Linux 'putting your money where your mouth is' thread...
So, the Linux 'nagging thread' has kind of dragged on for a while. Oculus has pledged Linux support, but given no ETA on when we'll see positional tracking supported for DK2. It could be this week. It could be months.
However, I think that sitting around and waiting for Oculus to solve the issue kind of goes against the spirit of Linux anyway. If you want something done, you should be willing to do it yourself. To that end, I'm working on porting the current 0.4.2 SDK to Linux. I've managed to reverse engineer some of the code required to interact with the LEDs so that they can be turned on. The camera is natively supported. Right now the primary missing component to getting this done is the software for calculating a head pose based on an image from the camera.
Unfortunately this kind of math is outside my field of expertise. So I'm putting a call out to the community to see if interested parties might be able to assist with this.
If you want a Linux SDK and don't want to wait for Oculus to get around to it, and you've got the skills, here's a video of them captured from the webcam on Linux:
You can download original file from here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Oculus/oculus_rift_leds.webm
If you can write C or C++ code that will take that video, or an image from that video, and turn it into a head pose, let me know and I'll work with it to produce a viable Linux SDK with positional tracking.
However, I think that sitting around and waiting for Oculus to solve the issue kind of goes against the spirit of Linux anyway. If you want something done, you should be willing to do it yourself. To that end, I'm working on porting the current 0.4.2 SDK to Linux. I've managed to reverse engineer some of the code required to interact with the LEDs so that they can be turned on. The camera is natively supported. Right now the primary missing component to getting this done is the software for calculating a head pose based on an image from the camera.
Unfortunately this kind of math is outside my field of expertise. So I'm putting a call out to the community to see if interested parties might be able to assist with this.
If you want a Linux SDK and don't want to wait for Oculus to get around to it, and you've got the skills, here's a video of them captured from the webcam on Linux:
You can download original file from here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Oculus/oculus_rift_leds.webm
If you can write C or C++ code that will take that video, or an image from that video, and turn it into a head pose, let me know and I'll work with it to produce a viable Linux SDK with positional tracking.