attempting to converting skyzone fpv goggles into VR hearset

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id like to start by saying that i know this isnt a rc hobby forum. but i figured the someone here may know the type of program i need for my project.

so this may or may not be ether fesable or easy. but all the proper equipment is already in place. i just need to put it all to work now.

so im a big time rc hobbiest. and ive taken notice of how simaler fpv goggles are to VR head sets.

its got head tracking.
video wire input
DVR recording
its got a builtin monitor.(albeit tiny, but with decent resolution)
and my personal set of goggles are 2d and 3d compatible with single and dual 5.8gh receivers.
also...they both cost a s***ton of money

now personally, i don't care about 3d to start with. standard 2d visuals are fine with me. and it may be really hard to get the VR 3d to agree with fpv 3d. how ever. the goggles do a great job of showing 2d video as it appears from a video camera. and headtracking a camera looks cool as h*** and almost identical to VR. but with less dizziness.

anyways. i figured if they were so simaler. maybe i could decode the cppm output from the head tracking, maybe to pwm if i need to, and then to usb, the same way rc simulators do. except instead of running a simulator. convert it in to gamepad commands and use it for the headtracking options in some games.

now i may not currently have the gear to convert signals 6-8cppm to pc yet. but i know theres a way even if i have to send the signal through my devo12 and bla bla bla to get it to the pc in a usable form.

so ive proven that its not an affordable concept for jury rigged VR. but a cool project for someone who already has the gear. and if you are a fpv pilot. you probably may can do this with most fpv goggles even with out 3d and with any controller that can reassign outputs like mine.

so my question is.

-if i can get a video feed to sync up
-if i can get the proper pwm or cppm signal to the pc

is there a program that exist to convert pwm signals to game pad.

i know this isnt a rc hobby forum, but my Friend uses pwm signals all the time with his arduirno, which i beleave is commonly used to program rc models with from scratch in many projects. and i have seen people convert gamepad to pwm all the time. has anyone done the opposite. i figured if anyone had that experience or knowledge this might be the place to find it.

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I think the real question is, is it worth the bother to use the FPV goggles as a computer display?

I wouldn't call the headtracking aspect of the project trivial but it certainly wouldn't be very hard as long as you knew how to generate the output expected by the computer.

You certainly wouldn't need the goggles to make some sort of head tracking gizmo. IMU's have gotten pretty easy to use nowadays and they're not very expensive.

What resolution and framerate can the goggles use? Do they expect NTSC input? Will people want to play computer games at 30fps and 480 lines of resolution?

I imagine video from an airborne camera looks really cool with your goggles but I have doubts modern computer games would look very impressive on the goggles.

I think you'd need a video card capable of generating NTSC output. The Raspberry Pi can output NTSC video but I don't think most computers have this option.

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i didn't think about the video format. that might be a problem. as a side note they may take pal, but i think that might be irreverent. i dont know what pc's output. but the resolution isnt crazy terrible. its actually got 900 lines i beleave, and looks smoother than i expected. i expected it to look as bad as occulos rift dev kit 1.

but really the only reason i came up with this is i dont like 3d, and i have all of the things that are expensive. and there just a lot more comfortable than my friends dev kit 1. something im sure they have probably fix by now with newer models