RT to VR

[3LP]

Hey guys,
I was wondering if there was a way to get VR straight away from within RT.
I have to place loads of cams in few different 360 projects.
So I'd like to be able to load RT, and either have RT display it in straight in a sphere where I can view around, or even better, push it straight to oculus (in stereo or not)

The main purpose is to avoid saving the render every 10 seconds and load it in a external software to view the pano and make sure it works

you know, those : "10 cm more to the left, push down now, no sorry go back up" etc
The 360x180 spherical or cubemap doesn't make much sense in RT ATM.

Thanks
Stan

[vlado]

Well, we did a connection to the Oculus as a test in the summer, but it tended to look somewhat weird as the noise cleaned up. We can get back to that if there is interest.

Best regards,
Vlado

[3LP]

Whaaat,
Yes for sure, I'd love that!

If you do have a spare version containing that connection laying around, I'd be glad to give it a shot

although for production needs, it might be easier to have the VFB showing the unwrapped 360 as you would in any pano and let you turn around. At least you would have real time feedback of all the VFB adjustements and you would still see your mouse/keyboard/screen to work.
In the end, it would also be used to RT on regions where you pan around, crop render, adjusts, pan crop render, adjust, etc

Thanks
Stan

[AlexP]

Just searching for this, would love for a way to send the RT stereo render straight to an attached Oculus.
Any plans to add this functionality?

[cheerioboy]

Uh. yes please.
Was this resolving a camera that moved with head tracking? or looking at a stereo pano as it resolved? Having that kind of instant feedback with a headset would be really really awesome. Now I need 4 GPUs.....

[AlexP]

Would be amazing if the RT active shade reacted to head tracking.

[cheerioboy]

Would be amazing if the RT active shade reacted to head tracking.

it would probably be a fuzzy mess, not getting a single moment to resolve itself

[AlexP]

it would probably be a fuzzy mess, not getting a single moment to resolve itself

Given enough GPU power......

[cheerioboy]

Given enough GPU power......

I like how you think

[wxyz]

Me too. Would be nice.

Whaaat,
Yes for sure, I'd love that!

If you do have a spare version containing that connection laying around, I'd be glad to give it a shot

although for production needs, it might be easier to have the VFB showing the unwrapped 360 as you would in any pano and let you turn around. At least you would have real time feedback of all the VFB adjustements and you would still see your mouse/keyboard/screen to work.
In the end, it would also be used to RT on regions where you pan around, crop render, adjusts, pan crop render, adjust, etc

Thanks
Stan

[cheerioboy]

Another idea would be to have VR headset support for the VFB - it would become like any other VR image viewer in that it would let you see a stereo panorama, but you get to watch it as it renders. Either using VrayRT or Vray's progressive mode. This would at least remove some steps of having to save out the image, load it into a player, view, then go back and make changes. I'd love this. Sitting there looking around as the view resolves itself.

[vlado]

Another idea would be to have VR headset support for the VFB - it would become like any other VR image viewer in that it would let you see a stereo panorama, but you get to watch it as it renders. Either using VrayRT or Vray's progressive mode. This would at least remove some steps of having to save out the image, load it into a player, view, then go back and make changes. I'd love this. Sitting there looking around as the view resolves itself.

We actually did a prototype of this last summer with V-Ray RT... will get back to it once the various headsets start going official and the APIs are a bit more stable.

Best regards,
Vlado

[3LP]

I'd like to have this build in the VFB as well actually without the link to headsets, just the plain VFB as usual.
Stereo is one thing, but the most important thing for me is to get it right on one eye first, the second eye is great for final purpose, but usually not needed for WIP.

Therefore, having the VFB wrapping the cubemaps (or spherical) to something like KRPano, would be ideal. The idea is being able to navigate through the pano with a FOV and not the whole pano. Crop, render, scroll around, repeat.

Make sense?
Stan

[tricky]

This sounds interesting. When?

[wxyz]

Please...would be awesome

We actually did a prototype of this last summer with V-Ray RT... will get back to it once the various headsets start going official and the APIs are a bit more stable.

Best regards,
Vlado