[Paraview] Oculus Rift

[Nikhil Shetty]

Yes totally agree. Its going to be interesting.


On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Brian Corrie <bcorrie at sfu.ca> wrote:

> It appears to me that the biggest issue in supporting the Oculus Rift
> would be that they use an optical distortion for the left and right eye (to
> achieve a bit of a fish eye type effect). Thus I don't think just
> displaying a left/right eye view (like one does now with Paraview on flat
> screen stereo displays) would be sufficient. It seems like you need to go
> through their API for the distortion...
>
> Integrating their head tracking into Paraview might be a bit tricky as
> well...
>
> Brian
>
>
> On 04/04/2013 9:16 AM, Aashish Chaudhary wrote:
>
>> Hi Stephan,
>>
>> The currently we assume that screens are fixed in space and therefore
>> supports, systems like caves, walls etc. I think it will be easy to
>> implement
>> (or update the code for HMD). If there is an interest we could support
>> it technically by providing you info on current implementation over
>> emails.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Nikhil Shetty <nikhil.shetty at kitware.com
>> <mailto:nikhil.shetty at kitware.**com <nikhil.shetty at kitware.com>>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi Stephan,
>>
>>     There is a CAVE module in PV but I'm not sure how good it should be
>>     for an HMD. Long ago I had written PVJuggler module which enables PV
>>     for Immersive environments using VRJuggler. VRJuggler can be
>>     configured for HMD. So it should work but I havnt tested it on the
>>     RIft (still waiting for it to show up at my door :) )
>>
>>     -Nikhil
>>
>>
>>     On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Stephan Rogge
>>     <Stephan.Rogge at tu-cottbus.de <mailto:Stephan.Rogge at tu-**cottbus.de<Stephan.Rogge at tu-cottbus.de>
>> >>
>>     wrote:
>>
>>         Hello,____
>>
>>         __ __
>>
>>
>>         we’ve just ordered an Oculus Rift device and can’t wait to get
>>         our hands on it. Until we can dive into this immersive
>>         experience we wonder whether OR is supported by ParaView / VTK?
>>         Before we start to think about adopting VTK-code pieces we would
>>         like to know if anybody else is preparing PV for the HMD.____
>>
>>         __ __
>>
>>         Cheers,____
>>
>>         Stephan____
>>
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