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Alternative driver for Windows Mixed Reality VR headsets has been ported to Linux (store.steampowered.com)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.world
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The Oasis driver is very well known on Windows, it makes WMR headsets like the HP Reverb G2 work again, after Mixed Reality has been removed from recent versions of Windows. Arguably, it works even better than it ever did before "officially".

Now Oasis is available on Linux as well, even though some features are not quite working with this initial release (like pairing with the internal Bluetooth receivers of the headsets).

It's based on Ignition, a project that makes Windows-only SteamVR drivers work on Linux: https://github.com/BnuuySolutions/Ignition

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[–] [S] 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It only seems to run with xorg though, which is a shame:

I had no success with Wayland, therefore I do not recommend using Oasis with Wayland.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    In the release thread, the developer did mention this:

    Wayland works if you have the correct version of Mesa. Apparently certain distros have a version too old.

    Seeing as the developer only tested on Ubuntu 24.04 and SteamOS, it's possible that they thought it wouldn't work at all.

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    [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Whaaat? I just moved to Linux and have Windows installed on another drive just to run my reverb when I want too. Maybe I don't need it anymore!

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    [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Huh, there's more than one person on the planet who owns a G2. I still have mine, and I'm still using it natively with the machine it's hooked up to locked to the last Windows version before it was rug-pulled. I'm definitely going to mess with this. (And I am definitely on the Frame list, too.)

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    [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Circling back to report that this does indeed Just Work, although with one caveat for Windows users. I'm astonished. I tired it in Windows first which because I have an AMD GPU required holding my nose and "upgrading" to 24H2 at minimum. This is (not at all) conveniently the same feature update which rug-pulls WMR capability natively and can't be undone without a reinstall and if you're in the same kind of shoes I am and your WMR headset was working previously, that's probably because you had locked your feature version to that one with third party tools and/or group policy. So that was mildly trepidatious.

    But so far so good. My only wrinkle seems to be that the double tap the menu button to activate camera passthrough does not seem to work. (Yes, I enabled the cameras in settings.)

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    [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Hell yeah

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    [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    As a frustrated Samsung Odyssey+ user this is incredible news. I've only dusted it off on occasion to try and compile everything in EnVision again, fiddle a bunch, get nauseated, and hope it improves. (I was never able to get games to launch in the headset...)

    Although, being on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed...

    I had no success with Wayland, therefore I do not recommend using Oasis with Wayland.

    Nooooo!! 😭 Maybe it can run in x11 mode with that...X11 / Wayland bridge system...

    I was jazzed for steam frame too but I'm a working class prole in 2026 A.D and it apparently doesn't even come with its own headphones? I can't responsibly justify this even if I got picked in the raffle. Lol

    If this works though, I'd finally get to erase my ancient Win10 partition for good and switch all my NTFS to BTRFS. GLORIOUS!!!

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Check the Oasis Driver Steam discussions, I got everything running on Fedora 44 KDE on Wayland.

    Also FYI the Steam Frame does have speakers aimed at your ears, they're just not "overear headphones" like on other VR headsets.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Thanks so much for the info! I'm so happy to be incorrect on both counts hahaha.

    I'm gonna look deeper into it then when I can finally get the chance. This is so very cool!! :D

    Uuuusually in my experience, if something works well enough on Fedora, OpenSUSE should be fine. :D

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    • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    you can tell matthieu moved to Valve! 😅

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