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Feature Request: 3D Support for VR

2014-04-09
2014-06-19
  • Sewers Forger

    Sewers Forger - 2014-04-09

    Hi there,

    i have recently used a combination of Milkdrop(Winamp), TriDef3d(makes MilkDrop 3D), Kainy(Stream from PC - to Android), my Galaxy S4 Mini and the Durovis Dive(Use your Smart-phone as VR screen) to Stream MilkDrop in 3D to my VR Headset. I think you could make that process much easier if you added 3D support to the Android version of your Software. Also it would be nice if you implemented a look-around Feature(Motion sensors enabled, Visualization all around you).

    I think Visualization in Virtual Reality might be quite successful in the future, with VR becoming more and more popular.

    Greetings

     
    • Carmelo Piccione

      Not a terrible idea, do you have a developer's perspective on how this
      should be implemented?

      On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 6:28 AM, Sewers Forger sewersforger@users.sf.netwrote:

      Hi there,

      i have recently used a combination of Milkdrop(Winamp), TriDef3d(makes
      MilkDrop 3D), Kainy(Stream from PC - to Android), my Galaxy S4 Mini and the
      Durovis Dive(Use your Smart-phone as VR screen) to Stream MilkDrop in 3D to
      my VR Headset. I think you could make that process much easier if you added
      3D support to the Android version of your Software. Also it would be nice
      if you implemented a look-around Feature(Motion sensors enabled,
      Visualization all around you).

      I think Visualization in Virtual Reality might be quite successful in the
      future, with VR becoming more and more popular.

      Greetings

      Feature Request: 3D Support for VRhttps://sourceforge.net/p/projectm/discussion/358773/thread/723d087a/?limit=25#824b

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  • Sewers Forger

    Sewers Forger - 2014-04-12

    I guess you "just" have to render another view/camera from a slightly different angle so that you have an image for each eye(That is only for the 3D Version,without Head Movement).

    There are a few resources on how you can use the head-tracking at the Durovis Dive Homepage(http://www.durovis.com/sdk.html) but i do not have any experience with that matter.

    My (3D) programming skills are also quiet limited. So i might be misunderstanding what you mean by "developer's perspective".

     
  • Charlson Kim

    Charlson Kim - 2014-06-19

    i am also interested in 3D output.

    without any knowledge of the code, my guess is that most of the visualizations have a depth field (a 'z' coordinate in addition to the display coordinate 'x' and 'y'). It certainly looks like they do. Then i think it is 'just' a matter of calling the <OpenGL_3D_View> function instead of the usual <View> (not sure what the specific function names are) and setting a few additional parameters, e.g. view separation or something like it, probably assume fixed view.

    i imagine that VR should also be as 'straightforward', much of the hard work being done by the backend developers.

    If the visualization data is 3D, i.e. expressed as a function of 3 coordinates (x,y,z) (e.g. Color(x,y,z) for (x,y,z):=[1:mx,1:my,1:mz])then a change in calls to OpenGL view functions should do the trick.

    after a glance at the code, seems a new Renderer library would be need based on 3D output instead of 2Dtextures, maybe 3Dtextures?

     

    Last edit: Charlson Kim 2014-06-19

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