cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/11027166
Petition: make WMR open source
Microsoft has stopped supporting WMR.
Please sign this petition to?open-source the software, so others can maintain it and prevent the perfectly good VR headsets becoming e-waste!
Not a chance in hell MS dignifies this with a response.
Then just sign it as a middle finger to Microsoft. The more people sign it, the worse they look
Good luck but insert meme of wiping tears off with dala dollar bills.
Do you know how many people signed the proposal to release Visual Studio on Linux?
Then just sign it as a middle finger to Microsoft. The more people sign it, the worse they look
I just love the ambiguity of who “they” is in this case.
As if ms actually gives a shit about a change.org petition
Then just sign it as a middle finger to Microsoft. The more people sign it, the worse they look
No, the more people that sign it, the more people give their personal information away. These petitions do nothing.
Microsoft concerns me greatly, but they seem to be in transition to primarily software/cloud based tech.
I’ll sign the petition while not getting hopes up, but this is the iteration of Microsoft most likely to pull such a crazy move
The team at Microsoft that was working on it probably got put on different projects. There wouldn’t be anyone to put in the effort to get the code cleaned up of any proprietary libraries, internal references,… No way they are shifting people back around and paying for development to get this done.
FYI there’s an open-source project “Monado” which attempts to reverse-engineer inside-out tracked headsets. At the moment their WMR support looks promising, headset has 6-DoF tracking and just recently controller tracking has been figured out.
Said progress will trickle down to the Oculus Rift S as well
That is awesome! Keeping the Reverb G2 alive amd enabling the move to Linux at the same time.
When not even Valve can muster enough motivation, I wouldn’t hold my breath on Microsoft.
Valve actively maintains SteamVR and put in a lot of work for Linux compatibility. Doing that while open sourcing the software is hard. It adds work.
However, open sourcing an abandoned piece of software costs virtually nothing, and can be a big image boost.
You’re wrong about open sourcing abandoned software being easy.
No no no no. Don’t you see. You just pick the “open source” dropdown in Visual Studio and it goes through the repo and history to remove any potentially problematic comments or code bits, ensures that any algorithms the company wants to keep are extracted, and even generates documentation and a github project.
It is so easy that it is criminal that more companies don’t do it. But if we make enough online petitions, they too will use the open source button.
I missed that button. Thanks!
Valve actively maintains SteamVR and put in a lot of work for Linux compatibility
You have never used SteamVR on Linux, have you?
Are you sure about this?
Sure? No. It was silly of me to suggest it was a question of motivation. I don’t know enough about it to make any such assumptions.
I did however give it another go earlier this year, with no success. I could try again if there is reason to think it should work. Valve is the company I respect the most when it comes to caring about Linux. Which is why it always surprised me that I couldn’t use the Vive there. Still one of the very few reasons left for dual booting.
