How To Open Alive Directly To a Training For Research

[Ryan Deluz]

I've had a couple of organizations wanting to do research with Alive that needed to open Alive to specific sections directly. This is possible, but you will not have selected a user and will need to manually keep track of which session matches to which research participant.

The next post describes which sections of Alive you can open directly, and how to open them.

[Ryan Deluz]

Alive can be open directly to the Spoon Bending mini-game, as well as directly to the breathing training animation. You can also open directly to the Breath Spirals environment.

Dual Drive can also be opened directly, but you need to also have registered Dual Drive separately (purchased the version of Dual Drive that works independently of Alive, and for the hardware you are using).

You need to call SafeOpen.exe with a variety of switches to accomplish this. One way you can do this is by making a .bat file in the same folder as Alive (Program Files / Alive / DirectOpenBreathing.bat).

As an example you could create a .bat file DirectOpenBreathing.bat, and put the following inside the file in a text editor such as notepad:
SafeOpen.exe SomaticVisionServer.exe --WD --HMD --EAL=Breathing --DEFAULTUSER --INV
You may need to create the file on your desktop, edit it, then copy it into your Program Files / Alive folder.

Running that .bat file would then open Alive directly to the breathing training.

You could also use a shortcut or other method to run SafeOpen.exe with these switches. Make sure the Start In directory for shortcuts is the Program Files / Alive directory.

The available sections, and the associated commands, are:

Breathing animation in Alive:
SafeOpen.exe SomaticVisionServer.exe --WD --HMD --EAL=Breathing --DEFAULTUSER --INV

Spoon bending in Alive:
SafeOpen.exe SomaticVisionServer.exe --WD --HMD --EAL=SpoonBending --DEFAULTUSER --INV

Breath Spirals Environment:
SafeOpen.exe SomaticVisionServer.exe --WD --HMD --AL --DEFAULTUSER --INV
(NOTE: From this environment you can also go to Choose Display -> Quick Select and choose another environment or mini-game)

Dual Drive (registration of both Alive and non-Alive version of Dual Drive required, runs from Program Files / Alive):
SafeOpen.exe SomaticVisionServer.exe --WD --HMD --MRL=AztecSwampAuto --DEFAULTUSER --INV

For Dual Drive you can replace AztecSwampAuto with any of the following, Auto meaning training in autopilot, Manual meaning training where you manually steer:
BasicRaceAuto
ArcticIcebergAuto
AztecSwampAuto
CoalSunsetAuto
LavaLandAuto
LostDesertAuto
MountainClimbAuto
OasisSplashAuto
SnowfallAuto
BasicRaceManual
ArcticIcebergManual
AztecSwampManual
CoalSunsetManual
LavaLandManual
LostDesertManual
MountainClimbManual
OasisSplashManual
SnowfallManual

I hope this helps!

Ryan Deluz
Somatic Vision Inc.

[Ryan Deluz]

Hi All,

In the new Alive for Mac OS X it is also possible to use switches to open Alive.

For example from the shell or Apple Script:

You can open Dual Drive using any of the switches mentioned above, for example:
"/Applications/Alive/Alive.app/Contents/MacOS/Alive" --WD --HMD --INV --MRL=AztecSwampAuto --DEFAULTUSER
or
"/Applications/Alive/Alive.app/Contents/MacOS/Alive" --WD --HMD --INV --MR --DEFAULTUSER

An example of how to open SpoonBending:
"/Applications/Alive/Alive.app/Contents/MacOS/Alive" --WD --HMD --INV --EAL=SpoonBending --DEFAULTUSER

Best,

Ryan Deluz
Somatic Vision Inc.