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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 31 2018 - 14:24:17 CDT

Great. I would love for others to do this experiment also with other
hardware and OS versions. Since I've already got some OpenHMD code in VMD
which was used for a research paper a couple of years ago, the effort required
to update it shouldn't be too onerous if it turns out that its support for
the Vive/Vive Pro are usable for at least 3 degrees of freedom head orientation.

Best,
  John

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 07:06:36PM +0000, McGuire, Kelly wrote:
> Sounds good, I will see if I can figure out how to use the test codes and
> test OpenMD on the new Vive Pro.
>
> Kelly L. McGuire
>
> PhD Scholar
>
> Biophysics
>
> Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology
>
> Brigham Young University
>
> LSB 3050
>
> Provo, UT 84602
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> From: John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 1:03:29 PM
> To: McGuire, Kelly
> Cc: VMD Mailing LIst
> Subject: Re: vmd-l: VR
>
> Hi,
> As I noted in a few previous emails to VMD-L, the main thing we're
> waiting on for VR in VMD is for the first release of the new
> Khronos OpenXR multi-vendor VR APIs to be released. I'm going to
> Siggraph in Vancouver in 11 days, and one of the major items I'm going
> to be pursuing while I'm there is getting in contact with the leader
> of the OpenXR working group to get either access to a pre-1.0 API (ideal)
> or (more likely) an update on a release timeline and roadmap.
>
> If OpenXR takes too much longer, then it may be that OpenHMD
> might become a reasonable short-term candidate. I already have some
> early code for OpenHMD in VMD now, but the last time I used it OpenHMD
> didn't have support for anything other than the Oculus DK[12]. Checking
> the latest page, it seems that they have some very preliminary support for
> the HTC Vive now (no position data, no distortion correction):
> [1]https://github.com/OpenHMD/OpenHMD/wiki/Support-List
>
> If people want to contribute right now, it'd be great if people could try
> running OpenHMD on whatever hardware they have, using the little test
> codes it
> comes with, and report back what the results were and what OS and hardware
> you tried it on. If it turns out that OpenHMD is quasi-usable on recent
> HMD
> hardware like the Vive and Vive-Pro, then I might be convinced to go ahead
> and add the necessary updates and new code into VMD rather than continuing
> to wait for OpenXR to get an initial release.
>
> Best,
> John
>
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 12:38:07AM +0000, McGuire, Kelly wrote:
> > I just received my Vive Pro VR set. I would be more than happy to
> help or
> > test any progress made with VMD and VR systems. I can't really help
> with
> > any of the programming per se, but if there are any updates to VMD
> that
> > include interfacing with VR, it would be fun to try it.
> >
> > Kelly L. McGuire
> > PhD Scholar
> > Biophysics
> > Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology
> > Brigham Young University
> > LSB 3050
> > Provo, UT 84602
>
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> [2]http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Phone: 217-244-3349
> [3]http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
>
> References
>
> Visible links
> 1. https://github.com/OpenHMD/OpenHMD/wiki/Support-List
> 2. http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/
> 3. http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ 

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