11-23-2023 05:02 PM
Are there any plans to add support for Linux? At the moment, SteamVR has Full Support for Linux, but Oculus does not.
01-14-2024 07:08 PM
You will get silence. Meta doesn't acknowledge their liabilities in this regard.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game
Scroll down. Note Tux is prominently displayed. There's a promise that the successor in interest has an obligation to. Support of their tethered products on Linux and OSX, something that they gleefully reneged on. At one point there was an SDK you could download...now it's gone.
Right now, there's a mostly stable semi-experimental driver for the Rift in OpenHMD that is begging to be brought over into MonadoXR and there's pretty stable support for Rift S on the Headset parts in MonadoXR right now. I think the controllers are a bit up in the air...but I've been tempted to score a used unit off of eBay just to finish that out. I strongly suspect that they're not BT Classic devices but rather LE devices- which is why they've had fits pairing up to them. Data rates don't need to be more than 115kbps and probably a lot less and that would let them do that.
If you're listening, Meta...you've an obligation there. It can be fulfilled in pretty much only one way now...but you can still do that one. You no longer care about tethered systems. Quest3 and QuestPro are what you're spending money on. If we were to get resources to let someone make new Rift/RiftS cabling and were to get the technical information sufficient to produce working drivers for your discarded products, we'd consider the obligation repaid to us. You owe us. You bought Oculus and they made their kickstarter based off of that promise and wouldn't have been there for Mark Z. to have BOUGHT in the first place. Pay that debt back, guys. Handing us discards like an unlock to the Go with no real ways to actually make a LegacyOS type build for it is an EMPTY gesture and means so very little. Give us the Rift. Give us the Rift S.
It'll repay you in the end.