Is there any movement on this? It would be really handy to be able to use desktop theatre mode or even the media player.
Seconded! A Linux port of the SteamVR Media Player would be a most welcome addition to SteamVR on Linux.
One more vote for all of these listed.
Personal priority would be seeing the Desktop Game Theater. Right now you can use the new steam-vr interface to see the desktop, which shows a game in full screen, and is actually very playable, but very distracting with all the other interface information floating around. Seeing an actual build of Desktop game theater would be very nice.
I looked further into this, from what I can tell the desktop theatre was slapped together in Unity engine, which is now a dated version that doesn't support Linux fully as far as I can tell. It might be able to be rigged to work in Proton, but I haven't looked into it. Parts of The Lab are in unity (some in source 2) and not all of them work in Proton either.
It would be cool if the desktop theatre could be reimplemented into Source 2, but its probably not a Valve priority
Could they pipe the Windows versions thru Proton in the meantime?
Are there any third party alternatives available?
Are there any third party alternatives available?
@oxr463
I hesitate to add this here as this is not a forum. This is a question better asked on something like Reddit.
Still hopefully posting this will prevent future questions from others looking for help (I know it helped me a lot).
You can take a look at this repo for ideas to make your Linux VR experience more enjoyable:
https://gitlab.com/vr-on-linux/VR-on-Linux
Specifically to your question about Desktop Game Theater alternatives in Linux, I have seen that vr-video-player can sometimes do the job (despite the name it is not just for video files).
vr-video-player - play stereoscopic 3D videos (and some non-VR
games) on your VR headset
@ Valve , just a thought but maybe something like 'vr-video-player' can be used or inspire options here to provide working built-in Steam VR Game Theater experience on Linux.
Nothing extracted yet.
They are tools made with Unity that reside in
SteamApps/common/SteamVR/tools/steamvr_desktop_game_theater
and
SteamApps/common/SteamVR/tools/steamvr_media_player
and they don't have Linux binaries. Since Unity 2017.2 (I think still with that multisampling bug) but at the latest 2017.3, Unity's SteamVR support seems to work fine on Linux so there should be no external reason to block releasing these tools on these new Unity releases.
These two are especially annoying because the UI on Linux exposes them but they don't work.
Other applications from Valve that are made with Unity are The Lab and the SteamVR Performance Test. At least they are separate products that are clearly marked as not available for Linux, but we would like to see them on Linux too.