Tmmrn

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by Tmmrn 10y ago
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 on Linux actually one day be
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by Tmmrn 10y ago
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 code without facebook - who the hell knows?
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by Tmmrn 10y ago
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 library on whatever store they like. It's certainly not
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by Tmmrn 10y ago
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 system Oculus supports - even though most of the popu
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by Tmmrn 10y ago
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.
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by Tmmrn 11y ago
> 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 in VR while you both catch up on your news fee
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by Tmmrn 11y ago
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 support... > I won't send them more money unless the
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by Tmmrn 11y ago
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 into the ports, that's just enough to deliver something t
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by Tmmrn 11y ago
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 (especially if you haven't TRIED it yet!).
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by Tmmrn 11y ago
What's wrong with 3d rendered avatars? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zP0E2atshw
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by Tmmrn 11y ago
> 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. They are now a company that works with Microsoft, AMD a
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by Tmmrn 11y ago
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 and nvidia on windows-exclusive proprietary (and as of now
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by Tmmrn 11y ago
Alternatively "Oculus Rift SDK gets tied to proprietary windows-only APIs".
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by Tmmrn 12y ago
> 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 regeneration. - Edsger W. Dijkstra
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by Tmmrn 12y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmeDzx4SUME
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by Tmmrn 12y ago
> 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.s. OpenGL 4.4? Or v.s. what will actually &quo
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by Tmmrn 12y ago
> 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 up to the task". 2. AAA game developers say
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by Tmmrn 12y ago
> 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 developers are pushing for open source drivers? T
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by Tmmrn 12y ago
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 infinitely many digits are not a number of digi
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by Tmmrn 12y ago
> 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 of them actually work and how many crash with SI
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by Tmmrn 12y ago
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 possible support, but it shouldn’t have the
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by Tmmrn 12y ago
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 "perfect shape" thingy too..
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by Tmmrn 12y ago
free video streaming for all* *limited to customers of microsoft and apple. Excluding everything that is not windows or mac os. Also, android.
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
> 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 system. Its job is to provide a base for
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
In chromium I have a feeling the reactions are a little bit late. In firefox it's better I think. Hit areas of the pipes are a little bit too big. Or it's too fast to see what happens. edit: Pretty sure there's something eith
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
Way too loud at default volume No volume controls
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
Sure, but why make the commitment to build your whole thing windows-only when you are only a tiny bit away from actually doing it platform independent. Like, for having options in the future, and stuff.
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
You surely meant the concept of "free software", right? RIGHT?
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
Wow, literally everything you say is false. > The world of Google and Apple (Samsung and FOSS aren't even a player) is a world of closed computing platforms As a user of Omnirom and a donator to Replicant I don't understand how
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by Tmmrn 13y ago
> XBox is a fantastic product, all things considered. Fantastic in what regard? Can I put my favorite linux distribution on it? Can I even write and release software for it under GPL? Without "applying" to microsoft and waiting

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