COCoeur·Oct 15, 2025
If anybody else is wondering what parents means by ALVR: "Air Light VR", a software to stream games from your PC to a VR headset: https://github.com/alvr-org/ALVR
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Stream VR games from your PC to your headset via Wi-Fi
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Ended up with the Quest 3S - probably the best combination between flexibility (standalone but PCVR possible), price and interoperability (seems to work on Linux with ALVR[1])
[1]: https://github.com/alvr-org/ALVR
In Ask HN: VR/AR – Current State of the ArtYou probably already have a solution for this, but ALVR is amazing for getting Quest hardware (any of them) to do hardware-accelerated wireless streaming: https://github.com/alvr-org/alvr
The 120hz refresh rate of those newer displays really opens up when you have a proper desktop GPU to drive them. The past few weeks I've been dusting off my Quest 1 with ALVR over USB and it's great. You can have the goofiest setup (NixOS? GNOME Wayland? Nvidia drivers? Come right in!) and it will translate the Quest's built-in tracking into SteamVR with less than a frame of delay.
Gotta love it when that thing you thought was dead is actually pretty usable thanks to sideloading and a hardworking community. If I hadn't just gotten 2 weeks of VTOL VR out of that headset I might have remembered to resent the $400 I spent on it.
In Looking Glass' new lineup includes a $300 phone-sized holographic displayThe folks at ALVR (another vr streaming client/server) are doing something similar, but are open source :
https://github.com/alvr-org/alvr
They also achieve very low latency, I didn't follow every single optimization they added but it basically boils down to a few encoding tricks (better image in the center, accept blurriness in the peripheral vision), good network infrastructure, and hardware decoding / encoding being really fast.
In Valve Launches Official Steam Link PC VR Streaming App on QuestAir Light VR – Stream VR Games from Your PC to Your Headset via Wi-Fi
3 points · Open discussionNo idea what that software is doing exactly, but if you are video capturing/encoding a game you are running on a computer, you don't want that framebuffer to have to transit anywhere to be encoded. One of the major advantages of NNENC.
That project looks abandoned and points to https://github.com/alvr-org/ALVR
Intel's GPUs has never been great for gaming. I don't know if the 5980HS removes the need for an discrete GPU performance wise.
In AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS Cezanne Defeats Intel Tiger Lake in Early BenchmarksI used ALVR and found it quite easy to get setup with + its FOSS which I prefer
https://github.com/JackD83/ALVR is the fork to use, its instructions arent super indepth but I got there its not too hard. And then steam views it like a regular steam vr headset. Its pretty cool.
In Oculus Quest 2You can also just use ALVR, which is free and works very well too:
https://github.com/JackD83/ALVR
In Oculus Quest 2