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Oculus stopped Linux support with this blog post: https://www3.oculus.com/en-us/blog/powering-the-rift/ Their Linux support sucked anyway. They only got their unity plugin working …

Yes, but this server application was only introduced with the DK2 and the 0.4.x SDK which was delivered after the facebook acquisition. Whether they would have hold back the source…

The user will have to have steam running and steamvr installed. The developers only link to the libopenvr_api library found on github and can distribute their game including this l…

Unfortunately it doesn't matter much - The Vive will likely soon get Linux support, but all the Oculus games will remain exclusive to Windows, because that's the only operating sys…

Before the facebook acquisition you could download the source code for the SDK and it had cross platform support. After Facebook: Closed Source, Windows-only.

> You don't really want your sister scrolling through the news with you when you're on the train. But you might be totally happy to have her sitting next to you in a flowery meadow…

> If you haven't tried it, you just don't know what you're talking about. You have nothing in your life from which to draw a conclusion. I wonder why people are circlejerking so ha…

You could... return it? I thought they were very clear it wasn't refundable and there were some discussions in the forums about it with some negative quotes from the customer suppo…

The problem is that most AAA games that are benchmarked on Linux vs Windows are 3rd party ports for a tiny minority among the customers. They put as little resources as possible in…

I have no enthusiasm left for Oculus. > But if you're browsing HN because you're a hacker / developer / dreamer you are crazy to discount how substantial this release is (especiall…

What's wrong with 3d rendered avatars? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zP0E2atshw

> Our mission isn’t to connect a billion people, it’s to connect everyone in the world. I wonder whether he is aware that Oculus has been moving away from that goal for a while now…

It fits then that Oculus partnered with Microsoft, cut out support for all operating systems except windows, cut back their source code releases and are working with Microsoft, AMD…

Alternatively "Oculus Rift SDK gets tied to proprietary windows-only APIs".

> It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of re…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmeDzx4SUME

> It will be quite a turn if they switch tunes to "D3D has better tech, but GL still wins because of politics! Yay!" What are you actually comparing? Yet to be released DirectX12 v…

> If you care about graphical performance, then OpenGL is simply not up to the task. I'm always confused when people say stuff like that. 1. Random forum user says "OpenGL is not u…

> There is functionally no chance of that software bug ever getting patched; card vendors don't care about older versions of their technology, Isn't it interesting that not more de…

Notice that you write 0.9... with dots instead of just writing the number... because it isn't a "normal" number. Of course I agree, it approaches 1 for any number of digits. But in…

> ARMv7 w/o NEON Several of Google's own google apps depend on native libraries. Try to install google apps for android 4.2+ on a device without neon like tegra2 and see how many o…

Ah, it's this "why not wine" article. > I truly do feel that emulation of some sort is a proper technical direction for gaming on Linux. It is obviously pragmatic in the range of p…

kolourpaint from KDE. It's basically a clone with more features. https://vidd.me/kAU I did a quick check: It also does resizing with several choosable smoothing algorithms and the …

free video streaming for all* *limited to customers of microsoft and apple. Excluding everything that is not windows or mac os. Also, android.

> Video editing is one of the few things that Linux really can't do well. That's one of these bullshit blanket statements. Linux doesn't do video editing because it is an operating…