Using Valve Index controllers with Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest or WMR like HTC Reverb
150A new video I can recommend with the same type of guide by pro Youtuber:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9lR5LbSkdk
In this video I will go into how you can use the Valve Index controllers (or other Valve Lighthouse tracked controllers) with any headset that can be used with SteamVR.
So that means Oculus Rift, Quest and WMR headsets like the HTC Reverb.
What you will need:
Valve Index controllers (or if you want, other Lighthouse based controllers)
Lighthouse base stations, both v1 and v2 can be used with Index controllers
Some way of connecting the Index controllers to the PC. You can use Steam Controller dongles, Vive Tracker dongles or a Valve Index headset.
Might also be possible to use a Vive, Vive Pro or other Valve tracking based headsets. But if you are using a headset instead of two dongles you need to only connect the headset with USB and not the dsiaply cable.
If you want to use Vive Trackers with this setup or just use Vive Trackers with some non-Valve headset, you need dongles for those as well. One dongle per device. Steam Controller dongles needs to be specially flashed. Google that if you plan on using those as it might risk them not being possible to use with Steam Controllers again.
Dongles are very hard to come by these days, so might actually be a better option to get an old used HTC Vive headset and use it as the dongle. It can connect two Index controllers and can often be found for the same price as one Vive Tracker.
And of course you will need a second headset that you want to use these controllers with. This headset needs to be supported by SteamVR and it will only be under SteamVR (or Oculus games using ReVive) that you can use the Index controllers together with this headset. So you cannot play Oculus Quest games on the Quest using Index controllers, or play Oculus PC VR games using a Rift headset using the Index controllers. You can however play Oculus PC VR games with the Quest if you use Virtual Desktop and connect your Quest using SteamVR and then use ReVive to run Oculus Rift games.
OpenVR Advanced Settings
and
OpenVR Space Calibrator
Checklist:
Install the software (OpenVR Advanced Settings and Space Calibrator)
Connect the two dongles to USB ports or connect a Lighthouse headset to a USB port(but not its display port).
Connect the VR headset
Ensure the Lighthouse Base Stations are turned on and not in power saving mode
Launch SteamVR
Activate the Index controllers if they are not active already
Run the calibration
Quit SteamVR
Turn on Index controllers
Run SteamVR again
Finish calibration if its still not correct
...
Profit (play VR with the controllers and your headset)
Here is a link to the OpenVR space calibrator:
https://github.com/pushrax/OpenVR-SpaceCalibrator/releases
And the OpenVR Advanced Settings:
https://github.com/OpenVR-Advanced-Settings/OpenVR-AdvancedSettings/releases
For this recording I was using the Oculus Quest, Valve Index, the Index controllers and two Valve Lighthouse 2.0 basestations. I am using some retractable ceiling hooks to keep the cable out of the way.
My computer specs are Ryzen 7 3700X, RTX 2080Ti and 32gb DDR4 RAM
There is also a nice guide here on Reddit made by PumkinSpiceTrukNuts
https://www.reddit.com/r/WindowsMR/comments/e1nwre/putting_this_here_since_the_question_has_been/
Here is a link to the original video that I made to show how to do this. It was too long and not very well structured or edited in any way, which is why I made this new video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN7chMhXlB0&feature=youtu.be
Timestamps:
0:00 Video introduction
3:41 Software needed
5:00 Todo List
6:40 Calibrating controllers and headset
11:06 Testing the Index controllers with the Quest headset
11:36 Finishing comments