hahaha FML it was the fucking firewall on my desktop, it was denying steam link streaming connections. Added an allow rule for it and boom suddenly SteamVR is like oh behold a headset do u want to do a virtual reality
Even when I try to forget about the day job and play some videogames, cursed networking problems follow me around like an angry little leprechaun
ok well Elite Dangerous launches, but I think I need to disable the eye tracking or foveated rendering or whatever, because it's fine as long as I hold my eyes perfectly still, if I move them the rendering glitches out quite hard
Well, ED in VR on linux works... okay. With eye tracking disabled it's mostly fine. Definitely some iffy link stability on the streaming, it occasionally freezes for a bit while it figures things out. Usable, but needs work. I think I read somewhere that there's some wifi power management buttons I should push to help with that, and allegedly there's also community patches for VR that do... something, not sure yet.
Still, even with a little jank, it's just as fun as I remember doing cargo runs in a Type 9 Heavy. The cockpit has a 180 degree view, and my goodness it's a cool sight when you pull into spacedock in the giant sky truck.
Nov 9, 2026, 3:54 AM@danderson Excellent achievement! I gave up on VR a few years ago while still running ED on Windows, it was excellent in combat but for everything else ... I wanted to be able to keep an eye on things outside the game while flying ... which wasn't easy. And typing while in VR was horrible.
@yojimbo yeah, the price of having a very immersive time is quite high for interaction with second screens. Pretty good touch-typing practice though!
A basic head tracker would probably be more ergonomic generally, but nothing quite beats the immersion of coming up to a station for docking in a panoramic cockpit.