danielr2e/worldwind-vr

This repository houses a modification to NASA worldwind with Virtual Reality capabilities.

worldwind-vr

This repository houses a modification to NASA worldwind with Virtual Reality capabilities.

WorldWindVR - A Virtual Reality Implementation for NASA WorldWind

The most recent distribution can currently be downloaded from:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ihe3ton0n0laqlu/WorldWindVR.zip

====Running====

To run WorldWindVR, simply double click RunWorldWindVR.exe or RunWorldWindVR.bat. It has been tested so far only on Windows, under both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Java (only tested with 1.6, but 1.5 may work). Mac and Linux support are conceivable, but we are waiting for someone to implement a nice wrapper for the Oculus Rift API on those platforms.

====Setting Custom Locations====

If you'd like to visit a specific location, you can add a description along with it's coordinates to the file locations.txt. It will then be added to a list of locations which you can switch between using the space bar.

====Controls====

Arrow Keys: Movement Space Bar: Switches between a set of neat locations Escape: Exits the application Mouse: Mouse look has not yet been integrated, so you can only look around with the rift itself

Note that the first time you visit a new location, it takes a while for imagery data to load and cache, but when you visit the same location later the imagery will usually be present from the get go (including if you exit the application and run WorldWindVR at a later date).

====Pre-caching imagery data====

WorldWindVR is a bit bland until the high resolution imagery loads, so if this is your first time running, consider checking the 'Start in Imagery Pre-cache Mode' option in the launch dialog and letting it run for 5-15 minutes. It will automatically survey the locations in locations.txt, prompting the imagery for those locations to load. Once the data is cached, it will be there the next time you start WorldWindVR.

==== Acknowledgements ====

Thanks are due to the following people:

• 38leinaD for his JRift project as well as the original LWJGL shader (which we adapted for JOGL and without which we would have been hopelessly lost, as we had no prior 3D graphics experience)
• The Minecrift guys (mabrowning et. al) for updating JRift to work with the latest Rift SDK
• NASA and its WorldWind development team
• Palmer and everyone at Oculus VR for this amazing device and toolkit

worldwind-vr's Issues

everything after fb16859 fails to compile?

I noticed that you had some commits after fb16859 that no longer compile:

VRHudLayer is not defined anywhere. As such, we're branching off of fb16859.

Cannot find "com.tuohy.worldwindvr.WorldWindVR"

Sorry to pester but I REALLY want to play this demo. I'm running Java 1.7 on Windows 64bit machine (Vista) and I am getting this message when running the .bat or when I paste that command straight into the console:

Could not find or load main class com.tuohy.worldwindvr.WorldWindVR

Separating Oculus View from Controls

Daniel,
Long time no talk! :-) I don't know if you remember me, but I was curious if you had continued any development with the Oculus and/or WorldWind? I just recently picked this project back up for work and I was finally able to get the java project to run and using the goggles. I am trying to wrap my head around how I might be able to separate the Oculus view movement from the keyboard direction keys. Basically, I want the goggles to be used to look around but not affect the direction of the movement when the keys are pressed on the keyboard. I am an experienced developer, but more in the Visual Studio C# arena and not so much in the OpenGL 3D field. Not to mention, it seems you have done quite a bit of work building the code to use the goggles and have a decent understanding of 3D concepts. I was hoping you might be able to point me to where in the code you think I can do that.

Thanks,
Eric