[ANSWERED] Oculus and Isadora

[Skulpture]

All I can find out is:

"the Rift runs at 2160×1200 at 90Hz split over dual displays, consuming 233 million pixels per second."

Source: https://www.oculus.com/en-us/blog/powering-the-rift/ 

[Fred]

You may be able to do this (get an image that kind of fits the screen) but you will not get the rotation of the head that is the whole point of VR...playing a flat video is possible with normal video glasses at a fraction of the price. There are also plenty of stereoscopic ones.

The DK2 is a 1920*1080 display and has refresh options of 60 or 70hz. 

Note oculus recent software update leans toward not letting the screen be seen as a display to the OS, but controlling directly from the video card hardware. This mode is implemented in Win systems. OSX development has been frozen for some time but will follow suit. This gives much better images and response times.

You will have a loot of trouble filming with 2 cameras and getting good 3d in the rift.

You may have better luck using 2 points of view of a 3d scene as much of the rift work does, if you get the offset between the perspectives correct you will get good 3d.

To use the oculus for your own use at the moment you will need to write code or use vvvv

[keftaparty]

Agree with Fred,

you can check the link :

http://vvvv.org/contribution/oculus-rift-dk2-0

[Armando]

mmmm.... it sounds like for video it needs a custom plugin. But what about izzy 3d? It looks like setting 2 virtual stages with the right distance cameras and mapping them to one stage through izzymap could do the trick isn't it?

I don't have an oculus yet but I can sent the image to the phone and my google cardboard.... I'll try

[Fred]

Sending to google cardboard over tcp will be a lot easier. The cardboard framework takes care of the subtle optical distortion and colour convergence adjustments needed to make the image look ok that close. The oculus does this too, but it is done with shaders as part of the pipeline in the SDK.

The vvvv implementation is great.

[RIL]

Hi everyone! I wanted to know if there's been any progress on this topic... 

How to integrate the Oculus image, or other virtual reality hardware, into Isadora. Or any similar new experiences or aproaches

Thanks a lot! Best,

Maxi-RIL

[Woland]

@ril

I've been sending NDI to Unreal Engine to work with one of Meta's headsets for a project, but we're just displaying 2d content on flat surfaces within a 3D environment created within Unreal for that.

[RIL]

@woland Thanks !

And what about the opposite way..? To get some of what the Oculus user is seeing?

Best,

Maxi-RIL

[Woland]

@ril

You'd need the VR software to output a video stream that you can pick up in Isadora.

If Isadora and the VR software are on the same computer, output a Spout video feed from the VR software and pick it up in Isadora using the Spout Receiver actor by choosing the video stream from the list of sources on that actor.

If Isadora and the VR software are on different computers, output an NDI video feed from the VR software and pick it up in Isadora using the NDI Watcher actor by choosing the video stream from the list of sources on that actor.

[RIL]

@woland thanks !

Best,

Maxi-RIL