cupola

A Chrome packaged app using the USB API to expose Oculus Rift HMD head-tracking data to remote Web applications.

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What it is

A Chrome packaged app using the USB API to expose Oculus Rift HMD head-tracking data to remote Web applications.

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Dec 2	2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC	2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
Dec 9	2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC	2013-12-16 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 16	2013-12-16 00:00:00 UTC	2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 23	2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC	2013-12-30 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 30	2013-12-30 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-06 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
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Mar 17	2014-03-17 00:00:00 UTC	2014-03-24 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
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Apr 14	2014-04-14 00:00:00 UTC	2014-04-21 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Apr 21	2014-04-21 00:00:00 UTC	2014-04-28 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
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May 5	2014-05-05 00:00:00 UTC	2014-05-12 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
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Jun 23	2014-06-23 00:00:00 UTC	2014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jun 30	2014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC	2014-07-07 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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DanAndersen·Jul 2, 2014

This is pretty exciting stuff. Several months ago I had made a Chrome packaged app that used Chrome's USB API to get Rift orientation data ( https://github.com/DanAndersen/cupola ), but it's good to see work being done to integrate it into the browser itself instead of the hackish way I had to go about it.

In Bringing VR to Chrome

corysama·Mar 19, 2014

The Oculus SDK is C++, but I'm sure there are bindings for many languages. Probably the easiest way to get started is with C# in Unity. If anyone is feeling adventurous, you can even access it in JavaScript! https://github.com/DanAndersen/cupola

In New Oculus Rift dev kit goes on sale for $350 today, likely ships in July

DanAndersen·Dec 3, 2013

I found it useful to use Chrome's USB API to create a viewer to connect the Oculus Rift with remotely-hosted WebGL apps: https://github.com/DanAndersen/cupola It lets me feed in head-tracking data from the Rift, while avoiding the latency that you'd get from using something like WebSockets. I'd use something like vr.js, but that's an NPAPI plugin and Chrome is retiring those. Unfortunately Windows-only (and maybe Linux with some adjustment) so far, since the USB API doesn't yet properly work with HID devices on OSX.

In Google is building Chrome apps support for Android and iOS