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Ideal hardware for Unity + Oculus?
Are there any graphics boards / configurations that work "best" when using Unity as development environment and targeting DK2 (or whatever better dev kit might become available until late summer 2015)...
As for your question whether linux is better for unity: Thanks to oculus and the unity developers, it isn't.
There never was oculus rift unity integration for 32 bit on linux, only 64 bit. Most people run 64 bit linux, but not all unity developers got the memo and still released only a 32 bit build. Which obviously never worked.
With the oculus rift unity integration accompanying the 0.5.0.1 SDK they completely dropped the linux plugin. I asked about it, but oculus being oculus they did not reply at all: viewtopic.php?f=26&t=21712&p=257891#p257891
But as this video (https://youtu.be/fmu6rzYDt1w?t=3795) shows, there is a unity 5 beta supposed to come that has "built in support". But of course they did not say whether this will come with linux support.
And of course, the unity editor has no linux version. If you look in their feedback system and sort by "most voted" you can see how it is by far the most voted for feature of all time and I don't think unity has even acknowledged any of this in the last 4.5 years this has been open for: http://feedback.unity3d.com/forums/unit ... most_voted. It runs with wine, but not perfect.
That should answer your question...
There never was oculus rift unity integration for 32 bit on linux, only 64 bit. Most people run 64 bit linux, but not all unity developers got the memo and still released only a 32 bit build. Which obviously never worked.
With the oculus rift unity integration accompanying the 0.5.0.1 SDK they completely dropped the linux plugin. I asked about it, but oculus being oculus they did not reply at all: viewtopic.php?f=26&t=21712&p=257891#p257891
But as this video (https://youtu.be/fmu6rzYDt1w?t=3795) shows, there is a unity 5 beta supposed to come that has "built in support". But of course they did not say whether this will come with linux support.
And of course, the unity editor has no linux version. If you look in their feedback system and sort by "most voted" you can see how it is by far the most voted for feature of all time and I don't think unity has even acknowledged any of this in the last 4.5 years this has been open for: http://feedback.unity3d.com/forums/unit ... most_voted. It runs with wine, but not perfect.
That should answer your question...