There are so little info about ALVR on Linux. You are a god sent! I have struggled for so long and your guide was very helpful. Basically, I had major problems with bitrate. Artifacts, stutter, totally unplayable. I've already changed bitrate to constant, but kept it around 30-60 with no significant changes to my problem. I thought it just my router can't handle it (but it's pretty powerful Mikrotik). To my amaze, when you said, that your bitrate is around 130, I tried it, and it actually worked flawlessly! Thank you so much! Still, the only issue is sound. It keeps resetting for me, when I put down the headset for a moment.

Man, you are amazing. I really didn't think the quest 2 would work on Linux, this is amazing news! I'm so close to being able to completely ditch windows now!

THanks for the vid, it gets almost all of the secrets explained in one place. Very informative. With few hints from yu vid I've got ALVR on Fedora 39 talking to Pico4 via steamvr. Not there's one piece of puzzle to be solved. Hot make windows apps running via Wine talk to SteamVR/ALVR. So far I can get regular output displayed on headset but not in VR mode. I guess it needs sort of shim/glue that will let app know there's VR available and send output to steamvr

very grateful for this primer, I just got a Vive Focus 3 and I've had my head in the hardware waiting for it to ship to me and hadn't managed to find as much information (beyond finding ALVR/ALXR packages) on configuring it for use in Garuda (arch based linux distro). It arrives tomorrow and thanks to your help I know that it's going to work with the mesa driver I have just fine, and I was really worried about having to grab AMDGPUPRO without causing chaos on my system.

Massive thanks for this proper detailed guide. I have been able to get ALVR with Pico 4 running the best its ever been at highest image quality! Your nerdiness is greatly appreciated!

U are amazing bro I was trying to sit this up for soooooo long but u helped me do it

christ, i really owe you man

This is fantastic, thank you so much! This is such a great resource that it really should be directly on the ALVR repo!

I kept watching after you covered my issue cause your voice is just so smooth

The screen is either black or it times out

Thanks for this guide! Enabling Legacy Reprojection Mode fixed the terrible stuttering I was getting.

Great channel man keep it up.

You saved my sanity. Thanks a lot!

Exciting. So this would mean that, even if I can only find 'standalone' headsets available secondhand to dip my toes into VR, as long as this application supports them, I should be able to use them for PCVR from the Linux gaming PC I just spent a lot of money building? That's great news!