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Description

Adds an optional desktop mirror for OVXR teleoperation using OVUI. Users can select a headset-eye or camera render product, limit the mirror update rate and display application-provided status text.

Applications inject the mirror through OvxrFrameConsumer. OvxrSession calls generic startup, frame and shutdown hooks; mirror configuration, product selection, image storage, UI worker state and status stay in the mirror component. The mirror displays completed images and retains their buffers until GPU uploads finish. Closing OvxrSession retires the UI worker before releasing the borrowed rendering resources. Headset-eye images exclude separately submitted picture-in-picture layers; camera views can be selected directly.

OVUI is an optional dependency provided by the desktop-mirror extra and is imported only when the mirror is enabled. The mirror defaults OMNIUI_BACKEND to opengl when unset, preserves an explicit application setting and reports unsupported copy backends clearly. It requires a usable desktop display.

The session, frame-consumer and mirror modules live under isaaccapture.ovxr_session_manager, with matching tests under tests/python/core/ovxr_session_manager.

The desktop-mirror extra requires CUDA 13 Python bindings (cuda-bindings>=13,<14), matching the inherited ovxr extra and Isaac Lab. Python 3.12 or newer remains required for the mirror.

Type of change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
• Documentation update

Testing

CUDA 13 dependency alignment: source-install and wheel requirement inputs agree, reject CUDA 12/14, and accept the tested CUDA bindings 13.3.1. All 191 OVXR session-manager tests and CI-equivalent pre-commit checks passed; the existing environment passes its dependency check. This follow-up changes metadata and documentation only. No new wheel or headset run was performed. The local full documentation build could not run because its NVIDIA Sphinx theme is unavailable in the reused environment.

The desktop mirror requires Python 3.12 or newer. Both the source-install metadata and CMake wheel requirements select OVUI only on Python 3.12+, preserving core Isaac Capture support for Python 3.11. The guide states that the mirror is unavailable on 3.11. The unqualified dependency reproduces the resolver failure; the corrected mirror dependency set resolves across the declared Python range without a build/install. Source and wheel requirement markers agree for 3.11, 3.12 and 3.13, and the full pre-commit suite passes. A subsequent Python 3.12 incremental wheel build from this exact head completed. Comparing with the prior wheel found changes only in METADATA and RECORD; all 177 installed files match the refreshed wheel. The consuming Lab environment passed ordinary locked synchronization and its dependency check. Hosted platform and release-wheel jobs remain separate gates.

The optional-OVUI import test now explicitly selects the parent test's package in its isolated child process. CTest supplies the built package through PYTHONPATH, which Python's -I discards; this caused the arm64 job to fail before testing OVUI behavior. The child also checks its package origin, so an unrelated installed wheel cannot hide the problem. That import-test correction did not change runtime code.

Import-test correction: all 4 desktop-mirror tests passed against the existing source-built package on Linux x86-64 / Python 3.12, and the full CI-equivalent pre-commit suite passed. Hosted checks on this head now pass for x64 and arm64 across Python 3.11–3.13 in Debug and Release, including the wheel gate, wheel publication and documentation build. No arm64 build was performed locally. An earlier wheel gate also failed because its prerequisite jobs were cancelled, which is not evidence of a wheel defect.

The following runtime/build results were recorded before these CI and dependency-metadata corrections on Linux x86-64, Python 3.12:

• Teleoperation, OVXR session-manager and mirror tests: 422 passed against the rebuilt, installed wheel, including interrupted startup, caller-thread consumer preparation, worker failure propagation, mirror startup failure and resource retirement.
• Local public IWER with GR1T2 and CPU OVPhysX: Play, hand-driven simulation, camera PiP, desktop-mirror eye/camera selection, recovery after a full browser restart and mirror-driven application shutdown were exercised. The tested IWER build exited with code 0 and no pending async task; mirror closure drains its update and UI tasks before releasing resources.
• Standalone OVUI mirror smoke test: opened with the default OpenGL backend, presented six frames and shut down without errors.
• Installed-SDK configuration, static CUDA linkage, native camera-layer contract and wheel-delivery checks passed.
• Native core and camera-layer tests: 218 passed.
• CUDA mapping and cleanup comparison: 57 cases passed.
• Shutdown/publication stress checks: 110 passed across 10 fresh processes.
• Real headless GPU rendering: 12 frames; owned GPU copies matched both CPU readback and the original GPU implementation, including a geometry change and resource retirement.
• Wheel package and metadata checks: 6 passed; the 2 plugin-binary checks do not apply with plugins disabled. Camera-helper inclusion passed ON → OFF → ON after relocation.
• Required pre-commit checks and the warning-as-error documentation build passed.

Physical-headset regression checks before the API rename, with the complete PR stack passed GR1T2/Newton, G1 locomanipulation, three-camera fixed-base G1, and headless Kit-backed GR1T2 with the desktop mirror disabled. Subsequent physical-headset tests with the desktop mirror and PiP enabled passed GR1T2 CPU OvPhysX, G1 locomanipulation CPU OvPhysX, and GR1T2 Newton with physics on GPU 1 and rendering/publication/CloudXR on GPU 0. The user reported first-Play and Reset success on the split-GPU run, and closing the mirror shut down the application with exit code 0. These checks used Capture 5d45441 and the verified Lab cumulative tree published at d51696e; they do not qualify other platforms or resolve historical cold-start/intermittent first-Play failures. The scene-specific screenshot thresholds and tab-close reconnect automation did not pass in the local IWER checks; full-browser disconnect/reconnect recovered successfully.

Checklist

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• I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
• I have added tests that prove my fix/feature works (or explained why not)
• I have signed off all my commits per the DCO

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added an optional desktop mirror for viewing selected rendered images, including camera and auxiliary outputs, in a desktop window.
  • The mirror displays status and frame-rate information, and supports host- and GPU-backed images.
  • Added the desktop-mirror optional installation extra. The mirror requires a display and a compatible CUDA device.
• Documentation
  • Added setup guidance, including renderer initialization and graphics-backend requirements.

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Walkthrough

The changes add an optional desktop-mirror dependency group and document its installation and runtime requirements. OVXR now accepts frame consumers and provides output, submission, completion, and shutdown callbacks. The desktop mirror selects render products, captures bounded snapshots, and displays them through OVUI. The implementation includes reusable CUDA image copies, mailbox ownership and cleanup, worker status and cadence reporting, and tests for session lifecycle, image capture, GPU operations, and UI behavior.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant OvxrSession
  participant OwnedDesktopMirror
  participant OwnedMirrorMailbox
  participant OwnedDesktopMirrorWorker
  participant OVUI
  OvxrSession->>OwnedDesktopMirror: on_session_started(binding, config, request_shutdown)
  OvxrSession->>OwnedDesktopMirror: on_outputs(renderer, outputs, shared)
  OwnedDesktopMirror->>OwnedMirrorMailbox: capture selected output
  OvxrSession->>OwnedDesktopMirror: on_frame_submitted after successful submission
  OwnedDesktopMirror->>OwnedDesktopMirrorWorker: start on first submitted frame
  OwnedDesktopMirrorWorker->>OwnedMirrorMailbox: acquire snapshot
  OwnedMirrorMailbox-->>OwnedDesktopMirrorWorker: selected image snapshot
  OwnedDesktopMirrorWorker->>OVUI: upload image and update status

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Merge Risk: Low · up to b3290

The optional desktop mirror sets an environment default from a background thread while native teleoperation threads run, which can very rarely crash the process. Moving the default to an application-thread step before the session worker starts is a small fix; the rest of the change looks mergeable.

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- Line 503: Move the OMNIUI_BACKEND default out of
OwnedDesktopMirrorWorker._run() to an application-thread preparation hook on
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