Team 1418 Oculus Rift Driver Station Interface Release

[CarterFendley]

On behalf of team 1418 I am happy to announce that we are releasing our Oculus Rift VR-UI as open source software! You can download the code and precompiled binaries at https://github.com/frc1418/2015-oculus.

We also created a whitepaper that describes some of the features of the software and how the robot operator can use it to interact with our robot. The whitepaper is available as a Google Doc.

Here is also a short video of our driver using the Oculus while stacking totes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7iWpcFJDO4

We were disappointed when FIRST disallowed usage of Oculus Rift for competition use in 2015. As a result, development was discontinued on the software, and our Oculus interface is not as polished as we would have liked it to be. However, technologies like the Oculus Rift have huge potential in FRC, and I hope that you can see that the opportunities are endless with these types of cutting edge technologies.

Many thanks to Unity Technologies and our team members for their generous donations that made this project possible!