February 19, 2024

550: Ready Player Linux

1 hour 14 minutes

Chris spends the week in a VR desktop, revealing the glitches, gains, and VR's open-source future.

Sponsored By:

Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps.
Warp Terminal: Warp - the re-imagined terminal now available for Linux with multiple distributions available including Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and Arch Linux.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike

📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM

Simula One - Standalone (Preorder) — Contains detachable compute pack with SimulaOS pre-installed. Can be optionally tethered to host PCs for gaming and other purposes.

SimulaVR Headsets Delayed into 2024

Fountain.fm — Podcasts powered by community

🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM

Yard House Menu

Immersed — Empower Work With Spatial Computing

Immersed on Meta Quest

Immersed: Linux + Mac + PC Compatibility!

Immersed Reddit Wiki

Plasma Desktop in VR - JupiterTube — Quest 3 with the Immersed app running on KDE Neon.

HDMI Dummy Plug Display Emulator

DisplayPort Headless Ghost Display Emulator

Immersed + Linux = Life by Alexandre E Souza

umlaeute/v4l2loopback — This module allows you to create "virtual video devices". Normal (v4l2) applications will read these devices as if they were ordinary video devices, but the video will not be read from e.g. a capture card but instead it is generated by another application.

Linux VR Adventures Wiki — A collection of links, useful resources and guides for the amazing world of VR on Linux.

Monado — Open Source XR Platform

OpenComposite GitLab repository

Completely stutter-free VR reprojection on Linux WITHOUT SteamVR!

nixpkgs-xr — Automated packages for XR/AR/VR tools and apps for NixOS

Monado NixoOS Module Pull Request

LFNW Schedule is LIVE

bravohotel91/ipfspodcastnode — IPFS Podcast Node for IPFSPodcasting.net

ipfspodcastnode on Docker Hub

IPFS Podcasting

The kernel becomes its own CNA — As many of you all know, I have talked a lot about CVEs in the past, and yes, I think the system overall is broken in many ways, but this change is a way for us to take more responsibility for this, and hopefully make the process better over time. - Greg Kroah-Hartman

aksiksi/compose2nix — A tool to automatically generate a NixOS config from a Docker Compose project.

arion via NixOS configuration example — Example setup running the Grocy kitchen inventory management system via linuxserver.io image and arion on NixOS.

vt52's pebkac.lol BBS

Nebula is Not the Fastest Mesh VPN — For this first public release of data, we’ve chosen to test the most popular mesh VPN options we’re aware of, so we will be comparing Nebula (in AES mode), Netmaker, Tailscale, and ZeroTier (note, this list is intentionally in alphabetical order, as additional confirmation of our commitment to fairness).

DESTEK QH3 Pressure-Free Head Strap

BOBOVR S3 Pro Super Strap Accessories, Head air conditioning and 10000

CitraVR: Port of the leading 3DS emulator — Play 3DS homebrew and personal game backups in 3D on the go with your Quest. CitraVR is a GPL-licensed, engineless OpenXR application with all source code publicly available.

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