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ArnoldRimmer on 31 March 2016
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Lafiel said:
ArnoldRimmer said:

Ha! I've predicted time and again that PSVR comes to PC sooner or later.

But this exceeds even my wildest dreams: I believed the way PSVR would come to PC would be by the internet community developing inofficial PC drivers for PSVR, just like they have already done for pretty much all Playstation peripherals. People constantly ridiculed this idea by claiming that SONY would do absolutely anything possible to prevent this from happening (being able to use PSVR on PC).

Quite ironic that SONY itself is now considering developing and releasing PC software for PSVR. Even I hadn't expected SONY to go this far...

I think unofficial support could be pretty hard to realize, because the software necessary to track the LED strips on the unit with a cam is not trivial to replicate and make fast/reliable enough to be useable for VR (processing the data has to fit into ~2ms afaik).

But tracking a few LEDS is hardly going to be the showstopper here. With libraries like OpenCV, this should actually be fairly simple. And even if OpenCV turns out to be unsuitable because it is too slow, tracking a few LEDs shouldn't be too much of a problem. While I have admittedly no experience, the basic strategy to track the LEDs actually seems rather simple to me: If a certain LED was located at coordinate 100,100 in the previous captured picture, and at coordinate 80,110 in the current captured picture, its coordinates in the next picture should be relative close to 60,120...

Anyways, even if they absolutely couldn't manage to track the LEDs in the short 2ms you mentioned, it would basically still work, even if it wasn't quite as fast as it should be.