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?"

The VR Goggles...

[Anonymous Coward]

...they do nothing!

VR goggles, eh?

[Anonymous Coward]

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

[bperkins]

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

[egandalf]

Inconceivable!

Re:My name is Kent Mcclure

[YourExperiment]

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?"

Re:My name is Kent Mcclure

[Arancaytar]

watch porn without anyone knowing

With the caveat that people might still be able to see what you are doing just by looking at you.

Re:Cool == Dorky

[genner]

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

[speroni]

Anybody want a peanut?

Re:Cool

[windsurfer619]

I cannot conceive of a peanut.

Visual Security??

[Anonymous Coward]

VR/Goggles or not, People will still know you are watching pr0n...

Re:Kevin Warwick

[Hal_Porter]

All those students get turned into cybermen using implants bought with the cash though. Kevin Warwick is an evil, evil man.

Re:Content

[Shag]

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

[FLEB]

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

[thousandinone]

Not an issue here, as long as the dimensions of Mom's basement exceed those.

Re:Content

[genner]

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...

[LoRdTAW]

Poser. Real tough typists just give the keyboard a menacing look and it types for them.