lwcode/osvr-vive-libre

Free Software OSVR Driver for the HTC Vive

OSVR-Vive-Libre

Upstream https://github.com/collabora/OSVR-Vive-Libre

A Free Software driver for OSVR that provides support for the HTC Vive headset without the need of proprietary software dependencies. Vive Libre is based on OpenHMD's Vive driver, LighthouseRedox and ouvrt and was developed at Collabora R&D.

Features

Currently Vive Libre provides basic IMU tracking support via the OSVR API. Lighthouse external tracking is WIP. Our efforts at analysing the Lighthouse signal can be found at vive-libre-analysis-and-data

Distribution

OSVR Vive Libre is available on the Arch User Repository. (AUR: osvr-vive-libre-git).

Dependencies

OSVR-Vive-Libre requires OSVR-Core, Eigen, OpenCV, jsoncpp, zlib and hidapi-libusb to be compiled.

Optional dependencies for testing are OSVR-Tracker-Viewer and OSVR-RenderManager.

Build

We use CMake

$ cmake .
$ make

Usage

vivectl

A tool to dump Vive raw sensor and config data, and send commands to the device.

$ vivectl -h

OSVR Server

You can run the OSVR Server with the provided config files or you can copy the file from /usr/share/osvrcore/sample-configs/ and edit it for your needs, like monitor settings.

Starting the OSVR server

$ osvr_server osvr_server_config.vive_libre.sample.json

Now you can see if the tacking works with the OSVR-Tracker-Viewer. (AUR: osvr-tracker-viewer-git)

$ OSVRTrackerView

You can also check out the OSVR-RenderManager demos. (AUR: osvr-rendermanager-git)

$ RenderManagerOpenGLExample

License

Vive Libre is licensed under the LGPLv3+.