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What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Mine would be creating pen and paper ciphers for my made up secret communication needs.

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[–] cynetri@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Open-source virtual reality, usually just any VR works too lmao but especially FOSS VR

[–] ainen@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Care to elaborate on this? I love both open-source and VR, but have never really thought to pair the two.

[–] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed, I'd like to hear more. As VR gets more accessible, I would probably be into open source resources for it.

[–] cynetri@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's a lot of projects working to make VR on Linux a reality, although SteamVR technically works on linux it's really only if you have a Vive/Index or third-party drivers. That, and SteamVR on Linux is a buggy mess anyway lol. I'm definitely not an expert in any of this though, I'm only just now going into college to pursue this stuff further lmao. Here's some projects I've been following if you wanna look further:

Monado, an OpenXR runtime built to run on Linux natively, and it provides features like finger tracking using the cameras on an Index along with other headsets
V-Sekai, a framework for building social VR games built on the Godot 4 game engine
Godot itself, while not explicitly VR-focused I think it has great potential for making VR content in the near future, and it's also where I want to focus my efforts (I already made my first game, sorta lol)
Hearth, I don't understand it fully but what I gather is that it aims to be a shared virtual space, kinda like those "3D" desktops from the 90s but with multiple people and super extendable
SlimeVR, open-source full-body trackers for VR. Mostly used in VRChat lol
Stardust XR, a VR display server for Linux that supports stuff like widgets and filters (I think)

There's tons more but I can't think of all of them lmao, but there's definitely cool stuff going on in the space and worth checking out.