Valve Publishes A SteamVR Developer Build For Linux

[jaxxed]

I guess I may have to sell my Oculus CV1 and get the Vive. Vive is suppose to have a hardware update in Spring. VR with Linux is important to me. Oculus does not care about VR with Linux. Their runtime use to work on Linux (back around 0.5) but not anymore.

Any idea how the OSVR stuff is doing in steam?

[zboson]

I guess I may have to sell my Oculus CV1 and get the Vive. Vive is suppose to have a hardware update in Spring. VR with Linux is important to me. Oculus does not care about VR with Linux. Their runtime use to work on Linux (back around 0.5) but not anymore.

[gsedej]

Khronos has not yet released the extensions to the public.

Dave.

What did you mean by that? What extensions?

edit: oh, the other article... http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=ne...kan-Comparison

[schmidtbag]

Finally, though kind of annoying that Vulkan is required (I wouldn't care if RADV supported GCN GPUs that aren't yet supported by amdgpu-pro...)

As far as I'm concerned, their Windows version is still beta-quality, so I'm not all that concerned about the stability in Linux.

[LeJimster]

So Vulkan is a requirement for SteamVR eh? Awesome.. Can't wait to see the performance improvements on Radv and more Vulkan titles this year.

[gutigone]

A sponsor huh? Be sure to note who the sponsor is, it's not a good idea to hide them. People need to know if it's a company (a little thing called ethics).

[anth]

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

Well, clearly Croteam's announcement then Valve's a few days later are related. It is GDC I'm wondering about.

Khronos will be there. Maybe the required Vulkan extensions will get announced.

[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!
"There are those who said this day would never come. What are they to say now?" ~Prophet of Truth

[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.

[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.