timewarp_vk

Summary

timewarp_vk is an Vulkan-based rotational reprojection service intended for use in the ILLIXR architecture. This plugin implements a rotational reprojection algorithm (i.e. does not reproject position, only rotation).

Phonebook Service

timewarp_vk is registered as a service in phonebook, conforming to the timewarp render pass interface. Three functions are exposed:

• setup(VkRenderPass render_pass, uint32_t subpass) initializes the required Vulkan pipeline and resources given a specific render pass and subpass, to which timewarp_vk binds to
• update_uniforms(const pose_type render_pose) calculates the reprojection matrix given the current pose and the pose used to render the frame, and updates the uniform buffer with the reprojection matrix. This must be called before record_command_buffer is called
• record_command_buffer(VkCommandBuffer commandBuffer, int left) records the commands into a given command buffer that would perform the reprojection for one eye, for which 1 is left and 0 is right

Notes

The rotational reprojection algorithm implemented in this plugin is a re-implementation of the algorithm used by the late Jan Paul van Waveren. His invaluable, priceless work in the area of AR/VR has made our project possible. View his codebase here.