Valve Publishes A SteamVR Developer Build For Linux

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Valve Publishes A SteamVR Developer Build For Linux

Valve has begun rolling out their SteamVR Linux support by announcing today a beta/developer build of their VR support for Linux...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Valve-SteamVR-Linux-Beta

[boxie]

Linux certainly has come a long way +1 to all the companies invested in making it happen

[linuxjacques]

Great news! I'm looking forward to those linux Vive tests.

[d2kx]

@Michael:

Valve is now providing a special radv Vulkan driver with VR extensions in their updated repo: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamVR-for-Linux

[FireBurn]

@Michael:

Valve is now providing a special radv Vulkan driver with VR extensions in their updated repo: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamVR-for-Linux

Grr they're using github for goodness sake, could they not put the code up as well as the binary?

I checked their mesa tree too and it's very old

[chimpy]

Michael that's awesome. To think that in the near future you might have an AMD Ryzen + AMD Vega + HTC Vive review in the works; would be a great review.

[airlied]

Grr they're using github for goodness sake, could they not put the code up as well as the binary?

I checked their mesa tree too and it's very old

Khronos has not yet released the extensions to the public.

Dave.

[anth]

I wonder if it is just coincidence that this and the announcement from Croteam both came shortly before GDC which Valve have used in the past for some major announcements.

[eydee]

I wonder if it is just coincidence that this and the announcement from Croteam both came shortly before GDC which Valve have used in the past for some major announcements.

No coincidence. Croteam had to wait for Valve. Now that Valve woke up, Croteam could announce their thing as well.

[ethana2]

My Dan A4 SFX is on the way from Germany, I can't wait to cram a Ryzen R7 1700 and a Vega in it and Vive it up on Free gpu drivers!
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