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Warum gibt es solche Eisenbahn-Wagenausstattungen nur in Finnland?*
*weil es da schöner ist und im Sommer länger hell
#vr #finland

Wie lassen sich historische Diskurse anhand von Archivmaterial und #VR neu entdecken? ✉️ 🤖
Das erklären euch Dr. Christina Zimmermann, Silvan Monteiro und Prof. Dr. Michael Kaufmann von der Hochschule Luzern praxisorientiert beim #CCP6 in einem der zahlreichen Workshops.
🎟️ Tickets und weitere Infos 👉…

Smart navigation for visual prostheses in virtual reality: An end-to-end framework for priority-based scene translation and path guidance #VR

Well I do not recommend trying the beta channel.
After trying that it booted into a VR KDE desktop without Steam running, and without internet. And without SteamVR package installed.
Only rescue was holding the headset button during boot, using the volume keys to select the prior boot system, and doing a factory reset to make it stick.
Crikey. Really is a linux box, complete with having to fix update breakage.
#steamFrame #vr

Battery life on the Steam Frame is really rather poor for sure.
Barely getting more than an hour from it.
Fast-chargers are going to be be an important thing, coz all the chargers I have lying around are taking 4 hours to charge it up for an hour of a game? Something like that.
Better chargers are on the way.
Also, a battery with fast-charge of many watts which is suitable for a pocket with a wire to the back of the head.
Back of the head there does feel quite well designed for having an external battery pack.
#vr #steamFrame

The Steam Frame arrived.
Not a great experience so far really.
The Wifi-dongle that brings 6G streaming doesn't currently work on Linux V6 kernels. Which is what Debian has.
Apparently Windows is the only thing fully supported really. Internet doesn't even sound that optimistic about the Steam Machine though it ought to at least work once I have one of them.
Streaming from the linux box is mostly unsuccessful during this lunch break here. Slow to start and timing out, slow to get going. Presumably partly coz only 5G wifi.
Controllers feel light and shoddy, aren't tracked particularly well. Pistol Whip scores well down due to the dropping frames and the terrible tracking of the aim.
Overall seems worse than the Vive at 30 minutes or so of playing with it.
Hope they improve it I guess, and streaming might work better once there's a machine with a V7 linux kernel compatible with this wifi dongle in the house.
Fairly comfortable to wear, though the foam attached by magnets comes off too easily as you don or remove the headset.
Sadly, this is not currently a machine which beats Facebook's Quest3 at all.
Have tried to install Alyx and Doom VR on it directly. Can't tell how that goes till after work now really.
#steamFrame #vr

If you turn on Developer Mode, and set a user password, then you can ssh into the linux machine strapped to your face.
Now that is the kind of thing I'm talking about. Oh yes.
#steamFrame #vr

Google Earth is too much though. Crashes about 40% of the way through 'building the earth'.
#googleEarth #vr #steamFrame

Played #unloop #steamFrame #vr

The Steam Frame is released. At a shockingly high price range, but that's RAM for you in these post-ai days.
This means improvement on Linux VR in general with all the latest patches. The home-room is updated, the menus all looking fancy and new. Even if you got an old Vive.
Even more exciting than that, Steam have agreed to serve my place in the wait-queue so one might even arrive here in the coming weeks and thank goodnes it's after payday. If it was a week ago I might have had to give up my place.
Sounds like the Alyx updates intend for that game to run on the machine stand-alone, which would be nice. Able to take that big old complex game on the road to demo at parties.
Anyway. I'm poor again and dunno how long the wait for the package will be, but looking forward to seeing it.
God I hope it's not shit and rescues us from the Facebook-dominated market since they bought Oculus.
#vr #linux