Can I use any Jetson boards for VR application development for VR HMDs like HTC Vive or Oculus Rift? I would like to run Unity Platform on the Jetson boards and the VR Applications developed using Unity platform. Can you suggest me any Jetson boards like the orin series or xavier series or TX series?
According to the HTC and Oculus website, the minimum PC requirement for running a VR application is somewhere like Intel Core i5-4590 or equivalent or better and GPU should be NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 or equivalent or better. I was unable to find any appropriate methods to compare the Jetson boards with the standard intel i5 4590 CPU. So, please suggest me if it possible to develop VR application on any of the Jetson boards.
Basically the Jetson Orin is much powerful than Xavier, but the question is also to the VR development SDKs which can be supported to run on Jetson arm64 Linux OS environment?
Like, there are VR SDKs available for Unity platform and Unity platform is available for Ubuntu OS as well. I want to develop an VR application using the Unity engine and test out the application performance then and there. If I’m satisfied with application performance then I’ll compile and deploy the Windows executable or Ubuntu executable and run the application independent of the Unity engine on either Windows or Ubuntu.
So, essentially the question boils down to, whether any of the Nvidia Jetson boards can handle the above said tasks or should I specifically use a PC to develop the application and use Nvidia GPU for better graphics handling performance as suggested in the Nvidia VR Setup.
We never test any VR SDKs or Unity platform on Jetson, don’t know whetehr they can work well.
It’s better to have the PC as suggested at Nvidia VR Setup.
Cool, thks for your input. Although I have a question not quite completely off the topic we are discussing here. Do you know any method to compare Nvidia Jetson boards with intel processors? I understand that the Jetson boards are developed keeping in mind a completely different purpose and ARM architecture is complete different from Intel Architecture, but some how if I can gauge the capabilities of ARM Cortex Processors and Intel Processors, it would be somewhat give me a theoretical understanding of the constraints on the Jetson boards side for the VR Application.
This is not what you are asking, but I’ll add it anyway since it is related: The GPU of a Jetson is integrated directly to the memory controller (iGPU). PCs use a PCI-based discrete GPU (dGPU). The method of detecting the GPU (for almost all software) is via the “nvidia-smi” function. Any software which depends on nvidia-smi for detecting the GPU will fail on a Jetson. So I’m going to suggest that if the software you are interested in uses nvidia-smi for detection purposes, then it won’t work on a Jetson.
I don’t know if any benchmark tool can be used to do the CPU performance comparison between Jetson with Intel, I only have below inference benchmark results on all NVIDIA Jetson Products as your reference: NVIDIA jetson_benchmark webpage