Will Oculus Rift work with Quadro M1000M for non-gaming purposes?
<p>On the website of Oculus Rift is is stated that the minimum system requirements for the Oculus Rift are a NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD R9 290 equivalent or greater. I am aware that the Quadro M1000M does not meet those requirements.</p>

<p>My intention is to use the Oculus Rift for developing educational applications (visualization of molecular structures) which in terms of computational demand does not even come close to modern games.</p>

<p>For the above-mentioned kind of purpose, <strong>would the Oculus Rift run fine on less powerful GPUs (i.e. the Quadro M1000M) or is the driver developed in such a way that it simply "blocks" cards that do not meet the required specifications?</strong></p>

<p>Further information:</p>

<p>I intent on developing my application in Linux using GLFW in combination with LibOVR as mentioned in this guide: <a href="http://www.glfw.org/docs/3.1/rift.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.glfw.org/docs/3.1/rift.html</a>. </p>

<p><strong>edit</strong>
It was pointed out that the SDK does not support Linux. So as an alternative option, I could also use Windows / Unity.</p>

<p>Any personal experiences on the topic are highly appreciated!</p>