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Simula is a VR window manager built with the godot engine.<br>
Simula is a VR window manager built with the godot engine.
 
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2023/01/15: after starting steamvr, cpu-usage spikes to 90.<br>
after ~20m simula splash render shows up, then crashes "InitVRFailed"<br>
appears to be trying to load xfce4-terminal which I don't have installed.<br>
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After installing, <code>Failed to connect to session manager: Failed to connect to the session manager: SESSION_MANAGER environment variable not defined</code><br>
Maybe try from openbox?
 
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= Documentation =
= Documentation =
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= Install =
= Install =
<blockquote>
<blockquote>
Your video-card and driver must support [[opengl]].<br>
Test with
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
glxgears
</syntaxhighlight>
Ensure your user is in nix truxted-users, and restart nix-daemon
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
# /etc/nix/nix.conf
trusted-users = root will
</syntaxhighlight>
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
sudo systemctl restart nix-daemon
cd /var/src \
cd /var/src \
   && git clone --depth 1 --recursive https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula \
   && git clone --depth 1 --recursive https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula \
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</syntaxhighlight>
</syntaxhighlight>
</blockquote><!-- Install -->
</blockquote><!-- Install -->
= Usage =
<blockquote>
<syntaxhighlight lang="yaml">
- start steamvr
- /var/src/Simula/result/bin/simula  # use appropriate user to match dir permissions
</syntaxhighlight>
</blockquote><!-- Usage -->

Latest revision as of 19:51, 15 January 2023

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