The goal of this talk is to summarize the recent year of xrdesktop development and showcase capabilities for the upcoming 0.16 release.
A part of that will be our stand alone VR Wayland compositor wxrd, the virtual 3DUI keyboard with localization support and a focus on the industry standard OpenXR API.
I will show the ability of xrdesktop to display virtual environments and run on embedded...
Hand tracking will be as important for XR as the touchscreen is for mobile. It adds to the illusion of presence and provides the primary user input method. Ultraleap is a proud supporter of the FOSS movement, from providing FOSS plugins for Unity and Unreal to open sourcing the North Star headset. In this session we will cover the latest developments in Ultraleap's hand tracking, including how...
I'm a contributor to the Libre-SOC project, which aims to build a chip with lots of peripherals. And it's a VPU. And it's a 3D GPU powered by Vulkan so it could run Monado. By contrast mobile HMDs such as the Meta Quest use nonlibre SOCs such as the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2. A VR headset and its controllers also need tracking, in the case of the Valve Index this is implemented using a...
While Open Source software is generally straightforward to setup without capital, it's much more difficult to do so for hardware. There are a number of limitations that make large scale open source XR hardware challenging, like Minimum Order Quantities, NDA agreements for chip and component definitions, and the upfront cost of manufacturing, testing and shipping the finished products.
Led...
Over the past 3 years, I have been working on implementing positional tracking for Oculus Rift headsets. This talk will go through the Rift constellation system, and the differences between the older DK2/CV1 devices and the newer Rift S. It will touch on reverse engineering an unknown headset protocol, and what we understand of talking to Rift devices. Finally, I'll talk about progress on the...
Opengloves was previously a Windows only, OpenVR driver for DIY VR gloves. During my GSoC internship working on Monado, I ported the driver to Linux, making it compatible with OpenXR. Combined with hand tracking, the gloves also support force feedback, presenting unique challenges with implementing interfaces to handle new technologies.
Opengloves only handles controllers; presenting...
xrdesktop aims to provide an XR desktop experience not just on typical "VR ready" PCs but also on smaller systems.
What does it take to run xrdesktop's wxrd standalone client, or xrdesktop's gnome-shell, or kwin integration on a Nvidia Jetson board? On a Raspberry Pi?
After an overview over how xrdesktop implements taking windows into XR, this talk will present the solved and still open...
Following FOSSXR 2019 both XR and the Web evolved. The latest buzzword introduced in late 2021 seems like an intangible abstraction. What actually is the metaverse and why does the Web is the perfect place for it to start?
This talk will clarify what changed since 2019, both technically, software and hardware with a specific on FLOSS efforts, from all teams.
The goal is to highlight gaps...
