• pHr34kY@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I tried it a year ago and couldn’t get it to work at all. The install process was so destructive that I had to factory reset the headset afterwards.

    I’d try again, but I’m not sure I want to put that kind of pressure on my marriage.

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      6 months ago

      Woah, not sure what you ran into, but my install process was to check the box that I was a developer and side load the adb package. I’ve been streaming a dozen games from my EndeavourOS PC for a few weeks now with no issues.

      Anecdotal of course, clearly your milage has varied.

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        6 months ago

        It was a while ago, but I think it stopped operating normally for my wife’s account, and I had issues adding myself as a second user (not the device owner) with dev access.

        The nonsense where I had to get permission from meta to take control of my own hardware was utterly absurd. It was 1000x harder than tapping a button 8 times.

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          6 months ago

          Not defending Meta at all, but I think I just had to check a box on their developer portal signed in to my account?

          Anyway, I’m right there with you on picking up whatever valve has cooked up as soon as they announce something!

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            5 months ago

            To check that box, you first need to sign up to the developer portal and pair the headset to your account. It wasn’t even my headset. I just wanted to connect it to Steam on my PC.

            In future, I would be looking into something that behaves more like a peripheral device. It should be no harder to connect than a gamepad.