies in linux (GNU/Linux) but for fucks sake believe whatever you want, let's just agree to disagree... no interest in a 20 comment dick measuring contest.

[haagch]

Even getting monado installed in arch Linux a newer version is a pain in the ass,

Please leave a comment on the monado-git AUR package if something doesn't work.

and most windows mixed Reality controllers are not supported

WIP from thaytan is on this branch https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/thayt...ller-tracking/

The reason it's taking so long is simple: Many people say how much they want open source drivers but very few people are funding it.

not mo mention other Distros...

Some people made a tool called envision to try to make it easier on modern distributions. Check out https://lvra.gitlab.io/

[blackiwid]

The reason it's taking so long is simple: Many people say how much they want open source drivers but very few people are funding it.

Thanks for the supportive comment, had some contacts on an IRC about stuff, and I should maybe be more specific, I don't say it's your fault at all, it's mostly the vendors it would be there job to release all the specs and drivers in a ideal world, but it's less about upstream but more about A distributions, including graphic drivers sometimes you have to activate a vulkan driver or the correct one is not very user friendly, and the application developer and partially maybe even Valve, their proton could be so good that all vr windows software works under Linux... or heck Valve themself could dev a full VR Video player that is natively there for Linux and Windows, they kind of did that, but that thing is not in a usable state more a proof of concept or demo.

It was more a state on VR in general, even Windows VR sucks currently, either it's expensive, you need a big room setup or it's convenient than you have to use Facebook a company that I don't trust with my data, and want to give access to cameras in my room.

I just think currently and hopefully that is better in 1 year or so, the out of the box support of VR is a bit lacking, and parts of it maybe even longer, as long as there is no VR video player for VR Videos, it's not a good user experience, again not necessarily the fault of your upstream. That said if VR would have been in this state 3 years ago maybe also more user software would exist, but who knows.

I think the industry itself is in it's infancy, especially on the movie site, very few people have such cameras and they are probably very big and not very easy to use in a good way...

On top of that my Stupid headset headband broke and "repaired" it already 5 times with instant glue but of course that does not hold forever... and my AMD GPU can't play videos that are more than 6k. rx 5600xt / ryzen 2700x, again not your fault, but it's not a mature product even in windows.

[blackiwid]

And I had very hard problems to get it running in the end somehow my previous card hd 6870 or something alike just did give some I think vulcan errors or something, after switching to my rx 5600 that got fixed. so most of my problems to got it even running at all came from that hardware combination except there is nowhere a warning that you need a certain graphic card generation

[mSparks]

The reason it's taking so long is simple: Many people say how much they want open source drivers but very few people are funding it.

Its more than "just" funding, look how much Redhat has ploughed into wayland - 10s if not 100s of millions of USD over the past 15 years and its going nowhere.

whilst you guys are cracking through some of the hardest problems in comp sci.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dwJLUOj27eI

"Just wow"

Misallocation of funds for sure. But my impression is there is still a lot of doubt surrounding VR generally, and while the underlying tech today has already proven itself - people just don't know it (that, and decent feature complete headsets are still a complete nightmare to get hold of)