Simula

Simula is a VR window manager built with the godot engine.

WARNING:

2023/01/15: after starting steamvr, cpu-usage spikes to 90.
after ~20m simula splash render shows up, then crashes "InitVRFailed"
appears to be trying to load xfce4-terminal which I don't have installed.

After installing, Failed to connect to session manager: Failed to connect to the session manager: SESSION_MANAGER environment variable not defined
Maybe try from openbox?

Documentation

home	https://simulavr.com/shop/
github	https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula

Install

Your video-card and driver must support opengl.
Test with

glxgears

Ensure your user is in nix truxted-users, and restart nix-daemon

# /etc/nix/nix.conf
trusted-users = root will

sudo systemctl restart nix-daemon

cd /var/src \
  && git clone --depth 1 --recursive https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula \
  && cd Simula \
  && source ./utils/Helpers.sh \
  && installSimula

ln -s `pwd`/result/bin/simula /usr/bin/simula

Usage

- start steamvr
- /var/src/Simula/result/bin/simula  # use appropriate user to match dir permissions