OpenVR Northstar

This is a community driver to support the North Star headset on OpenVR. It is unafiliated with Leap Motion/Ultra Leap.

Build Instructions

Dependencies

• Visual Studio 2019 CE (https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/). Under workloads make sure to select:
  • Desktop development with C++
  • .Net desktop development
• cmake (https://cmake.org/download/)
  • making sure to add it at least to the current user's system path
• Git (https://git-scm.com/download/win/)

Installation

Windows

• Launch the windows command prompt cmd
• Run the following

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/druidsbane/openvr-northstar.git
cd openvr-northstar
build.bat

• Once it is built navigate to the bin/win64 directory and launch NorthstarLauncher.exe

Linux

• Tested on Ubuntu 19.10 and Pop!_OS 19.10
• Install Steam and SteamVR
• Launch SteamVR at least once
• Launch a terminal
• Run the following

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/druidsbane/openvr-northstar.git
cd openvr-northstar
./linux.sh

• Answer the ./linux.sh wizard questions
• Launch SteamVR

macOS

• Launch a terminal
• Run the following

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/druidsbane/openvr-northstar.git
cd openvr-northstar
./macos.sh

• Launch SteamVR