VMD-L Mailing List

From: Philip Loche (ploche_at_physik.fu-berlin.de)
Date: Tue Jul 31 2018 - 15:24:46 CDT

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] https://github.com/OpenHMD/OpenHMD-RiftPlayground

> On 31. Jul 2018, at 21:24, John Stone <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
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> 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
>>
>> --
>> NIH Center for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
>> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
>> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
>> [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/
>
> --
> NIH Center for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Phone: 217-244-3349
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/