According to a renowned German PC games magazine, Gamestar, the SteamVR device HTC Vive is going to be released only for Windows in the beginning.
Gamestar journalists attended a demonstration of the Vive HTC and spoke to HTC representatives. They found the VR impression very convincing. But I guess there are enough descriptions of that out there on the net. The news for Linux users is hidden in their conclusion: According to HTC "Executive Director Global Marketing" Jeff Gattis, Vive HTC will only work with Windows on release.
Here's the original German text:
QuoteErstaunlich: Auch wenn Steam große Anstrengungen unternimmt, mit SteamOS ein eigenes Linux-Derivat als Gaming-Betriebssystem in den Markt zu drücken, wird die Vive vorerst ausschließlich mit Windows funktionieren. Steam-Boxen wären eh zu langsam für die Vive-VR, schmunzelte Gattis schelmisch, man konzentriere sich lieber auf Windows als Betriebssystem.
My translation:
QuoteSurprisingly, although Steam [Valve] is making great efforts to push its own Linux derivative SteamOS to the market as a gaming operating system, Vive VR will initially work exclusively with Windows. Steam machines are too slow for the Vive VR anyway, Gattis smiled mischievously, so they prefer to concentrate on the Windows operating system.
I tried to find other mentions about this fact on the net, but to no avail. The Gamestar people cannot possibly have been the only journalists going to that event...?
Although they said it will not work, there might be a way to get it running on Linux as well. But to me, SteamVR was one of the major possible attractions of Steam Machines on release, and if this news turns out to be true, it's another rather disappointing one for me.
Full article (German) Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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I'd be happy if somenone's got contradicting information from comparibly reliable sources.
I'd love to be wrong.
That right there makes this sound like either a microsoft fan boy trolling Linux people, or it's just another stupid rumor.
You don't own a Steam Machine. You own a PC running Linux.
I hope not - I've been saying since I was a kid (I'm in my mid-30s now) that virtual reality was the future... And for the first time in all that time, we now have a lot of big companies with a lot of money pushing the concept hard!
I felt that the consumer electronics and entertainment industries moved away from 3D too quickly, but there's a lot of research going into virtual reality and if "they" get it right, there's no reason why it can't or won't take-off and truly become the future of entertainment...
I'm disappointed by this, but I'll still get it (well, unless Razer release their OSVR headset first).
But honestly, any "manufacturer" can cobble together a high end PC (SLI Titans?), label it as a Steam Machine, install SteamOS on it and sell it.
Yeah, I too personally think VR should be a good experience, and hope it's no fad. DK1 pixels were horrible though, would be nice to try consumer version and the Vive to see if I can see the pixel boundary lines, before deciding if I wanna get it.