Hi Matthias, Tom wrote a nice summary of his process for making mixed-reality videos here: <https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimerax/data/mixed-reality-nov2019/mrhowto.html> That may address the first and third questions. As for the middle question, there is a mouse mode (or VR hand-controller button mode) for bond rotation. However, my guess is that instead he previously made a morph trajectory between the two conformations and then was using the mouse mode "play coordinates" (flipping through different sets of coordinates in a trajectory model)... Tom would have to confirm whether my guess is correct. One would generally use the bond rotation mode when zoomed in on atoms/bonds shown as sticks, so that is easy to start the drag on a specific bond. Mouse modes and their toolbar icons: <http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/tools/mousemodes.html> I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Mar 12, 2020, at 4:16 AM, Matthias Wolf <matthias.wolf@oist.jp> wrote:
Hi Tom,
I really liked your CoV movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKNbRRRFhqY&feature=youtu.be It’s a new way of storytelling. Although we have used chimeraX in the lab with a Vive and Vive pro for about 2 years, it’s usually one person at a time, with a dark background. But your way opens up interactive VR to a larger audience (even if they don’t get to enjoy the stereoscopic 3D). And it’s cool.
I have some questions: • How did you overlay the chimera viewport sync’d with the life camera feed showing yourself? Did you use a frame grabber on a different PC to capture the full-screen chimeraX VR viewport while simultaneously recording the camera video stream, e.g. using Adobe Premiere? • How did you control flipping out the outer spike domain with your hand controller? I guess you assigned control of a torsional angle in the atomic model to a mouse mode? • Did you enable the headset cameras to orient yourself in the room?
Thanks for keeping improving chimeraX and VR!
Matthias