The Talos Principle VR Launches With Linux Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: The Talos Principle VR Launches With Linux Support

Croteam has just released The Talos Principle VR, the virtual reality edition of their award-winning The Talos Principle puzzle game. SteamOS/Linux with the HTC Vive is supported alongside Windows...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Talos-Principle-VR-Launched

[r1348]

FYI owners of the original edition should get a 25% discount on VR, but it's broken right now. Should be fixed shortly.

[Almindor]

What about OSVR?

[schmidtbag]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the first VR-compatible game supported on Linux+Steam?

What about OSVR?

Product page suggests OSVR isn't supported; only Vive and Oculus. Note that the Steam store does mention support for OSVR, so if it isn't listed in a game, it probably won't work (at least not completely). This game seems to depend on the hand controllers, which is probably why OSVR isn't supported. The HMD ought to work fine, though.

[Almindor]

Well OSVR has steamVR compatibility so maybe it might work. I wonder if you could use it with a normal mouse + keyboard combo

[cusa123]

It would be interesting to see if someone could run some windows hmd on linux.

[coder]

It would be interesting to see if someone could run some windows hmd on linux.

This needs to happen, but it'll probably take a lot of effort to get it working even close to as well as Windows. They use inside-out tracking with (I think) only two HMD-mounted cameras. Assume that Microsoft had no less than a team of world-class computer vision & SLAM experts working full-time for a couple years on their inside-out tracking.

So, take the best open source SLAM engine and you're probably only half way there. And don't forget that every millisecond counts.

A good half-way solution would probably be to require some camera calibration posters be hung in your play space, rather than trying to use arbitrary room clutter as a HMD tracking reference.

[beniwtv]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the first VR-compatible game supported on Linux+Steam?

Nope it isn't - check here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/25082...7959064016658/

[schmidtbag]

Nope it isn't - check here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/25082...7959064016658/

Oh cool, I had no idea about this list. Thanks!

[haagch]

It would be interesting to see if someone could run some windows hmd on linux.

OpenHMD has one borrowed from VLC (?) https://twitter.com/OpenHMD/status/920574393520181249
For a start they'll probably just get rotation via IMU and maybe measure the distortion.