Emulate HTC Vive with Unreal

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Hello, I’m starting a VR Project for my Master Thesis and I will need to develop for the HTC Vive with Unreal.
The thing is: my lab has only one Headset, and I live pretty far away from it.
In the near future I will also have to travel abroad and won’t have physical access to it.

Is there a way to emulate the Vive, so that I can test my projects in Unreal without having the actual Headset connected?

So far I have found:

  1. use the null driver as seen on reddit
  2. use vridge and google cardboard as seen on youtube

Since these information is pretty outdated, I was wondering if by any chance there is a better way, without the need for a google cardboard, just like having an emulator window to see what a user with the Headset would see and to emulate movements and interactions.

Thanks.

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Hey,
Check out your vrserver.txt file you might have some error. Try these settings they work for me and don’t forget to take a copy of the previous file.
{ "jsonid" : "vrsettings", "steamvr": { "forcedDriver": "null" }, "driver_null": { "enable": true, "id": "Null Driver", "serialNumber": "Null 4711", "modelNumber": "Null Model Number", "windowX": 100, "windowY": 100, "windowWidth": 1920, "windowHeight": 1080, "renderWidth": 1344, "renderHeight": 1512, "secondsFromVsyncToPhotons": 0.1, "displayFrequency": 90 }, "notifications" : { "DoNotDisturb" : false }, "version" : "1" }
I got this information from here link text