Playing Elite with Google Cardboard

Calidus

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Kyokushin said:
You dont need a trinus, just opentrack and limelight, everything free - and it works better ;)
I will make tutorial for VR today/tomorrow with opentrack and limelight
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Did you ever make the tutorial?

I'm using limelight ant trackir, and the only two problems I have is that my trackIR seems jumpy, and I can't get a good resolution figured out for the game to run with the 3D/VR/limelight setup.

What resolution are you running the game at to make it look good and also have the proper aspect ratio?
 

BunBun

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Am at my wits end here trying to make my Occulus Thrift work, (Google Cardboard with NFC). So I have a galaxy note 3, opentrack, limelight and all hooked up via usb to my pc. Elite is being displayed on the phone...so far so good...screen side by side although the resolution is off(egg shaped planets) Then on top of that the image is upside down. This is the guide i followed;
https://github.com/opentrack/opentr...tion---google-cardboard,-colorcross,-opendive
Any idea what the heck i'm doing wrong?
 

Kyokushin

Kyokushin
As we said above, you need to set up custom resolution in system - 1920x2160 (perfect for your Note3), turn in game SBS mode and choose this custom resolution in game. Limelight will stretch image to correct proportions. Poits 4,5,6 in the tutorial.
 
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BunBun

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Well I figured out what the problem was, apparently the magnets or the cfc of google cardboard I was using was interfering with the tracking. Got a Colorcross on order to rectify that. The display issue was also resolved, I had to create a new custom resolution using the Nvidia Control panel ( Display/Change Resolution/Customize/Create Custom resolution. 1920 x 2160 did the trick. Thank you all for the help. I'm pleasantly surprised how well this works!
 

kenwshmt

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mlow said:
Before we get into why the oculus is better, I have seen and used apps that do FAR better streaming. Kinoni comes to mind, there is a lag sure, but it's butter smooth, the latency is like 100ms or less, which makes it not usable for VR, but it uses wifi only. Which gets me to the crux of the matter, with a usb tether is there no way to send a 1080p compressed video with latency closer to single digits and good quality without stutters?

Just curious why every one is doing this when it seems so bad to me, so laggy and jittery.
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The ap only worked briefly for me, and I wound up going to lower and lower qualities. it still stopped
I wound up using kinoni remote desktop, my track IR, and windowless gameing. http://www.kinoni.com/

It all works as well as it can.

my own difficulty with it is the phone, moto X, has a viewing angle, and the left side is decidedly brighter than the right just from the background. it kinda breaks the effect.

That being said, if you use the POT player, with 11:3 custom aspect ratio, you can run SBS HD stereo movies just fine to the phone. http://daumpotplayer.com/
 
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SnuggleViking

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I'm really glad I stumbled on this. Still not sure if I'm enough of a superfan of VR to make my hands disappear from my life altogether; this is a much more reasonable way to find out, than blowing several nice dinners' worth of money on a "maybe."

Repped.
 

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Hello people

I've been using a new headset as well as getting Limelight to work. I think that the Limelight streaming is *much* better than Trinus Gyre, especially paired together with my new Homido headset.

However, Limelight does not have headtracker built in. I could use my TrackIR, but Id rather use my Android gyroscope to control the mouse and use in-game mouse-look.

Problem is: I have been unable to find any gyro-based android mouse controller. Any ideas?
 
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Calidus

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Hello people

I've been using a new headset as well as getting Limelight to work. I think that the Limelight streaming is *much* better than Trinus Gyre, especially paired together with my new Homido headset.

However, Limelight does not have headtracker built in. I could use my TrackIR, but Id rather use my Android gyroscope to control the mouse and use in-game mouse-look.

Problem is: I have been unable to find any gyro-based android mouse controller. Any ideas?
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I am in the exact same situation.

My trackIR has issues tracking, and it is ruining my experience.

Are there any other head tracking options for limelight?
 

DrSarcasmo

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Use Trinus Gyre just for headtracking. You can turn off the video dispaly function in Trinus by selecting no video in the capture mode dialog. I use OpenTrack and it streams to Trinus, which then grabs the gyro data from your phone. So my setup is stream video from Limelight and stream sensor data from OpenTrack through Trinus Gyre. Works nicely!
 

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DrSarcasmo said:
Use Trinus Gyre just for headtracking. You can turn off the video dispaly function in Trinus by selecting no video in the capture mode dialog. I use OpenTrack and it streams to Trinus, which then grabs the gyro data from your phone. So my setup is stream video from Limelight and stream sensor data from OpenTrack through Trinus Gyre. Works nicely!
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This sounds very interesting! I honestly didnt know Trinus had that feature! If I read you correctly, then you could use either Trinus mouse look feature OR OpenTrack as a "regular" headtracking device? I always though OpenTrack was dependant on a webcam.
 

bad-r0bot

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I give up :p It doesn't see 1920x2160 and setting it to 960x1080 instead doesn't help. The image on my phone is just such a bad quality. So instead of SBS view, I'll just use headtracking so I can still have something useful.

edit: It kind of worked with my Nexus 4 but the OnePlus One is too big for the standard cardboard thing. Maybe I'll just borrow a PS3 eyetoy and see how that works.
 

Kyokushin

Kyokushin
Nexus 4 has only 720p screen, it is similar to DK1 - quality is not for gaming, fun only. ONeplus ONe - Colorcross gogles should be fine (cardboards are too small), quality will be near DK2.
960x1080p on nexus 4 will be fine as 1920x2160, because it have 720p only.
1920x2160 you need to set for Oneplusone (1080p screen) to have higher quality.

Instead of ps3 eye try to headtracking via smartphone (my signature). It works better.
 
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