Quit SteamVR and started again and it came up correctly, headset and hand-controllers tracking. Plug HTC Vive headset into computer display port and usb, turn on hand controllers.Install SteamVR, switch to SteamVR beta by right clicking SteamVR within Steam, choosing Properties, then Betas tab.Run steam from a shell, log into Steam account.Install Nvidia graphics drivers using Ubuntu Software Update graphical interface, the Additional Drivers tab.Setting up Virtual Reality on Ubuntu 18.04

ChimeraX daily build (October 27, 2018).

Also SteamVR room setup crashed on CentOS and requiredĬopying bounds files from a Windows machine. Run the currently distributed SteamVR runtime. Installation is easier on Ubuntu than CentOS because the C++ library on CentOS 7 is too old to Using any Linux system for VR is likely to run into problemsĪnd is not advised unless it is essential to use the linux.

Molecular structures and electron microscopy density maps on their CentOS 7 desktop systems.Īlmost all VR is on Windows 10.

These tests were done to help two labs at UC San Francisco (Matt Jacobson and Adam Frost) I tried two Linux distibutionsīoth worked and gave rendering as smooth as on Windows 10 for four test systems using an HTC Vive headset although there are several small problems. Here are instruction on how to setup SteamVR to work on Linux to use ChimeraX.

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