VR Motion Cancellation - Time to test!

=O If you are on the right trail there you will be a hero to a lot of motion sim owners!

I'm afraid I have no skills to help with this whatsoever but it sure would be a boon to the community to get Oculus motion compensation working.

Did we not get any more info on the FeelThree software with the kickstarter launch?

The Oculus solution was never near perfect (no compensation) but it was usable for a while a long time back. Changes to the Oculus SDK made it much worse and as far as I know it's still pretty bad. About the only thing you can do for now I'd say is mount the camera off the sim and set up your motion sim to use small angles (and maybe very small translations if you have them) with quick movements so there isn't that much motion to cause errors. It would be better than nothing.

Feelthree is launching without support for the oculus runtime. See the kickstarter page for more details.

I lack the coding skill to make this idea work but hope some members here with programming experience would be willing to give it a try.

There is a programmer on the Oculus forums who has agreed to take a look at motion cancellation using the method I mentioned earlier. Some progress from him:

“I was just playing around a bit with my Injector project (instead of doing actual work I was supposed to be doing).
The following little script will use the right touch controller as a motion rig tracker, cancelling out it's rotation from the headset. Tested on my office chair (which can lean back and turn).
(Not doing position cancellation yet, but that's not hard either)
function HookGetTrackingState(time, latency)
state = ovr_GetTrackingState(time, latency)
state.HeadPose.ThePose.Orientation = state.HandPoses[1].ThePose.Orientation:conjugate() * state.HeadPose.ThePose.Orientation
return state
end
On the monitor, it works correctly (I'm testing with Google Earth, that's my standard test program for this stuff), I can spin around and tilt but it looks like I'm staying still if my head matches the touch controller. Yay.
However all is not well at the moment. Timewarp is getting confused.
The problem is Time Warp knows the true headset orientation instead of the fake value I'm giving to Google Earth. Time warp also knows the headset orientation when tracking was last read. When submitting the frame to the runtime, earth says the fake value. Timewarp sees that and thinks "Wow, the current tracking is way off from when you rendered, I'd better rotate the view to compensate". So the view drifts off as a floating quad.
Have you ever seen a game where a freeze from loading stuff makes the screen kind of detach from the headset and you see the edges? That's timewarp trying to fix things.
Sadly timewarp is forced on, there's no way to stop it. But if I can hide the fake orientation from it, it should be ok. I've tried intercepting the submitframe call to modify it's layer data (the layer is where you tell the sdk which head orientation you rendered with), but it's still not working. I need to intercept a few more things to see what's going on.
Interestingly, while looking at this I noticed the Oculus Debug Tool has a new field: Pose Injection. Turning it on makes the headset and touch controllers all move to a fixed position facing forwards with no tracking. I can't find any docs on what this is intended for (it looks like it's part of runtime 1.30, but the latest sdk is still 1.26).
So that's a little hacking I did today. I REALLY need to get back to actual work for the next 2 days.”

Hopefully he is successful.

Send the guy some HUGE appreciation from everyone here for doing this investigation. @traveltrousers - you reading this?

Hopefully he can make some more progress as many of us would love to have this.... unless the Berlin backers meetup says that the latest Pimax 8k is a winner. News due at 4pm Berlin time today.

He’s posting on the feelthree thread on the Oculus forum. Maybe a few here could give him some words of encouragement and support. The big fear is that if successful this gets snapped up by a commercial producer and us DIYers are left in the lurch again.

From the Oculus forum:

https://forums.oculusvr.com/communi...otion-simulator-update-launch-incoming#latest

“
So... done it.

I've now got the Oculus Tiny World demo working with the right touch cancelling my office chair rotation. Time warp has been tamed.
The code is pretty horrible at the moment, hacks upon hacks upon hacks, in thousands of lines of C++, so you can write a 5 line lua script. I mean, right now even the vr executable that you want to apply this to is hard coded.
So it needs a LOT of work, but the test succeeded.
Turns out a lot of the trouble I've had was because I was testing with Google Earth (it starts pretty fast, has touch controls, etc, seemed like a good test). It was built with an ancient oculus sdk, a bunch of data structures it uses are now different sizes (for example the current ovrLayerHeader is 128 bytes bigger than when Google Earth was built).
Now I REALLY need to get back to real work. ”

Words of encouragement provided. Come on folks lets give Kojack some love on the Oculus forum !

Hi, I have read a lot of pages of this thread, but not all of them, sorry. This motion cancelation works with windows MR like Samsung Oddysey??. Now I have Oculus CV1, but I´m thinkng about change to WMR.

Thanks in advance

Ok, i'm sorry. You are right. We can talk about that in the other thread.

Best regards

Thank you for this thread! Really helpful!

IMHO, oculus using proprietary driver has not much future for us DIYers. The workaround is time consuming because any major update of the oculus driver will mess up the workaround. I think we should look for openVR and there are many choices now - vive, pimax, the more expensive starvr, hopefully more in the future. I own an oculus rift but i hope they will adopt openVR. I am waiting for pimax retail launch.

Hi

I'm now trying to use two vive trackers for the Motion Cancellation just to see if it can help improve more.
It seems in the open Vr settings you can only select one tracker at a time and apply the settings, every time I go and do the second tracker and apply the settings, when I look back at the first its back to default and lost its settings.
I don't seem to be able to save.

Any ideas?

im just catching up on this thread...
im new to motion platforms..and to the forums
seems like u can get away from motion cancellation for 2 Dof Setups..
when is motion cancellation absolutly needed? 3Dof, 6Dof Setups?
i guess it depends on the game... :/

I don't believe, that is possible with that used algorithm. That is why the tool don't let you do this. But frankly... i not really think, that is much helpful, to use two reference points.

i have the rift and 2 dof. i use it every time i go into Pcars2 .i gotta say this is interesting to me BUT im not exactly sure? what is it that it does? motion canceling?

Oh well , not a big deal. thanks for the input.