WARNING PROJECT NOT YET IN EXPERIMENTAL PHASE
First livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv_AVI9kHN4
Second livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFyEbGQ88s4
Notes from second livestream trying to reverse engineer the watchman protocol: https://gist.github.com/cnlohr/581c433f36f4249f8bbc9c2b6450ef0e
High-performance HTC Vive Library
I say "high-performance" really this project is based tightly off of OSVR-Vive-Libre, but, specifically is an attempt to:
- Minimize external libraries. Actual reason for starting this: Downloading all of the libraries needed for OSVR-Vive-Libre maxed out my data plan.
- Put it under an open-source instead of a force-source license. (GPL to MIT/X11)
- Write it in C.
- Avoid extra layers where convenient.
- (long shot) Make the vive vivable for use with Intel Integrated Graphics systems.
Will I succeed? Probably not.
Definitely going to try!
- libUSB
- pthread
- (planned, may not be needed) lapack
If I ever get to video output... OpenGL.
There is an internal representation and an external representation. These lines may get blurred. Internal representation lives in .h files in the src/ folder. External lives in include/ folder.
It is written in some fairly stout "layers" which are basically just function calls:
| Layer | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| survive_usb.c | Data is taken in at "survive_usb.c" from libusb. | Done |
| survive_data.c | Raw HID messages are processed into logical "light" "analog" and "imu" messages. | Mostly done, Missing light data from controllers, and lighthouse data. |
| survive_process.c | Process the high-level data into solutions for | Not yet started. Will be done by ultramn |
I may or may not read data from the Vive regarding configuration. If I do, it would be added to the survive_usb.c