u/vividspecter

I've already got a pretty large library, so I'll give some recommendations (mostly older as haven't had much time of late). All PCVR as I prefer buying on Steam:

• Synthriders - rhythm game like beat saber but more dance focused

• Dirt Rally 2.0 - not sure what the status of sim racing on Linux (and the Frame currently) but a great experience if you're at all into racing

- Automobilista 2 - similar quality but track instead of rally-focused

• Doom 3 Fully Possessed Mod - Doom 3 mod. I never really enjoyed the original game but in VR it's a lot of fun (and scary). Looks like the github repo has gone, so not sure where to find it today

• Eleven Table Tennis - Just what it appears to be, a nice table tennis again with somewhat realistic physics. Suprisingly fun.

• Half-Life 2: VR Mod - For when you've played Alyx to death and want something similar. A greater challenge as well since it wasn't designed as an intro to VR.

• Ragnarock - Another rhythm game that has a kind of viking drumming motif with a more rock/metal focused soundtrack

• Sniper Elite VR - A bit janky but feels like an oldschool WW2 game but in VR. Maps are a lot smaller than the mainline series though, likely due to standalone limitations.

• The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - This one has had controller issues with the open source Linux stack, but hopefully it will work well with the Frame. Semi-open world survival horror game with fun combat being the main draw. There's also a sequel/DLC but I haven't gotten to it yet.

• Crysis VR - The original Crysis in VR. The game in flat never really grabbed me, but is a lot more compelling as a VR game (although I'm a bit more prone to nausea with this one). See:

https://crysis.vrmods.eu/

• UEVR mods - A bunch of games with unreal engine support this. A bit of a pain to setup and the quality of the experience varies, but opens up a lot of conventional games. See: https://uevr-profiles.com/

EDIT: I also suggest digging into the Steam Workshop mods for Alyx. There's a lot of good content there, and you get the fantastic Alyx engine and gunplay.

EDIT 2: I'll throw in a recommendation for this bundle: https://www.digiphile.co/collections/vr-games-showcase-the-new-essentials as it looks to have some well regarded games (Into the Radius 2 and Convrgence in particular)

Works for me. If the archive.org link doesn't work below, you can try Firefox's "reader mode" or pressing escape while it's loading which can sometimes bypass it.

I think it's a soft paywall anyway, so I suspect a private tab or clearing cookies will help as well.

>Even in Windows, I struggled getting streaming working on quest.

Ironically, streaming is better on Linux these days with the full open source stack (wivrn + xrizer) than it is on Windows.

Hopefully, the Frame will at least support wivrn at launch (which should in theory as it's just an android apk on the client side).

Another idea if it's some sort of windowing weirdness is to try running the emulator through gamescope on the host machine. It may help (or it may make things worse).

Ah right, it wasn't particularly good last time I tried so it slipped my mind.

You might be able to use Zink (opengl to vulkab translation layer).

Gamescope can be used to support similar scaling options, although probably not as well as lossless scaling.

While likely to give better results, optiscaler only works with games that have built in frame generation. lsfg-vk works with almost any game.

That's pretty much everything since around 2010 from memory.

There's a comment on !linux_gaming@lemmy.world claiming that this was written by a Valve dev. If that's correct, I'd call that official enough.

Should be useful for some other newer controllers as well, particularly those that expose more more buttons and axes than the basic xinput emulation can support.

It could be a software issue since the FEX translator is quite new and SteamVR had been undercooked on Linux for a while.

I see some people advertising the original Steam controller for > than the new one as well. Grifters gonna grift.

AUD price is pretty much right at the limit of what I'd be willing to pay (150 AUD). I'll probably

wait a bit though, as I'm not playing many trackpad required games at the moment.

Name reminds me of rockbox, which is a Linux-based firmware for digital audio players. I'm not sure if they are intentionally riffing on the name but this looks to be a similar idea but for gaming handhelds.

Flashbacks to 2020 and trying to buy a videocard.

It supports both, but yeah, for rendering it will require updates to the game.