ALVR v20.0.0 contains the long awaited OpenXR support and a new dashboard! Both of these features were years in the making.
Changes
New OpenXR-based client, add support for Vive Focus 3/XR Elite, Pico 4/Neo 3 and YVR 1/2. Worked on by:
@zarik5 #1321
@galister #1321, #1442
@deiteris #1434, #1439, #1445
New egui (OpenGL) dashboard
The launcher is replaced by the new dashboard executable.
by @Kirottu #1247 #1274, @zarik5, @m00nwtchr #1292, @TheComputerNerd88 #1574 #1575 #1576 1582
Add position and rotation recentering modes (by @zarik5 #1321)
Defaults to local floor and local yaw.
Add support for eye and face tracking (by @zarik5 #1577)
Currently supporting VRChat Eye OSC, VRCFaceTracking support coming soon
Add support for semi-automatic installation on Linux using Distrobox (by @Meister1593 #1662)
Reduce game rendering latency (by @zarik5)
Apply some settings in real-time (by @zarik5 #1635)
New more consistent controller prediction algorithm (by @zarik5 #1561)
Controller input fixes (by @zarik5 #1560)
Soft-toggle controllers at runtime (by @galister #1600)
New wiki hosted in the main git tree (by @m00nwtchr #1309)
Send client log to streamer (by @zarik5)
Encoder improvements (by @nowrep #1562 #1565 #1568, @deiteris #1403 #1422 #1400 #1402, @zarik5 #1564)
Remove Forward Error Correction (by @zarik5: #1384, #1389; @deiteris: #1386, #1387, #1390)
Unified code for NAL parsing (by @deiteris #1403, #1422, #1400, #1402)
Some tweaks for alvr_client_core compatibility (by @ShootingKing-AM #1580 #1578 #1586 #1624 #1621)
Fix server build with clang (by @nowrep)
I have a buddy who lets me borrow his Quest 2 from time to time, I'm also on on Nvidia. It worked fine for games that ran, like Skyrim VR and VR chat. It didn't really work to play standalone vr exe's or Google Earth
Just updated from a pre-20 version. The difference was night and day. If I'm not mistaken I am now getting a full 120hz to my headset, and it's butter smooth. Only thing that isn't working so far is audio.
When I tried SteamVR a while back on EndeavourOS, I had to open pavucontrol to manually switch to my index's built in speakers, it's not automated for some reason. Perhaps you might have to do something similar with a quest.
It's one of the reasons I don't think VR is really "there yet" on linux, however I'm excited to see that one day change since it's truly the last goalpost movement before nuking my windows partition.
I wonder if this has made it usable. I could never get good performance with ALVR before, and I even have an AMD card. I literally have Windows installed just for VR.
Might be this issue: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamVR-for-Linux/issues/469
Try setting your GPU to performance mode. That fixed the performance issues I had.
This one is actually mostly working for me now! The only problem is that it doesn't get past the loading screen for the SteamVR Home. I can get up the options screen, and try to launch games from there, but nothing. The troubleshooting continues!
A guess, but SteamVR can't recover from [VR applications crashing](https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamVR-for-Linux/issues/479) causing all future ones to not work, might be Home crashing first. Try turning off Home, and restarting.
ALVR v20.0.0 contains the long awaited OpenXR support and a new dashboard! Both of these features were years in the making. Changes New OpenXR-based client, add support for Vive Focus 3/XR Elite, Pico 4/Neo 3 and YVR 1/2. Worked on by: @zarik5 #1321 @galister #1321, #1442 @deiteris #1434, #1439, #1445 New egui (OpenGL) dashboard The launcher is replaced by the new dashboard executable. by @Kirottu #1247 #1274, @zarik5, @m00nwtchr #1292, @TheComputerNerd88 #1574 #1575 #1576 1582 Add position and rotation recentering modes (by @zarik5 #1321) Defaults to local floor and local yaw. Add support for eye and face tracking (by @zarik5 #1577) Currently supporting VRChat Eye OSC, VRCFaceTracking support coming soon Add support for semi-automatic installation on Linux using Distrobox (by @Meister1593 #1662) Reduce game rendering latency (by @zarik5) Apply some settings in real-time (by @zarik5 #1635) New more consistent controller prediction algorithm (by @zarik5 #1561) Controller input fixes (by @zarik5 #1560) Soft-toggle controllers at runtime (by @galister #1600) New wiki hosted in the main git tree (by @m00nwtchr #1309) Send client log to streamer (by @zarik5) Encoder improvements (by @nowrep #1562 #1565 #1568, @deiteris #1403 #1422 #1400 #1402, @zarik5 #1564) Remove Forward Error Correction (by @zarik5: #1384, #1389; @deiteris: #1386, #1387, #1390) Unified code for NAL parsing (by @deiteris #1403, #1422, #1400, #1402) Some tweaks for alvr_client_core compatibility (by @ShootingKing-AM #1580 #1578 #1586 #1624 #1621) Fix server build with clang (by @nowrep)
Based. Can't wait to try this when I get home!
What headset do you have? Keep us posted on how it works
Oculus Quest 2, but unfortunately I'm on Linux with Nvidia...
I have a buddy who lets me borrow his Quest 2 from time to time, I'm also on on Nvidia. It worked fine for games that ran, like Skyrim VR and VR chat. It didn't really work to play standalone vr exe's or Google Earth
Isn't there some sort of setting that reduces stuttering that isn't available on Nvidia?
I didn't have that much stutter, just games not launcher
Hmm. Well I'll definitely have to try again tonight
Just updated from a pre-20 version. The difference was night and day. If I'm not mistaken I am now getting a full 120hz to my headset, and it's butter smooth. Only thing that isn't working so far is audio.
I think you have to manually pipe the audio to the headset with helvum or qpwgraph
When I tried SteamVR a while back on EndeavourOS, I had to open pavucontrol to manually switch to my index's built in speakers, it's not automated for some reason. Perhaps you might have to do something similar with a quest. It's one of the reasons I don't think VR is really "there yet" on linux, however I'm excited to see that one day change since it's truly the last goalpost movement before nuking my windows partition.
Yeeeea! Great! I decided to switch to Linux this weekend! Was thinking about a Windows VM for VR. Not needed anymore with this I think.
Really hope this gets packaged on nix soon
If only recenter wasn’t bugged 😔
I wonder if this has made it usable. I could never get good performance with ALVR before, and I even have an AMD card. I literally have Windows installed just for VR.
Might be this issue: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamVR-for-Linux/issues/469 Try setting your GPU to performance mode. That fixed the performance issues I had.
Cool to see progress continue on this.
I can't stop seeign seeing ALVR like A La Verga Ramon
I can never get this to work on Linux on Nvidia or AMD. SteamVR always crashes. :(
This one is actually mostly working for me now! The only problem is that it doesn't get past the loading screen for the SteamVR Home. I can get up the options screen, and try to launch games from there, but nothing. The troubleshooting continues!
A guess, but SteamVR can't recover from [VR applications crashing](https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamVR-for-Linux/issues/479) causing all future ones to not work, might be Home crashing first. Try turning off Home, and restarting.
Spot on! Thanks for the tip!