So.. Meta has Meta Horizon OS, which feels quite inaccessible to non-corpos AFAIK, and now we have Android XR. Is it more accessible? I was working with Razer back in the day (as a third party contributor, not part of the team) for Razer OSVR and that was very exciting. They shut that down though.
So, what I'm asking is, could someone do the equivalent of the Open Source Laptop[1] but for XR?
We are currently trying to hack together something akin to what the AR glasses like Meta Orion and Snap Spectacles are trying to be in the future, but with tech that is available today, and by using a more limited use case of fitness.
What we are aiming for is a general compute puck + display glasses + added 6dof tracking.
In this video we tried the Nintendo Switch as the compute plus self tracked HTC Vive Ultimate trackers for the head tracking plus Viture Pro XR glasses:
https://youtube.com/shorts/U4vhEPQw-Uo
The Nintendo Switch was more a "can we do it" rather than a "that's what we should do" but it shows the overall idea
It is really fun experimenting in that space and it has completely sold me on the future of optical AR glasses, even though our current product is fully focused on VR/Passthrough MR
Update: ah, the source code is not really open:
> For full access to the Github repository please screenshot a receipt of your purchase along with your Github email and username and email it to ...
Also unsure if it's standalone or wired because it mentions it requires a launcher from Windows...
I've been waiting for some XR glasses with a VR level FOV. Really liked the Hololens 2, passthrough sucks by comparison. I'm probably going to stick to commercial projects that tend to be more polished. (had a bad experience with framework, which is halfway between). I've pre-ordered the Visor in the meantime and check https://vr-compare.com/ar every few months to see what new AR devices might be out there
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So.. Meta has Meta Horizon OS, which feels quite inaccessible to non-corpos AFAIK, and now we have Android XR. Is it more accessible? I was working with Razer back in the day (as a third party contributor, not part of the team) for Razer OSVR and that was very exciting. They shut that down though.
So, what I'm asking is, could someone do the equivalent of the Open Source Laptop[1] but for XR?
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42797260
We are currently trying to hack together something akin to what the AR glasses like Meta Orion and Snap Spectacles are trying to be in the future, but with tech that is available today, and by using a more limited use case of fitness.
What we are aiming for is a general compute puck + display glasses + added 6dof tracking.
In this video we tried the Nintendo Switch as the compute plus self tracked HTC Vive Ultimate trackers for the head tracking plus Viture Pro XR glasses: https://youtube.com/shorts/U4vhEPQw-Uo
The Nintendo Switch was more a "can we do it" rather than a "that's what we should do" but it shows the overall idea
Such an awesome project, thanks for sharing!
It is really fun experimenting in that space and it has completely sold me on the future of optical AR glasses, even though our current product is fully focused on VR/Passthrough MR
There are several open XR projects, here is one: https://gatlee21.github.io/TritonProject-Guide/
Wow, thank you, looks better than I expected!
Update: ah, the source code is not really open: > For full access to the Github repository please screenshot a receipt of your purchase along with your Github email and username and email it to ...
Also unsure if it's standalone or wired because it mentions it requires a launcher from Windows...
Still, cool.
I've been waiting for some XR glasses with a VR level FOV. Really liked the Hololens 2, passthrough sucks by comparison. I'm probably going to stick to commercial projects that tend to be more polished. (had a bad experience with framework, which is halfway between). I've pre-ordered the Visor in the meantime and check https://vr-compare.com/ar every few months to see what new AR devices might be out there
Here's another project with code apparently living on various branches: https://github.com/egemenertugrul/Wisor