October 2018

How to get audio from my Persee? Part 2

...here's the surprise. The device available is named "Android audio device", not Orbbec at all. If you debug what else is available in the device list in Unity, there is nothing else, unfortunately. Frequency is 44100 Hz, the same...

September 2018

How to get audio from my Persee? Part 1

...go around the problem by using the device channel and operating system directly. This is of course simple stuff for those who work a lot with device interfaces and perhaps less obvious for application developers...

July 2018

My Persee just got faster!

...In this article I just give you and example of what performance improvements mean in a practical application. I earlier had to modify the core AstraController to speed things up. Now I swapped back to the original way of using Unity events and their bindings...

June 2018

Astra Pro distance range

...which allows us to turn every depth pixel into a color pixel on the screen. I've modified it to show different color for all the pixels within a specified range in millimeters. Also I added simple calculations for finding the far and near pixels as well as the...

April 2018

Why suddenly no output from Persee?

...No data streams available on any device. Development stopped. Testing stopped. Inspirational moments of high-speed coding gone. Whoohoo! After verifying it is indeed a device independent issue and after trying the binary...

March 2018

The best event for Persee is no event!

...Then what? Hacking time, of course! After spending (too many!) hours of trying this, trying that, I've started to question my assumptions. What if it is the SDK itself that has the biggest bottleneck? At this point I...

February 2018

Skeleton renderer for Orbbec+Unity

...the joint prefab and set its position to where the joint locates. Simple. Here, I added: Vector3 arrays for connecting each joint to the simplemost bone structure (yes, exactly like in the song) for each limb and torso (lines 2-6)...

January 2018

Getting started with Orbbec+Unity development with Astra Pro and Persee

...The system architecture, especially of Persee, is full of promise. Before 2017 ended, we’ve got the long-promised support for Unity in Astra SDK 2.0.7 Beta release. My best Christmas...

December 2017

Kinect is dead, long live Orbbec!

...At this moment, there is a huge bunch of Kinect applications out there needing an update to a newer hardware, Orbbec being the closest thing. But what’s the difference when moving on from Kinect to Orbbec? Let’s take a...