Would it be possible to get OpenVR API to show position+orientation of an HMD/controller as data that I could pass through internal computer communications to MATLAB?
Hello everyone. I'm working on a custom tracking system as my masters' thesis that could be used for VR. I'm working mostly on the hardware and firmware side of the device, but there are a couple of software needs that I'm working on low priority to get more experimental data once I get the whole thing to work. Through an LM (I'm not an AI guy, but I've not done object oriented programming in my degree, and I don't have the bandwidth to learn rn) I've acquired the code of a driver to get the tracker to talk to the OpenVR API to display the device on SteamVR. I will also use the tracker's communications method to get it to work on MATLAB as a data gathering tool. Does anybody know if I can connect the OpenVR API to MATLAB to display positional data of the HMD? I'm planning on mounting the tracker there to get a differential analysis on the efficacy of my solution. TIA
Posted Sep 27, 2026, 7:12 PM UTC