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Dave Andersondanderson@hachyderm.io
Nov 9, 2026, 1:56 AM
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.
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CMDR Yojimbosan 🅅⁂yojimbo@masto.hackers.town
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.
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Dave Andersondanderson@hachyderm.io
Nov 9, 2026, 8:58 AM
@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.
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