SimulaVR: Early Review Unit in Transit

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7 pointssandebert4 comments

Glad to see they are shipping with Arch installed, last thing I want to be doing is going back and forth between the headset and a wiki open on my desktop for three days trying to get wifi working.

Arch is just for the review unit. We're not planning on using it for our final release.

Also, the headset is ultimately customizable, so you can use whichever distro you'd like (though will probably want to use our window manager :).

Well yeah, but we need your window manager and we need device support in the repository. But in all seriousness how do you bootstrap a system, can you just attach it to a normal display?

For the auto booting variant, I used a normal display and installed everything (well, ssh and then ssh'd in and did the rest).

The Simula WM needs a regular display, so I faked one with evdi. Rest is just a .xinitrc that launches Monado and Simula, and X autolaunch.

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