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> The main thing we wish Hydra did out-of-the-box is interact with the HTC Vive. We're looking into how to get VR rendering with Hydra and nVidia's dual-GPU VR
by mncharity 10y ago
> The main thing we wish Hydra did out-of-the-box is interact with the HTC Vive. We're looking into how to get VR rendering with Hydra and nVidia's dual-GPU VR extension. It may be necessary to do this on Windows, unfortunately.
If you can create a simple fullscreen window with a stereo pair (no lens correction needed), then you can drive a Vive on linux.[0] It's not something you'd want to upstream to Hydra, but it makes for a surprisingly nice quick-and-dirty placeholder.
[0] https://github.com/mncharity/node-webvr-alt-stack https://github.com/mncharity/node-webvr-alt-stack (disclaimer:author)
And FWIW, http://idav.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/Vrui/ http://idav.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/Vrui/ is said to also have some support for Vive on linux.