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Alternative driver for Windows Mixed Reality VR headsets has been ported to Linux

a month ago by lichtmetzger to c/linux

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Introducing support for running Oasis on Linux through Ignition All credit goes to Bnuuy Solutions for developing the Ignition project to run SteamVR Windows drivers on Linux and to Supremium for writing missing USB support in Wine as well as bring-up support for Oasis. Linux support is for advanced users, as VR on Linux still requires a lot of fiddling. Prerequisites Switch to Oasis preview branch in Steam. (Recommended) Switch SteamVR to beta branch. Add the 70-wmr.rules found at the root...

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

lichtmetzger 17 points a month ago

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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Eldritch 4 points a month ago

Aw damn

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TimeWalker 2 points a month ago

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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lichtmetzger 4 points a month ago

That's nice to know! I tried to run it on Fedora but it crashes when the room setup starts. I thought it just wasn't ready on Wayland, but after reading up a bit more this seems to be a problem with mesa on Fedora, because they build it with debug flags enabled which triggers a specific bug other distros don't have.

Oh, the joys of Linux... :)

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