RasPi | Issue 37
CREATE A PI-POWERED VR SETUP
Virtual Reality is huge now and has come a long way since the concepts and CGI visuals of Stephen King’s Lawnmower Man. It is one of the fastest growing areas of technology and you can now design models, explore new places and play games all within a virtual environment. A professional VR hardware package is expensive and will set you back several hundred pounds. However, it’s possible to emulate the VR setup up using a Raspberry Pi, Python-VRZero and a 3D graphics module, Pi3D. Now, this is purely for fun and learning, so don’t expect huge gaming PC frame rates, although some of the demos do peak at around 25-30 FPS on a Raspberry Pi 3. This tutorial shows you how you create a VR setup using the Raspberry Pi 3, a Xbox 360 controller and some Python code.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in RasPi Issue 37.