Project Babble is a source first mouth tracking project designed to work with any VR headset. We strive to make our models robust to different lighting, cameras, image qualities and facial structures!
By defualt Project Babble is under a non-commerical license! Please contact us at projectbabblevr@gmail.com to obtain a commercial license!
- 100% free and source available! 🌟
- Fast and robust! 🚀
- Works with existing blendshape standards! ⚙️
- Constantly updated and modified! 🔧
Head to the releases section and download the latest installer.
Install git, curl and a version of python (between 3.8 and 3.12) for your distro.
Then, copy paste and run the following script into the terminal of your choice:
bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dfgHiatus/e1bce63cd6be1e8645c3b3adfd5b71a6/raw/26561da3b2bcf738f580176229e4853c18ddf554/project-babble-installer-latest.sh)"bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dfgHiatus/a92a3caae24c1bfab1c7544537a654c5/raw/63573d5c882b4152c9434b9dd4bc888573fe9e98/project-babble-installer-tagged.sh)"Once it's finished installing, you can update and run the Babble app by typing babble-app into your terminal. You should also be able to run the Windows executable through Wine!
Sometimes, the update script can error out if there are updates to pull from git. Fear not, re-rerunning the script in most cases fixes things.
If your GUI window shows just the top row of radio buttons, set a resolution for the Babble App manually in KDE's Window Settings. 800x600y is a good starting point with plenty of empty space.
If you receive a ["Error listing UVC devices on Linux ... No such file or directory"] when choosing/changing your camera, you'll need to install video4linux (v4l-utils) for your distro.
For Ubuntu or other distros with apt:
sudo apt-get install v4l-utilsIf you receive a ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tkinter' error message on run, you'll need to install tkinter for your distro.
For Ubuntu or other distros with apt:
sudo apt-get install python3-tkFor Fedora:
sudo dnf install python3-tkinterFor MacOS:
brew install python-tkYou can read more about this here and here.
If you have trouble connecting to your Babble Board (IE being denied permission to access it), you will need to set up and configure udev rules.
We have integrations for VRChat, Resonite and ChilloutVR!
Looking for something else? Check out our documentation!