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Oculus Input Emulator for Selfmade Rifts?
Hey, I wanted to ask if theres any way to emulate a plugged in Oculus Rift, so I can try oculus built software like Museum of the Microstar, RiftCoaster and so on. I do have two selfmade Rifts u...
There are lots of projects on the web for using an embedded processor as a HID keyboard emulator. One of those could be modified to emit HID packets as required by the OculusVR SDK.
There are also posts at MTBS3D about writing Rift DK EDID data to a I2C serial EEPROM memory device and it was correctly identified as a Rift DK video monitor. But many microprocessors also have I2C and could possibly provide both HID and EDID data, if required.
Although possible to make a software-only HID emulator, it would probably need a digital signature, and even if not, it would be a complex and tedious task, which may be of limited use.
It may be simpler to make your DIY Rift act like an Oculus Tracker DK device. You could patch and recompile the SDK if needed, and you could even add support for other devices. The newer Apache license may allow that, but for personal use (that you do not distribute), licenses and Terms of Service are less of an issue.
None of these options are as simple as tracking down a software package and installing it. Sorry about that, but Real Life is not always easy.
There are also posts at MTBS3D about writing Rift DK EDID data to a I2C serial EEPROM memory device and it was correctly identified as a Rift DK video monitor. But many microprocessors also have I2C and could possibly provide both HID and EDID data, if required.
Although possible to make a software-only HID emulator, it would probably need a digital signature, and even if not, it would be a complex and tedious task, which may be of limited use.
It may be simpler to make your DIY Rift act like an Oculus Tracker DK device. You could patch and recompile the SDK if needed, and you could even add support for other devices. The newer Apache license may allow that, but for personal use (that you do not distribute), licenses and Terms of Service are less of an issue.
None of these options are as simple as tracking down a software package and installing it. Sorry about that, but Real Life is not always easy.