I disagree. Holding your hands like this is just a good way to not stand still.

Using this kind of open stance, from my experience, makes presenting easier and makes me more confident.

But yes, presenting peeps from BigEvilCo make it way worse.

It would be so interesting to see a company thrive, which actually keeps their initial motivations intact.

Sad to see people fall for the greedy ways of pleasing investors and chasing trends…
Would be very interesting to have an actual example of a nice megaco (if that is even possible)

What they actually say in the video is that they are open to developers making software for their platform.
They pretend like they are the nice people, by providing decent development tools, with which to create.

Open to everything, except openness

That’s the best type of social (media)

Ok that is fair. I commented on someone elses comment here that they should try out PeerTube, as that is a decentralized option with all the benefits of the fediverse.

Oh they totally will try. Microsoft is dum enough to try it, just like they are dum enough to try to train massive LLMs, and damn, they not be showin’ successes til now :)

I remember, I think I also saw that video by that one Linux/windows tech guy

hey, I know this funi! I’ve seen this guy on 196 before!

They cannot do that. The foss community is too strong to fail, many people use GNU/Linux specifically because it’s not owned by EvilCo™ and EvilHoldings™.

Yes

naw, have your tried Envision? Just a few months ago I thought the same as you, but ever since I tried Envision, I have not opened SteamVR at all.

Envision (a foss VR client) works GREAT for VR on linux. In fact, I also have an index, so I can tell you that yes, it works very well.

I stumbled across this project via the lvra website, which is an amazing forum site about using your VR devices on GNU/Linux. I highly, highly recommend going over there and having a look around. It features guides to many common questions and helped me a ton.

Envision is really just an interface for monado, which does all the complex VR stuff like tracking and screen distortion.

Envision let’s you import the VR calibration from SteamVR right into Monados format. It uses a super small part of SteamVR in the background to perform the lighthouse tracking. But it’s very lightweight, especially when compared to SteamVR and Oculus’s VR interface.
Envision takes no time at all to boot up, it also lets you try out the “survive” lighthouse tracker, which is completely FOSS and doesn’t rely on SteamVR at all besides the calibration data (the tracking quality is noticably worse though and the IPD seems to be off, but give it a try!)

There are two hurtles to get through tho:

1. Monado doesn’t come with a “room boundary” system. You have to either move very little, or get yourself another solution for displaying your rooms bounds. Maybe try this one, haven’t tested it yyet though.
2. Monado does not come with its own “steam vr dashboard”. You have to bring your own. I recommend Wlx-Overlay-S as it works great for PC navigation and allows for very fast playspace-moving and resetting. It also allows for stuff like locking certain windows into your environment, so please give it a try, even if you stick with SteamVR. Envision allows for automatic launching of apps on startup, so I launch wlxoverlay.

If you have any questions about it, there is a Discord server for linux-specific-vr stuff over on the lvra website.

TLDR: If you didn’t read any of this, just go to this page and have a look at Envision. There are all sorts of cool linux-specific VR things on there. Their discord helped me lots

Edit: You can also ask me if I want

Could you maybe name some distros and DEs which have this feature pre-built?

I have used mint, Debian and Fedora and none of them seem to have this kind of feature.

Hmm this looks very interesting. I like the immediate without NFTs and Bitcoin thingy.

It doesn’t seem to support speech communication and VR though, which is kinda the whole point for me. Very promising though.

the tiktok part was really interesting. thank you for sharing!

ok fair u got me there. Lutris really is a solution, but it still feels like some game-specific launcher you gotta run to run normal programs.

i was mostly complaining about the double click thing.

woah WOAH HEY THERE this seems SUPER useful!!!

I will totally check this out!

I feel like that would compare two very different types of social media:

• Consumption oriented: Platforms which mainly tailor to consumers, like Tiktok, Pinterest, Instagram and Youtube.
• Collaboration oriented: Platforms where engagement with the content and discussions are encouraged, like Lemmy and Mostodon and their proprietary equivalents.

It’s very sad to see general social media platforms go that route. Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are unusable without an account.

I’m using an index. You can use Envision, as it supports wireless headsets and gives you a nice interface to set things up.

That is also what I use, as Envision also has support for cabled headsets.

In general, the lvra website is a great source for cool foss VR stuff on linux.