Interactive Ray-tracing and Oculus Rift

That's it, I found an Oculus rift in my mailbox 2 days ago and since then, my social life sort of isn't the same anymore ;-) After getting sick after an endless HL2 session, I decided that it was time to initiate more serious stuff. I you read my blog, you already know that I was really, really waiting for that rift, and despite the amazing weather outside, I spent another afternoon integrating that new device with my interactive CUDA raytracer. And here is the result:

Device initialization and  destruction was as simple as that:
void Scene::initializeOVR()
{
   HMDInfo Info;
   bool InfoLoaded;
   OVR::System::Init();
      m_manager = *OVR::DeviceManager::Create();
   m_HMD = *m_manager->EnumerateDevices<HMDDevice>().CreateDevice();
   if (m_HMD)
   {
      InfoLoaded = m_HMD->GetDeviceInfo(&Info);
      m_sensor = *m_HMD->GetSensor();
   }
   else
   {
      m_sensor = *m_manager->EnumerateDevices<SensorDevice>().CreateDevice();
   }
   if(m_sensor)
   {
      m_sensorFusion.AttachToSensor(m_sensor);
   }
}

void Scene::finalizeOVR()
{
m_sensor.Clear();
   m_HMD.Clear();
m_manager.Clear();
System::Destroy();
}

And getting the orientation of the drift is as difficult as that:
if ( m_sensorFusion.IsAttachedToSensor() )
{
  OVR::Quatf orientation = m_sensorFusion.GetOrientation(); 
  m_viewAngles.x = orientation.x;
  m_viewAngles.y = orientation.y;
  m_viewAngles.z = orientation.z;
}

m_gpuKernel->setCamera( m_viewPos, m_viewDir, m_viewAngles );

Splitting the screen for both eyes was already implemented in my engine, originaly for 3D vision, but I have to admin that Oculus is way more convincing.

More to come...