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Linux Compatibility With VR Goggles?
WorldWarCheese writes "Many's the time I wish I had a little more mobility or comfort with my computer. Laptops are OK, but anyone interested can see right onto my screen; and a laptop doesn't quite have that 'cool' factor that VR goggles / headsets do. The problem is, whenever I've looked at the options, Linux compatibility is not mentioned. Is there a VR headset out there that is compatible with Ubuntu? If not, what could I do to make it compatible, and how feasible would that be?"
...they do nothing!
Congratulations, your half-way to becoming the newest member of the Borg collective! Just need a machine suit and a bunch of implants, and the transition to your new life is complete. :D
doesn't quite have that 'cool' factor that VR goggles / headsets do
That word.
I do not think it means what you think it means.
Your name is Kent Mcclure... I may remember you from such Slashdot stories as "Jobs Not Giving This Year's Macworld Keynote" and "How Do I Manage Seasoned Programmers?"
With the caveat that people might still be able to see what you are doing just by looking at you.
We geeks thing wearing a HMD is 'cool', most everybody else things you're a dork.
So in other words it changes nothing.
You can probably get the goggles working fine, the problem is finding content for them.
You mean the prospect of being able to do ls -lf in glorious 3-D color isn't sufficiently enticing?
Village idiot in some extremely smart villages.
This adds a whole new dimension to the "schizophrenic or Bluetooth" game, watching people frantically waving their arms and ducking and peeking around nothing, mumbling "My files... where the %$#* are my FILES?"
Information wants to be free.
Entertainment wants to be paid.
You just want to be cheap.