Does the oculus rift s work in Ubuntu/other linux distros?

[NOScancel]

I'd like to mainly play beat saber on linux since I prefer it over windows, is there any official/unofficial way to do so?

[AnCapGamer]

I use my vive on Ubuntu via PROTON. I'd say use your oculus via steam vr through proton.

[frostwork]

I doubt oculus will work with proton, as there are no linux drivers for it (the games run via proton, but the vive/index drivers are native).
best thing you could try is openhmd, but no idea how far you get with it.

[frostwork]

https://github.com/ChristophHaag/SteamVR-OpenHMD

[DirtyCamper]

Stay away from Oculus. They once had a false promise to support linux.
I stil have an unsupported headset. And no specs to fix it myself.
Even if you are a windows user I would suggest to stay as far as possible from Oculus.
They have one goal in mind: extort as much money from the user by building a very thick walled garden around their store and device support.
Once you buy into it (gear vr), you will also notice that they are 100% USA centric on licenses and everything else. Outside of the USA you will be lucky if there are third party applications allowed to stream.
Put your money on open progress, invest in Valve technology, like the HTC vive or the Valve Index. There are chines buggers too that use Valve technology, but I think they lack driver support for linux.

@frostwork: that only support those that run on openhmd:
https://github.com/OpenHMD/OpenHMD/wiki/Support-List
There is no real support for oculus, nor for any other HMD with respect to position. I guess that rules out playing beat saber.

[NOScancel]

Originally posted by DirtyCamper:

Stay away from Oculus. They once had a false promise to support linux.
I stil have an unsupported headset. And no specs to fix it myself.
Even if you are a windows user I would suggest to stay as far as possible from Oculus.
They have one goal in mind: extort as much money from the user by building a very thick walled garden around their store and device support.
Once you buy into it (gear vr), you will also notice that they are 100% USA centric on licenses and everything else. Outside of the USA you will be lucky if there are third party applications allowed to stream.
Put your money on open progress, invest in Valve technology, like the HTC vive or the Valve Index. There are chines buggers too that use Valve technology, but I think they lack driver support for linux.

@frostwork: that only support those that run on openhmd:
https://github.com/OpenHMD/OpenHMD/wiki/Support-List
There is no real support for oculus, nor for any other HMD with respect to position. I guess that rules out playing beat saber.

I already have a rift s, yeah I know Facebook* not oculus has the goal of stealing info and money, but it's the best vr at 450€, the valve index is hella expensive and the vive cosmos is a VERY CRAP vr, the vive is old and other companies are either too much expensive or not good for a 5h daily use

[The Light]

Support is in the works with OpenHMD, I'm trying to figure out how to install, they're aren't really any instructions.
I'm sure all VR headset will work in Linux at some point, I'd like to figure out how to get going as I got an Occulus Rift that was given by a friend.
I just wish openhmd had better install instructions given I know it's a small development project.
I'm not hell bent on using VR.
The reality of VR is both the price and specs of all VR headset's are not consumer ready nor is the gpu market.
VR needs to power 2 4k displays, for a total of 8k resolution. The sensors need to be built completely into the headset and controls. Then you would also need a gpu that doesn't exist yet.
If I can get the Rift working on Linux though. that could be a nice beta headset to use tell the technology improves.

[NOScancel]

Originally posted by The Light:

Support is in the works with OpenHMD, I'm trying to figure out how to install, they're aren't really any instructions.
I'm sure all VR headset will work in Linux at some point, I'd like to figure out how to get going as I got an Occulus Rift that was given by a friend.
I just wish openhmd had better install instructions given I know it's a small development project.
I'm not hell bent on using VR.
The reality of VR is both the price and specs of all VR headset's are not consumer ready nor is the gpu market.
VR needs to power 2 4k displays, for a total of 8k resolution. The sensors need to be built completely into the headset and controls. Then you would also need a gpu that doesn't exist yet.
If I can get the Rift working on Linux though. that could be a nice beta headset to use tell the technology improves.

Thanks anyways, though now I play many more games, like PAVLOV and boneworks, and if I had to use Linux well, the performance would be probably worse

[NOScancel]

Originally posted by The Light:

Support is in the works with OpenHMD, I'm trying to figure out how to install, they're aren't really any instructions.
I'm sure all VR headset will work in Linux at some point, I'd like to figure out how to get going as I got an Occulus Rift that was given by a friend.
I just wish openhmd had better install instructions given I know it's a small development project.
I'm not hell bent on using VR.
The reality of VR is both the price and specs of all VR headset's are not consumer ready nor is the gpu market.
VR needs to power 2 4k displays, for a total of 8k resolution. The sensors need to be built completely into the headset and controls. Then you would also need a gpu that doesn't exist yet.
If I can get the Rift working on Linux though. that could be a nice beta headset to use tell the technology improves.

Also the "not consumer" thing it's not right, since you probably see people who can spend 2000$ on a pc, why can't they spend 1000$ for a pc and 350-200$ for a vr?

[AgentLoneStar007]

Any chance you got this working?

I got an Oculus Rift S a while back, and have been enjoying using it. I wish I could use it on Linux, but due to lack of support, I can't. Recently, I switched from an NVIDIA GPU to an AMD GPU. After doing so, it's pretty much broken everything on Windows. I can still use the headset, but it's buggy and really crappy. I know OpenHMD currently doesn't support position tracking, but is there something else I can use?

[NOScancel]

Originally posted by AgentLoneStar007:

Any chance you got this working?

I got an Oculus Rift S a while back, and have been enjoying using it. I wish I could use it on Linux, but due to lack of support, I can't. Recently, I switched from an NVIDIA GPU to an AMD GPU. After doing so, it's pretty much broken everything on Windows. I can still use the headset, but it's buggy and really crappy. I know OpenHMD currently doesn't support position tracking, but is there something else I can use?

I'm switching to arch linux with gnome today, so I'll look into it in the next few days. Although it's not really a solution, dual-booting windows is usually the answer since it's much easier and if you don't have too much time in your hands it's quicker and has less problems overall (besides vr games).

[grzegorz77]

I've never studied English, I can't speak or write, I read a little, I understand slow-spoken simple words (I learned from games).

But I can read that it does not work.
From the link that is in this topic.

For most of you, English is your native language and you don't want to read one page with comprehension.