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Does anyone have experience with monado VR? (feddit.org)
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Microsoft deprecated their VR framework (WMD), and therefore many VR headsets compatible with this standard are now effectively broken.

Luckily, the open source community has started reverse engineering the hardware and is now able to support most of these headsets through a project called Monado. Monado runs exclusively on linux at the moment.

Does anyone here have some experience with Monado? Is it worth getting a cheap VR headset and give it a try? I heard that it is still not very stable, but there isn't much information available.

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[–] ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, albeit with Vive Pro. The good: much better motion smoothness and reprojection as opposed to Linux SteamVR

The neutral: Monado is just a runtime, you need to get additional software to it, like WlxOverlay-S for desktop preview

The bad: Most older games utilise OpenVR. Monado is an OpenXR runtime, meaning games have to be translated from one to another. A software for this - OpenComposite, is not feature complete and your game compatibility will be a hit or miss. VRChat works okay, H3VR and No Man's Sky work but you can't rebind your controls. Some games don't work at all, like Boneworks.

Newer games however are running with OpenXR and there your mileage will be much better. Phasmophobia, Bonelab and Pavlov are such games and those work flawlessly

[–] fxomt@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This might help, it runs openvr games with openxr: https://gitlab.com/znixian/OpenOVR

i used it before, it works pretty well.

[–] ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is exactly what I've mentioned

[–] fxomt@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago

Sorry, i didn't notice.