VR plugin with Oculus Quest 2

VR/AR
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Hi,

I’m using the Oculus Quest 2 with Paraview (V5.10.1) and when I enable the openVR plugin and send the view to the headset I’m presented with a blank, black space within the headset. The VR view from Paraview does show the headset is tracking and shows the models I have loaded.

Is there a step I’m missing or is the quest 2 not supported?

Thanks,
Mark Howell
University of Utah School of Biological Sciences

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@martink @Scott_Wittenburg @Tiffany_Chhim

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Quest 2 is supported, but it has been a while since I tested that specific headset. Let me load it up today and see.

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I appreciate the quick response, let me know if you need any more info about my hardware setup.

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My local build/install of master works fine. My install of PV5.10 RC 1 is missing the manifest files but otherwise works. I feel like the missing manifest files issue popped up recently here. Let me dig around.

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Found the issue relevant to RC1. specifically here https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/21004

Is that what you are seeing? If so the fix is merged months ago but maybe you are running a different PV build or download?

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I misspoke earlier, I’m running 5.10.0. It looks like the opposite of that bug, in the headset I only see a black room with my guardian on the floor. When I turn on the VR view on the desktop I see that the headset is properly tracking and my controls are working but nothing gets displayed on the Oculus Quest.

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Hmm. You should be hitting the button “Send To OpenVR” to get into VR and make sure you have Steam + SteamVR installed with the occulus support. I start the occulus app, first, turn on link, then start steamVR and make sure your headset is showing up.

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I think it might be a hardware related issue. Both my PI and I both had the same issue with getting a black screen on the quest after sending it to openVR using our laptops (with nvidia 2070 supers) but it works just fine on my lab machine with a 2080. I’ll do some more troubleshooting to see if I can root out a cause.

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Might want to run paraview and hit Help → About scroll down to OpenGL and make sure the laptop is using your 2070s and not the generic APU

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That was it! After forcing it to use the GPU it shows up just fine in the headset.

Thanks so much for you help.

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Awesome! Grad to hear it.