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

hey woah there why are you using evil speech now, did I say something wrong? The only reason I mentioned china was cuz I wanted to differentiate between cool foss community driven thing and evil cooperate state driven thing.
I wasn’t trying to make china seem bad, it just was the case that they have some influence. To me, it’s really just the propaganda part and potential censorship, but that’s it.

The thing with Lemmy I do understand. Then again, there are other instances which are have less or even no censorship.

If I said something else which made you mad, please tell me what it was. I’m not the best with picking up on this stuff.

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.

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.

I actually never heard of this saying, but I just looked up. Woah, that’s really a phrase they use internally, hm? Crazy.

And it does accurately describe what they try to do here. It can’t really work like that, since many people use GNU/Linux specifically because it’s not owned by EvilCo™. But they could probably take over some part of the server-hosting business like this. And that is a scary thought.

Imagine, they could make it super easy to deploy things by incoperating premade docker containers into their UI thingy. That’s - like - real bad.

Yeah that’s a fair point. The I use it because others do argument is very strong, and I’m assuming that is also why most people are still using Facebook and Twitter.

I have also seen some German Youtubers say, that they’d like to join Mastodon, but that the whole “instance” thing is too confusing to get behind, not understand that you just pick one with your interests, and off you go.

The closest thing to Youtube would probably be PeerTube. It feels a bit like how Youtube used to be, with some randos just making the content they want to.

Have a very similar experience with Mastodon-like platforms. These feel more like announcement-sites rather than actual social media platforms.

How do you use Mastodon?

I have tried to engage with it more multiple times, but I tend to not get anywhere. Is it like instagram, where you gotta subscribe to some hashtags?