Jessica

purple slotted cover arrived, looking good!

so my original plan for this eye tracking setup was to tear down one of the USB hubs I bought for this and shove it in the frunk, but

1. I discovered that I don't actually need SuperSpeed USB 3.0 for anything I'm going to be doing here¹, and
2. it turns out I have a spare USB 2.0 internal hub board left over from a previous project, which ought to fit nicely in the frunk, and save a bit of room due to not using real USB Type-A at all

so the main blocker now is just getting long enough USB 2.0 Type-A to C cables that I can adapt to the Dupont type connectors the hub uses

also a thing I learned that I was kind of surprised by is that the Index doesn't use the USB voltage at all; everything in the headset, USB port included, is powered by the 12V jack, so there's a bunch of voltage regulating hardware on your face, which feels a little suboptimal lmao

1. I was keeping my options open for potentially adding a Vive face tracker in the future, but it turns out that despite using USB Type-C, even it apparently only uses USB 2.0, and if I'm already considering wiring my own USB cables this should be easy enough to adapt as well

purple slotted cover arrived, looking good!

ngl I am slightly mad that VR headset manufacturers didn't get their shit together on VirtualLink so we're still usually stuck with a fragile-ass cerberus power&data&video cable (or a "link box" to break them out separately) instead of one goddamned USB-C connector