PsychOculusVR

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PsychOculusVR - A high level driver for Oculus VR hardware.

Oculus VR’s trademarks, e.g., Oculus, Oculus Rift, etc. are registered trademarks
owned by Oculus VR, LLC.

Note: If you want to write VR code that is portable across
VR headsets of different vendors, then use the PsychVRHMD()
driver instead of this driver. The PsychVRHMD driver will use
this driver as appropriate when connecting to a Oculus Rift
or similar Oculus device, but it will also automaticaly work
with other head mounted displays. This driver does however
expose a few functions specific to Oculus hardware, so you can
mix calls to this driver with calls to PsychVRHMD to do some
mix & match.

For setup instructions for Oculus HMDs see “help OculusVR”.

Usage:

oldverbosity = PsychOculusVR(‘Verbosity’ [, newverbosity]);

  • Get/Set level of verbosity for driver status messages, warning messages,
    error messages etc. ‘newverbosity’ is the optional new verbosity level,
    ‘oldverbosity’ is the currently set verbosity level - ie. before changing
    it. Valid settings are: 0 = Silent, 1 = Errors only, 2 = Warnings, 3 = Info,
    4 = Debug.

hmd = PsychOculusVR(‘AutoSetupHMD’ [, basicTask=’Tracked3DVR’][, basicRequirements][, basicQuality=0][, deviceIndex]);

  • Open a Oculus HMD, set it up with good default rendering and
    display parameters and generate a PsychImaging(‘AddTask’, …)
    line to setup the Psychtoolbox imaging pipeline for proper display
    on the HMD. This will also cause the device connection to get
    auto-closed as soon as the onscreen window which displays on
    the HMD is closed. Returns the ‘hmd’ handle of the HMD on success.

By default, the first detected HMD will be used and if no VR HMD
is connected, it will open an emulated/simulated one for basic
testing and debugging. You can override this default choice of
HMD by specifying the optional ‘deviceIndex’ parameter to choose
a specific HMD.

More optional parameters: ‘basicTask’ what kind of task should be implemented.
The default is ‘Tracked3DVR’, which means to setup for stereoscopic 3D
rendering, driven by head motion tracking, for a fully immersive experience
in some kind of 3D virtual world. This is the default if omitted. The task
‘Stereoscopic’ sets up for display of stereoscopic stimuli, but without
head tracking. ‘Monoscopic’ sets up for display of monocular stimuli, ie.
the HMD is just used as a special kind of standard display monitor.

‘basicRequirements’ defines basic requirements for the task. Currently
defined are the following strings which can be combined into a single
‘basicRequirements’ string: ‘LowPersistence’ = Try to keep exposure
time of visual images on the retina low if possible, ie., try to approximate
a pulse-type display instead of a hold-type display if possible. This has
no effect on the Rift DK1. On the Rift DK2 it will enable low persistence
scanning of the OLED display panel, to light up each pixel only a fraction
of a video refresh cycle duration.

‘ForceSize=widthxheight’ = Enforce a specific fixed size of the stimulus
image buffer in pixels, overriding the recommmended value by the runtime,
e.g., ‘ForceSize=2200x1200’ for a 2200 pixels wide and 1200 pixels high
image buffer. By default the driver will choose values that provide good
quality for the given Rift DK-1/DK-2 display device, which can be scaled
up or down with the optional ‘pixelsPerDisplay’ parameter for a different
quality vs. performance tradeoff in the function PsychOpenXR(‘SetupRenderingParameters’);
The specified values are clamped against the maximum values supported by
the given hardware + driver combination.

‘PerEyeFOV’ = Request use of per eye individual and asymmetric fields of view even
when the ‘basicTask’ was selected to be ‘Monoscopic’ or ‘Stereoscopic’. This allows
for wider field of view in these tasks, but requires the usercode to adapt to these
different and asymmetric fields of view for each eye, e.g., by selecting proper 3D
projection matrices for each eye.

‘FastResponse’ = Try to switch images with minimal delay and fast
pixel switching time. This will enable OLED panel overdrive processing
on the Oculus Rift DK1 and DK2. OLED panel overdrive processing is a
relatively expensive post processing step.

‘TimingSupport’ = Use high precision and reliability timing for presentation.
This driver always uses high precision timing and timestamping, at least if you
present to your Rift DK1/DK2 HMD via a dedicated X-Screen on a multi-X-Screen
setup under Linux X11. However, specifying it will enable some additional
optimizations on the Oculus Rift DK2, taking advantage of some builtin
hardware features.

‘TimeWarp’ = Enable per eye image 2D timewarping via prediction of eye
poses at scanout time. This mostly only makes sense for head-tracked 3D
rendering. Depending on ‘basicQuality’ a more cheap or more expensive
procedure is used.

‘basicQuality’ defines the basic tradeoff between quality and required
computational power. A setting of 0 gives lowest quality, but with the
lowest performance requirements. A setting of 1 gives maximum quality at
maximum computational load. Values between 0 and 1 change the quality to
performance tradeoff.

hmd = PsychOculusVR(‘Open’ [, deviceIndex], …);

  • Open HMD with index ‘deviceIndex’. See PsychOculusVRCore Open?
    for help on additional parameters.

PsychOculusVR(‘SetAutoClose’, hmd, mode);

  • Set autoclose mode for HMD with handle ‘hmd’. ‘mode’ can be
    0 (this is the default) to not do anything special. 1 will close
    the HMD ‘hmd’ when the onscreen window is closed which displays
    on the HMD. 2 will do the same as 1, but close all open HMDs and
    shutdown the complete driver and Oculus runtime - a full cleanup.

isOpen = PsychOculusVR(‘IsOpen’, hmd);

  • Returns 1 if ‘hmd’ corresponds to an open HMD, 0 otherwise.

PsychOculusVR(‘Close’ [, hmd])

  • Close provided HMD device ‘hmd’. If no ‘hmd’ handle is provided,
    all HMDs will be closed and the driver will be shutdown.

PsychOculusVR(‘Controllers’, hmd);

  • Return a bitmask of all connected controllers: Can be the bitand
    of the OVR.ControllerType_XXX flags described in ‘GetInputState’.
    This does not detect if controllers are hot-plugged or unplugged after
    the HMD was opened. Iow. only probed at ‘Open’.
    As the classic Oculus driver does not support dedicated controllers at the
    moment, this always returns 0.

info = PsychOculusVR(‘GetInfo’, hmd);

  • Retrieve a struct ‘info’ with information about the HMD ‘hmd’.
    The returned info struct contains at least the following standardized
    fields with information:
    handle = Driver internal handle for the specific HMD.
    driver = Function handle to the actual driver for the HMD, e.g., @PsychOculusVR.
    type = Defines the type/vendor of the device, e.g., ‘Oculus’.
    modelName = Name string with the name of the model of the device, e.g., ‘Rift DK2’.
    separateEyePosesSupported = 1 if use of PsychOculusVR(‘GetEyePose’) will improve
    the quality of the VR experience, 0 if no improvement
    is to be expected, so ‘GetEyePose’ can be avoided
    to save processing time without a loss of quality.
    This always returns 1 for at least the Rift DK1 and DK2,
    as use of that function can enhance the quality of the
    VR experience with fast head movements.

The returned struct may contain more information, but the fields mentioned
above are the only ones guaranteed to be available over the long run. Other
fields may disappear or change their format and meaning anytime without
warning. See ‘help PsychVRHMD’ for more detailed info about available fields.

isSupported = PsychOculusVRCore(‘Supported’);

  • Returns 1 if the Oculus driver is functional, 0 otherwise. The
    driver is functional if the VR runtime library was successfully
    initialized and a connection to the VR server process has been
    established. It would return 0 if the server process would not be
    running, or if the required runtime library would not be correctly
    installed.

[isVisible, playAreaBounds, OuterAreaBounds] = PsychOculusVRCore(‘VRAreaBoundary’, hmd [, requestVisible]);

  • Request visualization of the VR play area boundary for ‘hmd’ and returns its
    current extents.

As VR area boundaries are not actually supported by this Oculus classic driver,
this function returns no-op results, compatible with what the new Oculus driver
would return if the Oculus guardian system would not be set up, e.g., because the
hardware setup does not include Oculus touch controllers.

The input flag ‘requestVisible’ is silently ignored:
‘requestVisible’ 1 = Request showing the boundary area markers, 0 = Don’t
request showing the markers.

Returns in ‘isVisible’ the current visibility status of the VR area boundaries.
This is always 0 for “invisible”.

‘playAreaBounds’ is an empty matrix defining the play area boundaries. The empty
return argument means that the play area is so far undefined on this driver.

‘OuterAreaBounds’ defines the outer area boundaries in the same way as
‘playAreaBounds’. In other words, it always returns an empty matrix.

input = PsychOculusVRCore(‘GetInputState’, hmd, controllerType);

  • Get input state of controller ‘controllerType’ associated with HMD ‘hmd’.

As this driver does not actually support special VR controllers, only a minimally
useful ‘input’ state is returned for compatibility with other drivers, which is
based on emulating or faking input from real controllers, so this function will be
of limited use. Specifically, only the input.Valid, input.Time and input.Buttons fields are
returned, all other fields are missing. input.Buttons maps defined OVR.Button_XXX
fields to similar or corresponding buttons on the regular keyboard.

‘controllerType’ can be one of OVR.ControllerType_LTouch, OVR.ControllerType_RTouch,
OVR.ControllerType_Touch, OVR.ControllerType_Remote, OVR.ControllerType_XBox, or
OVR.ControllerType_Active for selecting whatever controller is currently active.

Return argument ‘input’ is a struct with fields describing the state of buttons and
other input elements of the specified ‘controllerType’. It has the following fields:

‘Valid’ = 1 if ‘input’ contains valid results, 0 if input status is invalid/unavailable.
This is always 1, as any kind of connected keyboard can emulate at least ‘Buttons’, by
using KbCheck to query keys and map them to “fake buttons”.

‘ActiveInputs’ = 1, signifying the presence of a valid ‘Buttons’ input due to emulation
by KbCheck on any connected keyboard.

‘Time’ Time of last input state change of controller.

‘Buttons’ Vector with button state on the controller, similar to the ‘keyCode’
vector returned by KbCheck() for regular keyboards. Each position in the vector
reports pressed (1) or released (0) state of a specific button. Use the OVR.Button_XXX
constants to map buttons to positions.

pulseEndTime = PsychOculusVR(‘HapticPulse’, hmd, controllerType [, duration=2.5][, freq=1.0][, amplitude=1.0]);

  • Fake triggering a haptic feedback pulse. This does nothing, but return a made up
    but consistent ‘pulseEndTime’, as this classic Oculus driver does not support haptic
    feedback.

state = PsychOculusVRCore(‘PrepareRender’, hmd [, userTransformMatrix][, reqmask=1][, targetTime]);

  • Mark the start of the rendering cycle for a new 3D rendered stereoframe.
    Return a struct ‘state’ which contains various useful bits of information
    for 3D stereoscopic rendering of a scene, based on head tracking data.

‘hmd’ is the handle of the HMD which delivers tracking data and receives the
rendered content for display.

‘reqmask’ defines what kind of information is requested to be returned in
struct ‘state’. Only query information you actually need, as computing some
of this info is expensive! See below for supported values for ‘reqmask’.

‘targetTime’ is the expected time at which the rendered frame will display.
This could potentially be used by the driver to make better predictions of
camera/eye/head pose for the image. Omitting the value will use a target time
that is implementation specific, but known to give generally good results,
e.g., the midpoint of scanout of the next video frame.

‘userTransformMatrix’ is an optional 4x4 right hand side (RHS) transformation
matrix. It gets applied to the tracked head pose as a global transformation
before computing results based on head pose like, e.g., camera transformations.
You can use this to translate the “virtual head” and thereby the virtual eyes/
cameras in the 3D scene, so observer motion is not restricted to the real world
tracking volume of your headset. A typical ‘userTransformMatrix’ would be a
combined translation and rotation matrix to position the observer at some
3D location in space, then define his/her global looking direction, aka as
heading angle, yaw orientation, or rotation around the y-axis in 3D space.
Head pose tracking results would then operate relative to this global transform.
If ‘userTransformMatrix’ is left out, it will default to an identity transform,
in other words, it will do nothing.

state always contains a field state.tracked, whose bits signal the status
of head tracking for this frame. A +1 flag means that head orientation is
tracked. A +2 flag means that head position is tracked via some absolute
position tracker like, e.g., the Oculus Rift DK2 camera.

state always contains a field state.tracked, whose bits signal the status
of head tracking for this frame. A +1 flag means that head orientation is
tracked. A +2 flag means that head position is tracked via some absolute
position tracker like, e.g., the Oculus Rift DK2 camera. We also return a +128
flag which means the HMD is actually strapped onto the subjects head and displaying
our visual content. We can’t detect actual HMD display state, but do this for
compatibility to other drivers.

state also always contains a field state.SessionState, whose bits signal general
VR session status. In our case we always return +7 on this classic Oculus driver,
as we can’t detect ShouldQuit, ShouldRecenter or DisplayLost conditions, neither
if the HMD is strapped to the users head.

+1 = Our rendering goes to the HMD, ie. we have control over it. Lack of this could
mean the Health and Safety warning is displaying at the moment and waiting for
acknowledgement, or the Oculus GUI application is in control.
+2 = HMD is present and active.
+4 = HMD is strapped onto users head. E.g., a Oculus Rift CV1 would switch off/blank
if not on the head.
+8 = DisplayLost condition! Some hardware/software malfunction, need to completely quit this
Psychtoolbox session to recover from this.
+16 = ShouldQuit The user interface / user asks us to voluntarily terminate this session.
+32 = ShouldRecenter = The user interface asks us to recenter/recalibrate our tracking origin.

‘reqmask’ defaults to 1 and can have the following values added together:

+1 = Return matrices for left and right “eye cameras” which can be directly
used as OpenGL GL_MODELVIEW matrices for rendering the scene. 4x4 matrices
for left- and right eye are contained in state.modelView{1} and {2}.

 Return position and orientation 4x4 camera view matrices which describe  
 position and orientation of the "eye cameras" relative to the world  
 reference frame. They are the inverses of state.modelView{}. These  
 matrices can be directly used to define cameras for rendering of complex  
 3D scenes with the [Horde3D](Horde3D) 3D engine. Left- and right eye matrices are  
 contained in state.cameraView{1} and state.cameraView{2}.  
  
 Additionally tracked/predicted head pose is returned in state.localHeadPoseMatrix  
 and the global head pose after application of the 'userTransformMatrix' is  
 returned in state.globalHeadPoseMatrix - this is the basis for computing  
 the camera transformation matrices.  

+2 = Return matrices for tracked left and right hands of user, ie. of tracked positions
and orientations of left and right hand tracking controllers, if any. As the old
driver does not support hand tracking, this reports hard-coded neutral results and
reports a state.handStatus of 0 = “Not tracked/Invalid data”.

 state.handStatus(1) = Tracking status of left hand: 0 = Untracked, signalling that  
                       all the following information is invalid and can not be used  
                       in any meaningful way.  
  
 state.handStatus(2) = Tracking status of right hand. 0 = Untracked.  
  
 state.localHandPoseMatrix{1} = 4x4 [OpenGL](OpenGL) right handed reference frame matrix with  
                                hand position and orientation encoded to define a  
                                proper GL\_MODELVIEW transform for rendering stuff  
                                "into"/"relative to" the oriented left hand. Always  
                                a 4x4 unit identity matrix for hand resting in origin.  
  
 state.localHandPoseMatrix{2} = Ditto for the right hand.  
  
 state.globalHandPoseMatrix{1} = userTransformMatrix \* state.localHandPoseMatrix{1};  
                                 Left hand pose transformed by passed in userTransformMatrix.  
  
 state.globalHandPoseMatrix{2} = Ditto for the right hand.  
  
 state.globalHandPoseInverseMatrix{1} = Inverse of globalHandPoseMatrix{1} for collision  
                                        testing/grasping of virtual objects relative to  
                                        hand pose of left hand.  
  
 state.globalHandPoseInverseMatrix{2} = Ditto for right hand.  

More flags to follow…

eyePose = PsychOculusVR(‘GetEyePose’, hmd, renderPass [, userTransformMatrix][, targetTime]);

  • Return a struct ‘eyePose’ which contains various useful bits of information
    for 3D stereoscopic rendering of the stereo view of one eye, based on head
    tracking data. This function provides essentially the same information as
    the ‘PrepareRender’ function, but only for one eye. Therefore you will need
    to call this function twice, once for each of the two renderpasses, at the
    beginning of each renderpass.

‘hmd’ is the handle of the HMD which delivers tracking data and receives the
rendered content for display.

‘renderPass’ defines if information should be returned for the 1st renderpass
(renderPass == 0) or for the 2nd renderpass (renderPass == 1). The driver will
decide for you if the 1st renderpass should render the left eye and the 2nd
pass the right eye, or if the 1st renderpass should render the right eye and
then the 2nd renderpass the left eye. The ordering depends on the properties
of the video display of your HMD, specifically on the video scanout order:
Is it right to left, left to right, or top to bottom? For each scanout order
there is an optimal order for the renderpasses to minimize perceived lag.

‘targetTime’ is the expected time at which the rendered frame will display.
This could potentially be used by the driver to make better predictions of
camera/eye/head pose for the image. Omitting the value will use a target time
that is implementation specific, but known to give generally good results.

‘userTransformMatrix’ is an optional 4x4 right hand side (RHS) transformation
matrix. It gets applied to the tracked head pose as a global transformation
before computing results based on head pose like, e.g., camera transformations.
You can use this to translate the “virtual head” and thereby the virtual eyes/
cameras in the 3D scene, so observer motion is not restricted to the real world
tracking volume of your headset. A typical ‘userTransformMatrix’ would be a
combined translation and rotation matrix to position the observer at some
3D location in space, then define his/her global looking direction, aka as
heading angle, yaw orientation, or rotation around the y-axis in 3D space.
Head pose tracking results would then operate relative to this global transform.
If ‘userTransformMatrix’ is left out, it will default to an identity transform,
in other words, it will do nothing.

Return values in struct ‘eyePose’:

‘eyeIndex’ The eye for which this information applies. 0 = Left eye, 1 = Right eye.
You can pass ‘eyeIndex’ into the Screen(‘SelectStereoDrawBuffer’, win, eyeIndex)
to select the proper eye target render buffer.

‘modelView’ is a 4x4 RHS OpenGL matrix which can be directly used as OpenGL
GL_MODELVIEW matrix for rendering the scene.

‘cameraView’ contains a 4x4 RHS camera matrix which describes position and
orientation of the “eye camera” relative to the world reference
frame. It is the inverse of eyePose.modelView. This matrix can
be directly used to define the camera for rendering of complex
3D scenes with the Horde3D 3D engine or other engines which want
absolute camera pose instead of the inverse matrix.

Additionally tracked/predicted head pose is returned in eyePose.localHeadPoseMatrix
and the global head pose after application of the ‘userTransformMatrix’ is
returned in eyePose.globalHeadPoseMatrix - this is the basis for computing
the camera transformation matrix.

PsychOculusVR(‘SetupRenderingParameters’, hmd [, basicTask=’Tracked3DVR’][, basicRequirements][, basicQuality=0][, fov=[HMDRecommended]][, pixelsPerDisplay=1])

  • Query the HMD ‘hmd’ for its properties and setup internal rendering
    parameters in preparation for opening an onscreen window with PsychImaging
    to display properly on the HMD. See section about ‘AutoSetupHMD’ above for
    the meaning of the optional parameters ‘basicTask’, ‘basicRequirements’
    and ‘basicQuality’.

‘fov’ Optional field of view in degrees, from line of sight: [leftdeg, rightdeg,
updeg, downdeg]. If ‘fov’ is omitted, the HMD runtime will be asked for a
good default field of view and that will be used. The field of view may be
dependent on the settings in the HMD user profile of the currently selected
user.

‘pixelsPerDisplay’ Ratio of the number of render target pixels to display pixels
at the center of distortion. Defaults to 1.0 if omitted. Lower values can
improve performance, at lower quality.

PsychOculusVR(‘SetBasicQuality’, hmd, basicQuality);

  • Set basic level of quality vs. required GPU performance.

oldSetting = PsychOculusVR(‘SetFastResponse’, hmd [, enable]);

  • Return old setting for ‘FastResponse’ mode in ‘oldSetting’,
    optionally disable or enable the mode via specifying the ‘enable’
    parameter as 0 or greater than zero. Please note that if you want to
    use ‘FastResponse’, you must request and thereby enable it at the
    beginning of a session, as the driver must do some neccessary setup
    prep work at startup of the HMD. Once it was initially enabled, you
    can switch the setting at runtime with this function.

Currently implemented are an algorithmic overdrive mode if ‘enable’
is set to 1, and two lookup table (LUT) based modes for ‘enable’
settings of 2 or 3, each selecting a slightly different lookup table.

oldSetting = PsychOculusVR(‘SetTimeWarp’, hmd [, enable]);

  • Return old setting for ‘TimeWarp’ mode in ‘oldSetting’,
    optionally enable or disable the mode via specifying the ‘enable’
    parameter as 1 or 0. Please note that if you want to use ‘TimeWarp’,
    you must request and thereby enable it at the beginning of a session, as
    the driver must do some neccessary setup prep work at startup of the HMD.
    Once it was initially enabled, you can switch the setting at runtime with
    this function.

oldSetting = PsychOculusVR(‘SetLowPersistence’, hmd [, enable]);

  • Return old setting for ‘LowPersistence’ mode in ‘oldSetting’,
    optionally enable or disable the mode via specifying the ‘enable’
    parameter as 1 or 0.

oldSettings = PsychOculusVR(‘PanelOverdriveParameters’, hmd [, newparams]);

  • Return old settings for panel overdrive mode in ‘oldSettings’,
    optionally set new settings in ‘newparams’. This changes the operating
    parameters of OLED panel overdrive on the Rift DK-2 if ‘FastResponse’
    mode is active. newparams is a vector [upscale, downscale, gamma] with
    the following meaning: gamma = 1 Use gamma/degamma pass to perform
    overdrive boost in gamma 2.2 corrected space. This is the startup default.
    upscale = How much should rising pixel color intensity values be boosted.
    Default is 0.10 for a 10% boost.
    downscale = How much should rising pixel color intensity values be reduced.
    Default is 0.05 for a 5% reduction.
    The Rift DK-2 OLED panel controller is slower on rising intensities than on
    falling intensities, therefore the higher boost on rising than on falling
    direction.

PsychOculusVR(‘SetHSWDisplayDismiss’, hmd [, dismissTypes=1+2+4]);

  • Set how the user can dismiss the “Health and safety warning display”.
    ‘dismissTypes’ can be -1 to disable the HSWD, or a value >= 0 to show
    the HSWD until a timeout and or until the user dismisses the HSWD.
    The following flags can be added to define type of dismissal:

+0 = Display until timeout, if any. Will wait forever if there isn’t any timeout!
+1 = Dismiss via keyboard keypress.
+2 = Dismiss via mouse click or mousepad tap.
+4 = Dismiss via a tap to the HMD (detected via accelerometer).

[bufferSize, imagingFlags, stereoMode] = PsychOculusVR(‘GetClientRenderingParameters’, hmd);

  • Retrieve recommended size in pixels ‘bufferSize’ = [width, height] of the client
    renderbuffer for each eye for rendering to the HMD. Returns parameters
    previously computed by PsychOculusVR(‘SetupRenderingParameters’, hmd).

Also returns ‘imagingFlags’, the required imaging mode flags for setup of
the Screen imaging pipeline. Also returns the needed ‘stereoMode’ for the
pipeline.

needPanelFitter = PsychOculusVR(‘GetPanelFitterParameters’, hmd);

  • ‘needPanelFitter’ is 1 if a custom panel fitter tasks is needed, and ‘bufferSize’
    from the PsychVRHMD(‘GetClientRenderingParameters’, hmd); defines the size of the
    clientRect for the onscreen window. ‘needPanelFitter’ is 0 if no panel fitter is
    needed.

[winRect, ovrfbOverrideRect, ovrSpecialFlags, ovrMultiSample, screenid] = PsychOculusVR(‘OpenWindowSetup’, hmd, screenid, winRect, ovrfbOverrideRect, ovrSpecialFlags, ovrMultiSample);

  • Compute special override parameters for given input/output arguments, as needed
    for a specific HMD. Take other preparatory steps as needed, immediately before the
    Screen(‘OpenWindow’) command executes. This is called as part of PsychImaging(‘OpenWindow’),
    with the user provided hmd, screenid, winRect etc.

isOutput = PsychOculusVR(‘IsHMDOutput’, hmd, scanout);

  • Returns 1 (true) if ‘scanout’ describes the video output to which the
    HMD ‘hmd’ is connected. ‘scanout’ is a struct returned by the Screen
    function Screen(‘ConfigureDisplay’, ‘Scanout’, screenid, outputid);
    This allows probing video outputs to find the one which feeds the HMD.

[headToEyeShiftv, headToEyeShiftMatrix] = PsychOculusVR(‘GetEyeShiftVector’, hmd, eye);

  • Retrieve 3D translation vector [tx, ty, tz] that defines the 3D position of the given
    eye ‘eye’ for the given HMD ‘hmd’, relative to the origin of the local head/HMD
    reference frame. This is needed to translate a global head pose into a eye
    pose, e.g., to translate the output of PsychOculusVR(‘GetEyePose’) into actual
    tracked/predicted eye locations for stereo rendering.

In addition to the ‘headToEyeShiftv’ vector, a corresponding 4x4 translation
matrix is also returned in ‘headToEyeShiftMatrix’ for convenience.

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