ALVR Client on an Embedded Linux device...?

[madscientist42]

Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but it's not obvious in the details on the README.md and there's no Q/A or discussion on this that reaches out, up and slaps me in the face here.

I am looking at the possibility of recycling some of my tethered headsets to make them...well...wireless and all (Why go buy a Quest3 when I have something like a WMR headset in hand as a hand-me-down, right?)

Is there full/partial support for making a Linux client as a part of an embedded distribution? I'm thinking something that is similar in nature to what's fielded in a Quest 1 but be able to be fully Open Source.

Some background to set the pace and understanding of the discussion here:

• I've been doing Embedded Linux professionally for over 20 years.
• I've been accused of helping with starting OpenGL ON Linux (Utah-GLX).
• I'm at least passingly familiar with OpenXR stuff and the like.

It makes sense (at least to me...) to consider trying to do a small belt pack for an Inside-Out system on a mid-to-higher end headset to make it wireless, using this as the core. I'm thinking of making a brick that can be powered via a battery pack, build out the firmware image with Yocto (Something I have a solid understanding of) maybe have a handful of simplistic but very usable overlay type functions to set up a guardian for the SLAM system and some lightweight menu functions, etc. to make it maybe end up being cleaner than the dedicated Android headsets. Is it possible/plausible? How much work would be guessed at being involved with this crazy idea?

[zmerp]

The key missing component for this use-case is a decoder that runs on desktop. This would be for example written with Vulkan. Currently we only support Android for this reason. I have no ETA for when this would be implemented

[madscientist42]

As for it being implemented...

I'm game with trying my hand at it if the dev team's patient with the occasional seeming stupid questions. 😉

First one: What's the implementation language for the Android decoder?

[zmerp]

For the decoder we use Rust like most parts of the codebase. We use the NDK API