Headitude

AirPods Orientation to OSC Sender

Starting with macOS Sonoma 14.0 it is possible to access the orientation data of Apple AirPods using the CoreMotion framework. The Headitude app reads the orientation data and forwards it via OSC to a specified IP address and port.

⚠️ Note: The app is in an early stage of development and might not provide peak user experience just yet. It's my first Swift/SwiftUI app, so don't expect best practices. 😉 But please let me know if you have any suggestions!! 🙏

Calibration

The app doesn't know how you wear your AirPods. Therefore you need to calibrate the orientation data. Luckily, my calibration routine is very quick, and can be done in a fraction of a second (if you're fast enough).

While you are wearing your AirPods:

• look forward
• press and hold the Press, Nod, Release button
• nod your head down
• while looking down, release the button
• 🎉 you're done!

Internally, it uses the gravity data and some quaternion magic to calculate the calibration data. ✨

You can do a soft reset to reset the front direction by pressing the Reset Orientation button.

The calibration data is stored in the user defaults and will be loaded on the next start of the app. :floppy_disk:

Custom OSC Message

The OSC message can be customized:

/<osc/address> <token> <token>

The tokens will then be replaced by float values.

E.g. for the IEM SceneRotator VST plug-in you might want to use:

/SceneRotator/ypr yaw pitch roll

Currently the following tokens are supported:

• yaw Yaw-angle in degrees [-180, 180]

• yaw+ Yaw-angle in degrees [0, 360]

• pitch Pitch-angle in degrees [-180, 180]

• pitch+ Pitch-angle in degrees [0, 360]

• roll Roll-angle in degrees [-180, 180]

• roll+ Roll-angle in degrees [0, 360]

• yawRad Yaw-angle in radians [-pi, pi]

• yawRad+ Yaw-angle in radians [0, 2pi]

• pitchRad Pitch-angle in radians [-pi, pi]

• pitchRad+ Pitch-angle in radians [0, 2pi]

• rollRad Roll-angle in radians [-pi, pi]

• rollRad+ Roll-angle in radians [0, 2pi]

• qw Quaternion w

• qx Quaternion x

• qy Quaternion y

• qz Quaternion z

Note: You can prepend a token with a - to flip the sign, e.g. -yaw or -yawRad.