Linux Compatibility With VR Goggles? 170
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?"
The VR Goggles... (Score:5, Funny)
...they do nothing!
VR goggles, eh? (Score:4, Funny)
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
Cool (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Cool (Score:3, Funny)
Re:My name is Kent Mcclure (Score:5, Funny)
Re:My name is Kent Mcclure (Score:5, Funny)
With the caveat that people might still be able to see what you are doing just by looking at you.
Re:Cool == Dorky (Score:4, Funny)
We geeks thing wearing a HMD is 'cool', most everybody else things you're a dork.
So in other words it changes nothing.
Re:Cool (Score:3, Funny)
Anybody want a peanut?
Re:Cool (Score:2, Funny)
I cannot conceive of a peanut.
Visual Security?? (Score:1, Funny)
VR/Goggles or not, People will still know you are watching pr0n...
Re:Kevin Warwick (Score:2, Funny)
All those students get turned into cybermen using implants bought with the cash though. Kevin Warwick is an evil, evil man.
Re:Content (Score:4, Funny)
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?
Re:Content (Score:4, Funny)
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 %$#* are my FILES?"
Re:Use this instead (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Content (Score:3, Funny)
This adds a whole new dimension to the "schizophrenic or Bluetooth" game, watching people frantically waving their arms and ducking and peeking around nothing, mumbling "My files... where the %$#* are my FILES?"
You just discribed the average day at my office,
Re:The VR Goggles... (Score:3, Funny)
Poser. Real tough typists just give the keyboard a menacing look and it types for them.