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Using the Varjo XR3 Headset

Author: <Nathan Kassai> Email: kassan@unlv.nevada.edu
Date: Last modified on <01/06/2023>
Keywords: <Virtual Reality, Tutorial, Step-by-Step>

Motivation and Audience

This tutorial's motivation is to teach how to set up the Varjo XR3 Headset, Varjo Base, and how to get the headset working in Unity. To fully understand and follow the tutorial, the author assumes the reader has the following background and or interests:

* What is Unity?
* Virtual Reality and or Augmented Reality

The rest of this tutorial is presented as follows:

  • Hardware
  • Connections
  • Software (get local copy of varjo base)
  • Varjo Base
  • Connecting the Varjo XR3 to Unity
  • Final Words

Time to complete - 30 minutes

Note: Add prereq…

Hardware

To complete this tutorial, you'll need the following items (shown in image below from left to right)

  • Varjo XR3 Headset (1)
  • Display Cable (2) (add link for the specific cables required) (Add price for headset (when that price was established))
  • USB 3.0 Cable (2)
  • Link Box (1) (List specific link box required (and model number in case goes missing)
  • 12V 3.0A AC Adapter (1) (barrel jack type)

Connections

This section gives step-by-step instructions along with photos to ensure you make the proper connections to your link box.

Step 1 Grab the two long USB-C cables from the headset and connect them to their respective slots on the Link Box (connect A to A, B to B).

Step 2 Connect the two USB 3.0 Cables from the back of the link box to two available USB 3.0 slots on your PC

Step 3 Connect the two Display Cables from the back of the link box to two available DisplayPort slots on your PC

Step 4 Once everything is properly connected to the link box, grab the 12v 3.0A AC Adapter, and connect it to the link box (connection is found on the side with the two USB 3.0 and DisplayPort cables), and connect the AC Adapter to an available wall outlet.

The headset is now powered on! Time to install/run the necessary software.

Software

To get the headset running, you must install Varjo Base! Go to the following link:

https://account.varjo.com/login

And login to DASL’s Varjo Base Account (For security purposes, the account information will only be provided in the lab. Account information will be located in the VR area)

Once you’ve logged in, you may hit download:

After the executable has downloaded, run it, and follow through the installation process (Note: If it asks which headset you are using, specify Varjo-XR3)

Varjo Base

Once the software has been installed properly, you should see the following:

Note: There are two types of tracking that the Varjo XR3 uses:

  • Unordered List Item

Connecting the Varjo XR3 to Unity

Final Words

This tutorial's objective was to <fill in the blank>. Complete <choose: construction details, source code and program descriptions> for <fill in the blank>. Once the concepts were conveyed the reader could <fill in the blank>.

Speculating future work derived from this tutorial, includes <fill in the blank>. In the big picture, the problem of <fill in the blank> can be solved with this tutorial.

For questions, clarifications, etc, Email: paul.oh@unlv.edu

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