hakase

That's kind of a disingenuous citation, since WMR has been officially discontinued by Windows for over a year, and you can't install it on any new machines, so of course its official use numbers are currently incredibly low.

Five years ago, however, WMR was more than 10% of the VR market (and that's not even including all of the other proprietary storefronts that these headsets were aimed at), and I'd bet that a lot of people, like me, would still use it if it were better supported. Plus that's a lot of e-waste that could be reused and repurposed if we could get 3rd party software to work.

Literally the only reason I still dual-boot my gaming PC is because I have to boot into window$ any time I want to use my VR headset, so, while I would absolutely love it if Linux were VR ready, that's unfortunately just not the case.

Counter-counter point: some VR is working. It's not working for a significant portion of VR hardware, so it is not VR ready.

Windows isn't ready for much of anything these days, so I'm not really sure why you're trying to make that comparison with Linux, an OS that prides itself on openness and getting an insane variety of hardware working on it.

I agree that "VR ready" doesn't have to include every single headset, but that's pretty disingenuous when a significant number of VR headsets use(d) WMR. Linux will not be VR ready until WMR is working.

Android doesn't pride itself on its incredible hardware compatibility to the same extent that Linux does.

I realize that I am in no way entitled to other people's labor to get WMR working on Linux, of course, but until this significant category of VR headsets does work on Linux, it is not VR ready.

What’s your point?

"Get VR working and it will be."

"It is!"

"No, it is for your specific hardware and use case."

That microsoft didn’t enable the necessary software components to run windows mixed reality HMDs on linux?

No - that's a given. It's that nobody has working third party software for my hardware yet, hence the "VR isn't ready on Linux yet" statement.

The reverbs never natively supported any open standards like SteamVR or OpenXR.

I know.

WMR headsets are the ones that have been the hardest to get going with open VR systems like Monado, but that doesn’t mean that hardware that implemented sane standards isn’t already working great, which it is.

I know.

That said, WMR is partially working at this time.

I know.

Bottom line, if you use something that is actually supposed to work, it does. If you don’t, then yeah, the volunteer-created hacks to get things to work are still in progress.

I know.

My VR hardware is still not working, and Linux is clearly not "VR ready".

My HP Reverb G2 V2 isn't.

Radical Psycho Machine (RPM) Racing for the SNES!

Fun fact, this was one of the few games that played entirely in the SNES' High Resolution graphics mode!

Already answered, it doesn't matter, and it doesn't matter.

Because sovereign nations have the right to decide who is and who is not allowed across their borders, and they also have the right to take reasonable measures to expel those who are present in their country without permission.

Australia makes up like 7% of the world's habitable land, and even more of the habitable land that could be inhabited by reptiles in the first place, so I guess that's not too surprising.

They sent people to the jungle without shelter.

I suppose that's possible, but Imma need a source for that claim, because it's definitely not in the article I read. That seems more like the sort of blind, knee-jerk reaction the twit-head in the pic is intending to elicit with their inflammatory one-liner.

Do you really think they plan to meet all of their needs?

All of the needs required of a brief detainment before repatriation? Yeah, I see no reason why Panama wouldn't do that, especially since they probably want these people out of Panama as soon as possible.

And if they are just doing their best to cope with the migrants, then the US is responsible for sending them to a place that could not handle them.

They seem to be handling them just fine. I agree that the US sending them there was a dick move, and probably an attempt at strongarm tactics on Trump's part, but Trump being a dick doesn't suddenly mean that Panama is running a concentration camp, as the talking head is asserting to make people angry enough to engage en masse with their "content".