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I really wish one of these VR headsets allowed direct use as a display without their special drivers, and provided tracking data without using their SDK.

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That's an option, but then we wouldn't have nice things like Asynchronous Timewarp / Spacewarp unless we want to shift the burden of doing that onto the rendering application. As someone who worked in VR before the Compositor was a thing, I welcome it with open arms. It's just easier for everybody.

That said, it'd be nice if you didn't have to log into some account to make it happen.

> but then we wouldn't have nice things like Asynchronous Timewarp / Spacewarp unless we want to shift the burden of doing that onto the rendering application.

Or onto common libraries and frameworks. And I can live without such features until then; if I don't use the SDK and I miss a feature that's in the SDK, that's on me.

> It's just easier for everybody.

Except people building Open Source VR applications.

There's Monado: https://monado.dev/

You can certainly use the PSVR (on PC) like this.

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