VR Motion Cancellation - Time to test!

The rift camera is passive whereas the vive basestation is active with sub millimeter precision mechanical laser emitters. Exposing that to the vibrations of a motion rig is a recipe for disaster.

I think the best vive solution is to mount the tracker rigidly enough to avoid any play while still isolating it sufficiently to avoid it vibrating excessively. The best rift solution... dare I say it... buy a vive! It doesn’t look like oculus care to much about adding motion cancellation.

Good to know! Looks like I'll have to go the Vive route or wait for the Pimax 8k

I wont try to mount the base stations on the rig, its not required.
The current set up is working, the anti vibration plate will be for the Tracker, if it helps that is, I will try.
Could you please look at my settings and give advice on whether they are working in Harmony or conflicting, everything feels ok its just I don't know myself and would like some guidance and reassurance for the longevity of the motors and parts.
The above post (407) has the video of how the rig is moving with these settings.

I have a Vive Pro. Can you provide the steps you followed in setting this up? I have the Vive tracker mounted on the back of my chair.

Yes no problem, if helps people get a better experience and really be able to push their hardware, then Great.
I've been waiting for this to come along, when I bought my motion sim I always had in the back of my mind it would be possible.
I'm doing a guide and it will be ready in a while, with pictures and screen shots.

HTC Vive - Vive Pro VR Motion Cancellation Setup Guide.

HTC Vive - Vive Pro VR Motion Cancellation Setup Guide.
PDF version

A big thank you! This is wonderful work.

A question, so you first need to install OpenVR and set it up for the Tracker correct? Then using the guide you can configure for games? Does this have to be done for each game when you want cancellation

Yes install first as guide says, Then for each time you use it you have to apply the settings in the guide, unfortunately they dont save or default back to the last ones you used. Once you get use to it takes literality no time, I do mine in 20 seconds, its done.

For what it's worth the Vive tracker (2018 model) is supposed to work while plugged into USB, at least according to the manual. I haven't even done the wireless setup on mine and have only ever used a wired connection.

That said, it seems to be very finicky about the USB connection. On multiple occasions I'd get everything set up and tracking but the moment I started driving the tracker would immediately (and consistently) disappear from SteamVR. When this happened, getting it to show up again could be an ordeal.

As I recall, I moved it from a USB 3 hub shared with a bunch of other gear to its own port attached to a motherboard header, and that seemed to help.

I'm finding with the tracker that if I have the USB plugged in for charging and switch it on once steam VR is loaded it wont track,
I always leave it unplugged an its fine, never lost racking so far and I have done loads of races now,
once it is tracking I can plug in the USB for charging and it stays stable and tracks no problem.

Would it be possible for someone to post a step by step guide for setting up motion cancellation using an Oculus Rift for those of us new to this type of software and hardware (maybe similar to what is shown above for the HTC Vive) A video would be even better. So far I have been able to determine that I need to download OpenVR (done) and then remove the sensor from my rig and mount the right touch controller to the back of my chair. Quite frankly after that I am completely lost as far as setting up the software and making games like iRacing that are not run through Steam work. There are obviously some very smart people on this forum who have a much deeper understanding of the intricacies of these platforms. If you could step it out for those of us that are brand new to the world it would be greatly appreciated.

As far as I know (someone correct me if this has changed) motion cancellation still doesn't work properly for Oculus Rift. I switched to a Vive back around Christmas and am very happy. Only problem now is I'm ready to play Dirt Rally again and there is still no SteamVR support! =( I'm pretty sure if I run through ReVive I will have the same issues with motion compensation as running it on a Rift but I may try it just to be sure.

I got an email from nextlevelracing stating that VRHeadway works with the Oculus runtime. This is completely counter to everything else I’ve read regarding manipulating oculus sensor data at the driver level. Does anyone know how they are doing it?

FeelThree have said they are waiting on new software from Oculus for their motion rig. We will no more later today when their kickstarter launches. Hey @Trip Rodriguez have you been moonlighting for feelthree? This looks a lot like your goatee man lol

LMAO, it does look like me a bit.

I actually got Dirt Rally working via ReVive (but not running the Oculus runtime) using this guide https://github.com/LibreVR/Revive/issues/887 Scroll down about halfway and start with Raffi100 's list of steps, but read down farther before starting. I installed Oculus Home, copied the two DLL's, then uninstalled Oculus home and followed the rest of the instructions and it's running just as perfectly as I would expect if it was native. Motion compensation working absolutely flawless as well! Then I got myself a bit motion sick working on tuning a profile LOL.

Trip - a while back you mentioned you were able to get the Oculus to work by moving the cameras up to eye level, and closer to your face. Is this still working? It seems Vive is the better option, but I can't really switch as I just shelled out a couple thousand on the motion rig itself (and have been unable to use it do to the oculus issues)

So guys it seems it’s possible to run two oculus applications at the same time with the oculus runtime. It’s possible to make one of them invisible, it’s also possible to call the tracking data in the hidden app, manipulate it and then have that manipulated data passed to the second app. See where I’m going with this

Do we have any rift owners in the group who are familiar with the Oculus SDK and willing to do some coding? It could even be incorporated into simtools.