- controller buttons are currently unimplemented and pressing any button does nothing
- controller models - OpenHMD doesn't provide a method (yet) to get rendermodels, so default (Steam Gamepad controller) is used
- Controllers are not used by default because of those limitations. To change the default you can use the config file mechanism (on Linux) or change the default config in ohmd_config.h in the else branch (index 2 and 3 are controllers) before compiling
Possible improvements:
- updating tracking data asynchronously in a separate thread might improve smoothness (if there is a problem)
- feeding vector acceleration values to SteamVR? Would that improve tracking or make OpenHMD's tracking worse?
cd subprojects/openhmd
git pull origin master
git clone --recursive https://github.com/ChristophHaag/SteamVR-OpenHMD.git
cd SteamVR-OpenHMD
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
OpenHMD is included as a git submodule. An OpenHMD shared library will be built first and the steamvr plugin will link to the OpenHMD library built in build/external/openhmd/libopenhmd.so. If you want to package the SteamVR plugin, make sure you have libopenhmd.so in your library search path or package the openhmd library too and change the rpath.
If you use the Vive and want to use the (imperfect) values from OpenHMD/OpenHMD#90, go to external/openhmd and run git pull origin pull/90/head before the make step to merge the pull request locally.
Run ./register.sh.
This overwrites SteamVR's settings with a steamvr.vrsettings that disables all SteamVR hardware plugins that ship with SteamVR (Vive lighthouse, Oculus, etc). The current SteamVR config will be backed up to steamvr-config-backup/. Then it registers the current build directory as a SteamVR plugin.
To do the reverse, run ./unregister.sh.
First register the driver with SteamVR:
~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamVR/bin/linux64/vrpathreg adddriver ~/SteamVR-OpenHMD/build
The directory given to vrpathreg should contain driver.vrdrivermanifest, resources/ and bin/linux64/driver_openhmd.so.
If you use a HMD for which SteamVR already has a plugin (currently Vive and Oculus Rift), copy the steamvr.vrsettings file that disables those plugins into Steam's config directory.
cp ~/SteamVR-OpenHMD/steamvr.vrsettings ~/.local/share/Steam/config/steamvr.vrsettings
Don't forget to make a backup if you have special SteamVR settings.
Now run SteamVR and check ~/.local/share/Steam/logs/vrserver.txt for errors.
git clone --recursive https://github.com/ChristophHaag/SteamVR-OpenHMD.git
cd SteamVR-OpenHMD
docker.sh
This will create a docker container running the same GCC as Steam uses, so the driver will be compatible with Steam runtime libstdc++ library.
The script docker.sh will create the container, build the driver, register it with steam (using vrpathreg adddriver as described above) and, if the build is successful, it launches steamVR using STEAM_RUNTIME_PREFER_HOST_LIBRARIES=0 so Steam uses it's own runtime environment to run steamVR.
This method is simpler to build the driver and builds a driver fully compatible with the steam runtime, no matter the distro you're running. You just need to have Docker installed!
Upstream pull request to follow: OpenHMD/OpenHMD#8
For now. $HOME/.ohmd_config.txt is used.
Example content for a HMD 0, nolo HMD tracker 1, nolo controllers 2 and 3:
hmddisplay 0
hmdtracker 1
leftcontroller 2
rightcontroller 3
or a single HMD 0 with no controllers
hmddisplay 0
hmdtracker 0
leftcontroller -1
rightcontroller -1
This defines 4 openhmd devices.
- hmdddisplay is opened for the display config. Choose this for the actual HMD like Vive, Oculus Rift, etc.
- hmdtracker is opened for tracking the head. Choose a different index than the HMD if you have a NOLO tracker (or in the future a Vive tracker).
- leftcontroller and rightcontroller are the indices for the controllers. There are no separate trackers for controllers for now but it's easy to hack in.
If the config file is not available (probably only works on linux), default values are used. Change them in ohmd_config.h.