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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 31 2018 - 16:39:23 CDT

If you want to try running the code from the research paper, which is
what Philip is referring to, the first step is to get OpenHMD to work.
The rest is somewhat more complex, but also doable once you get that far.

Best,
  John

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 08:40:27PM +0000, McGuire, Kelly wrote:
> Actually, that would be very helpful if you could give some direction on
> setting up VMD for HMDs. Thanks Philip!
>
> Kelly L. McGuire
>
> PhD Scholar
>
> Biophysics
>
> Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology
>
> Brigham Young University
>
> LSB 3050
>
> Provo, UT 84602
>
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>
> From: Philip Loche <ploche_at_physik.fu-berlin.de>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 2:24:46 PM
> To: John Stone
> Cc: McGuire, Kelly; VMD Mailing LIst
> Subject: Re: vmd-l: VR
>
> Dear all,
> I'm currently using the VR code of VMD with the Rift CV1 and the Vive (not
> pro) on a machine with two GTX1080 without any problems. I know that the
> OpenHMD guys are working on the positional tracking and they already have
> some experimental code for the Rift [1]. Currently I am not following
> their developer chat but I think there is still an interest to implement
> positional tracking.
> @Kelly: If you need a hand for building VMD for HMDs you can just write.
> Best,
> Philip
> [1] [1]https://github.com/OpenHMD/OpenHMD-RiftPlayground
> On 31. Jul 2018, at 21:24, John Stone <[2]johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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>
> From: John Stone <[3]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][4]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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>
> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
>
> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
>
> [2][5]http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Phone: 217-244-3349
>
> [3][6]http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
>
> References
>
> Visible links
>
> 1. [7]https://github.com/OpenHMD/OpenHMD/wiki/Support-List
>
> 2. [8]http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/
>
> 3. [9]http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
>
> --
> NIH Center for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> [10]http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Phone: 217-244-3349
> [11]http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
>
> References
>
> Visible links
> 1. https://github.com/OpenHMD/OpenHMD-RiftPlayground
> 2. mailto:johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> 3. mailto:johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> 4. https://github.com/OpenHMD/OpenHMD/wiki/Support-List
> 5. http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/
> 6. http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
> 7. https://github.com/OpenHMD/OpenHMD/wiki/Support-List
> 8. http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/
> 9. http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
> 10. http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/
> 11. http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ 

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