Show HN: DIY virtual HDMI monitor using "AR" glasses
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blensor
I am making a virtual HDMI monitor using Viture Pro XR glasses and an SBC ( currently OrangePi 5 Plus because it has HDMI-in ).
What it does is map the frames from the HDMI input onto a virtual display that is controlled by the IMU data from the glasses ( 3DOF only ). I've put AR in quotes in the title because many won't view those display glasses as true AR but by tracking the head movement it comes close.
I am trying to build kind of a "low cost" version of a virtual screen that acts like a monitor and can be connected to anything that has an HDMI output
I started off using the official Viture SDK to interact with the glasses but have since switched to a reverse engineered implementation of the protocol because their SDK is not available for ARM
Here is a video showing the first version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6w5kAA22Ts
Big caveat: Performance still needs to improve a lot because the whole frame reading/converting is completely unoptimized for now.
What other solutions do exist out there? * Streaming the computer screen to a headset like Meta Quest/Vision Pro * Connecting a HDMI capture dongle to the Meta Quest directly * XReal Beam ( basically the same as this project but official and for XReal glasses )
And for the obvious question, why I am not use something like a Quest or Vision Pro 1. Comfort 2. Price 3. Comfort
After using those display glasses over HMDs it's hard to convince myself to use a headset for productivity again
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