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Do you know by chance what breaks? For example, would immersed [0] still work, or tethered Steam VR?

[0]: https://immersed.com/

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I don't know either, but from the description it doesn't sound too good:

> What doesn’t work?

> Most apps downloaded through the Oculus Store because of entitlement errors (including Virtual Desktop :/)

I would assume Immersed uses this.

Disclaimer: Considering getting a Quest 2 just for Immersed.

I’m holding out for their non-Oculus support, which is coming Soon™ according to their FAQ.

Unfortunately, that’s not what the immersed faq says… it says support for new “XR platforms” coming soon. Those platforms could very well be unreleased future oculus headsets…

They might be referring to the xr-3 headset. https://varjo.com/products/xr-3/

Wow, that's an expensive headset...

Wow, "talk to sales"? Who has that kind of money?!

If you scroll to the bottom of the page there are some prices as well:

"Varjo XR-3 now available for €5495 + XR Subscription"

And the subscription seems to be 1.5k/year. :o

Wow, damn. I was being facetious, though, if a product has "talk to sales", you know it's expensive :P

Yup, just wanted to share in case you hadn't scrolled to see the actual price. :)

Hahah, thanks, I had not and was very surprised!

Immersed is free on the oculus store, so I don’t think there should be a problem with installing it from SideQuest.

Thanks for the tip, I'll make sure to try it!

Get it & try eleven. You wont be dissapointed, I promise :)

Sadly, I'm just a secondary source as someone who uses Linux full-time (and thus can't use Virtual Desktop). I'll ask my friend who did this and get back to you if he has any information.

It doesn't work on Linux? :( That sucks.

Edit: Wait... Immersed is available for Linux. For someone who doesn't know what all the requirements are for a VR desktop environment, can anyone list them? Assume I'm thinking about buying the Oculus 2 and want to use it with Linux + Immersed.

SteamVR works fine on Linux, but the only wired/lighthouse headset that works well is the Index. Most wired headsets, especially consumer ones, don't bother, so you'll have a hard time with really anything but the Index. As for Quest on Linux, the closest you'll get is with ALVR, which only has experimental builds for Linux. Sadly, it has 2-3x the latency of VD and poor NVIDIA support. I follow their development very closely, though, and it's certainly getting better.

Thanks!

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