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Description

Add an optional OVUI desktop mirror for OVXR sessions. Applications select completed eye/camera products with MirrorProduct, set an update limit and supply status text. The most recent image remains visible between updates; closing the window requests application shutdown.

OwnedDesktopMirror implements the shared OvxrFrameConsumer from #1295. Selection, bounded owned image copies and UI-worker lifetime stay in the mirror component. PiP and mirror are independent; mirrored eyes exclude separately submitted PiP layers, while camera feeds can be selected directly.

The mirror uses OVUI's default Vulkan backend. Neither Isaac Capture nor the matching Lab adapter changes OMNIUI_BACKEND; an active non-Vulkan backend is rejected clearly. Before reusing a source snapshot, the mirror drains the current OVUI upload device's legacy CUDA stream, including upload failures. This follows the pinned OVUI 0.3.0 synchronous upload implementation; the source image may be on another GPU. Host status methods retain a local worker reference across concurrent shutdown.

The optional desktop-mirror extra installs OVUI separately and requires Python 3.12+, CUDA 13 bindings, a compatible NVIDIA driver and a usable GPU-backed desktop. Core Isaac Capture retains Python 3.11 support. Release-wheel validation checks the mirror modules as well as the native PiP helper.

Testing

Linux x86-64, Python 3.12:

• 449 tests passed: 216 OVXR/consumer tests and 233 teleoperation tests, with deterministic concurrent-close tests and upload-failure lifetime checks.
• Real OVUI 0.3.0 Vulkan window: three GPU1-sourced image sequences, exact displayed pixels for two changing colors, and clean shutdown. The completion check observed GPU0 as the upload device.
• The upload contract was traced through the pinned OVUI implementation and checked against the installed native library. Tests distinguish source GPU1 from upload GPU0 and retain snapshots after a failed completion check.
• CI-equivalent pre-commit and documentation-reference checks passed.

This is focused validation of the current fixes. Release-wheel CI, arm64, new IWER/headset runs and performance qualification were not repeated. Cold attach, intermittent first-Play recovery and SO101 cube retention remain open. Full local documentation rendering is blocked by the missing NVIDIA Sphinx theme.

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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 · previous review 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
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• src/python/isaaccapture/ovxr_session_manager/gpu_output.py
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• src/python/isaaccapture/ovxr_session_manager/owned_mirror.py
• tests/python/core/ovxr_session_manager/conftest.py
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Design comments on the frame-consumer interface and desktop mirror. See the summary on #1294.

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Re-review of ae48621: two issues worth fixing in the mirror.