Chimera X and the Oculus Quest

HI First please excuse my computer language ignorance. My question is: Is the Oculus Quest compatible with Chimera X; if it is, is software available to link the program to the Quest. I am aware already that the Rift can be connected and also certain phones. Thank you for you time. Best Tom Dr. Thomas Gluick Assistant Professor of Chemistry School of Science and Technology 770-842-5532

Hi Tom, ChimeraX VR will not work on an Oculus Quest headset. Oculus Quest is a standalone headset, it doesn't connect to a PC, and it runs the Android operating system. ChimeraX runs on Windows, Linux and macOS operating systems but not Android. Since Android is a cell-phone operating system and the molecular biology research applications we focus on is not typically done on cell-phones, it is not likely ChimeraX will ever run on Android -- it would be a big project to make that happen. Here are some slides that talk a bit about the VR hardware ChimeraX runs on and also mentions other AR/VR hardware we it does not work on and gives some details why https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/data/acs-aug2019/drugvr.html <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/data/acs-aug2019/drugvr.html> Tom
On Aug 26, 2019, at 2:12 PM, Thomas Gluick <tgluick@ggc.edu> wrote:
HI
First please excuse my computer language ignorance. My question is: Is the Oculus Quest compatible with Chimera X; if it is, is software available to link the program to the Quest. I am aware already that the Rift can be connected and also certain phones.
Thank you for you time.
Best
Tom
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