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OpenVR SDK

17 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 1 story, 16 comments · first 2015-04-30 · latest 2019-11-21

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  1. …it, while the controller's cameras are looking for the lighthouse's lights to track themselves. [0] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr
    comment by ihuman · 2019-11-21 · in Half-Life: Alyx
  2. …below. [1] https://keithp.com/blogs/DRM-lease/ [2] https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula [3] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr
  3. …also has a pretty good minimal Vulkan + OpenVR example in the OpenVR SDK called hellovr_vulkan ( https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr/blob/master/samples/... ). On HN this might be attractive because people tend to complain about…
    comment by Impossible · 2017-08-25 · in Beginners Guide to Vulkan
  4. I was thinking why they didn't just go with OpenVR, but looks like valve already used that name. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr
  5. Replying to myself, it seems it doesn't work well, yet, but they're working on it https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr/issues/213#issuecomm...
  6. …use DX12 instead of Vulkan, it would be still much better than previous versions of DX and OGL. [0] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr
  7. That middleware exists: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr It supports both the Vive and the Rift, though I believe the Rift implementation is just a wrapper around Oculus' own SDK.
    comment by jmgrosen · 2016-06-21 · in A Third of Valve Is Now Working on VR
  8. …You can make a competing store in a tab alongside steam, or replace the Steam VR overlay entirely: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr/wiki/IVROverlay_Over...
  9. Also don't miss the Valve OpenVR SDK, here's their "hello world" sample: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr/tree/master/samples/... if you want something a bit more low-level than Unity. There was one tiny change I had to make, change…
  10. Does OpenVR require runtime? It's pretty confusing: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr This repository is an SDK that contains the API and samples. The runtime is under SteamVR in Tools on Steam. It sounds tied to Steam. Or it can…
  11. …Playstation VR is obviously Playstation-only. Make your purchasing decisions accordingly. [1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr
    comment by coldpie · 2016-03-03 · in TiltBrush by Google
  12. …Anyone can implement a driver, they have example driver code available. The documentation is here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr/wiki The purpose of OpenVR is to create a common API for HMD drivers, so that other platforms can…
  13. …really do wish there was more official word about this. I've emailed gaben but no response yet. [0] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr
  14. …licensed[1]. Anyone can use it, it is just not some consortium standard, but anyone can fork it. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr
  15. …build a mobile os for vr. [0] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/01/2016-google-tracker-e... [1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr [2] https://github.com/OculusVR/RiftDK1 [3] https://github.com/OSVR/OSVR-Core [4]…
  16. What about the Vive and OpenVR? https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr
    comment by Alphasite_ · 2015-10-16 · in The porn industry is in a bind