Apparently education pricing is only $300 though.

I sometimes think that I should take a 0.5 credit online course at my local community college every once in a while so I can abuse those sweet, sweet education discounts.

Last time I was thinking this was actually for the same project. Point Grey makes some sweet-ass USB 3.0 cameras that can do 120 fps, I pump it into a Jetson, distort it for the screen and add overlays, then dump it back out to my Vive. Boom, ghetto augmented-reality setup.

It's a tricky project in a technical sense in several respects - you need wide angles plus decent resolution plus fast framerate and low response times. The really nice thing about PointGrey's cameras is not only are they fast and hi-res, they have plain old C-mounts, so I could use real superwide TV lenses instead of ghetto crap I tore out of webcams. The downside is, they retail for like $700 a pop or something.