Did anyone try to synchronize the object's position between 2 Hololens 2 devices without an internet connection?
I am using Photon to do it for Hololens 2 glasses in the same LAN. When one player moves an object, other people can see it, but the real position of the object in the room is not matched, because each device has an independent coordination system.
What is the best way to solve this problem?
Thanks!
What you need is to bind the holographic to the physical world. It is recommended to use local spatial anchors to ensure anchored holograms stay precisely in place so that the holographic in different devices will remain fixed in the same position of the physical world, and then follow the doc Local anchor transfers in Unity to enable one HoloLens device to export an anchor to be imported by a second HoloLens device.
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I’m creating an IOT device with some unusual needs when compared with typical home automation. I wanted to ask if anyone knew of a mesh protocol (Zigbee, Thread, BLE Mesh), that might be able to achieve this user experience:
When someone turns on their device, it looks to connect to a mesh network, comprised of other devices they have previously “friended”.
If no network is found, it creates its own mesh network, available for other “friended” devices to connect to, when those devices turn on.
If the device creates its own mesh network (as in behaviour above), but no one connects to it – and then the device finds a different network with more than one friend on it, the device should kill its own network in favour of connecting to the other.
I’m expecting that there will not be a “master” node who has “friended” every possible device that wants to join the network – I’d like the possibility for “friends” to bring their “friends”, to also join the network.
If a partition in the network occurs (this is very likely to occur in my use case), the network should automatically re-form when the devices are close to each other again.
All devices are expected to be identical in function, size, software – so BLE Mesh is probably not suitable given it needs a “Provisioner”?
Messages transferred will be bespoke to this application – ruling out Zigbee’s Application Layer?
Messages will be small in size, so data transfer speed is not a big concern.
I believe from what I’ve read that Thread is probably the most suitable for this use case – but wanted some other opinions to see what the best choice might be?
Seems to be a bit of a mine field to fully understand the ins and outs of all of these mesh protocols!
I believe Thread/OpenThread addresses all of the use case items you listed above.
I am trying to find a clever way to keep a BLE app active in the background on iOS 6, without breaking any of Apple's rules. I plan to use the phone as a peripheral device and another BLE circuit as the central. My app will automatically be opened when a user arrives to a building using geofencing. After that the iPhone will connect to the first BLE central device it sees (the device will be in its white list). The user will then be able to move throughout the building switching to different BLE "nodes".
My question is: What do I need to do in the background when a user is stationary at their desk so that the app does not get suspended due to memory resources?
My idea is based on this solution for a separate problem: There could potentially (not regularly) be 10-50 users in an area with only a few BLE "nodes" and I read at bluetooth.org that I could setup a dynamic connection system, basically rotating connections through all the users.
My idea is to setup a similar dynamic system where the central device (not the iPhone) disconnects the device on regular intervals (30-40 minutes) and then the iPhone will reconnect.
Is this something that some feasible? Is this against the iOS development guidelines? I was unable to find anything explicit about this. I have also asked on the iOS developer forum, but unfortunately it is not as popular as this site.
Thanks in advance!
Xcode -> Project target -> Capabilities -> Enable background mode
Check Uses Bluetooth LE Accessories
Capabilities
Also enable the following key in .plist file
Required background modes
App communicates using CoreBluetooth
Plist
I'm trying to create an app which powers an external accessory but I am not sure how to do it. Any hints or ideas?
All i plan on doing right now is have a UIView app that sends power to an external accessory.
Is this something that you would even code?
I would have thought that you just have a small amount of power to the device, regardless of the software running on the iphone/ipad/itouch.
That's going to be tricky and probably not in the scope of coding. First, you'd probably need to be a member of the Apple Made For iPhone (MFi) program and have to build your device to work in those specs.
Then you'd need to have the iOS device become the master USB device and your device become a slave (if I remember my USB controller configurations correctly - it's been 6 years).
But your first step is to get into the MFi program.
http://developer.apple.com/programs/mfi/
I recently downloaded a barcode reading application for my phone, an LG KU990i (AKA the Viewty) However, there's a problem that renders the application nearly useless: the Viewty has 2 cameras -- the main one, and a secondary camera located on the face of the unit -- and it is the secondary camera that is unfortunately set as the phone's default video capture device. As you can't point the secondary at anything and see what it's pointing at at the same time, it makes it a bit difficult to snap a barcode!
According to the JSR-135 spec, it is possible to specify a video capture device other than the default... if you know the device name. This does not appear to be documented anywhere on LG's Web site, nor does the JSR-135 spec describe any way of enumerating the devices on a phone... or is there? Failing that, are there any naming conventions for video devices commonly in use that LG might be using?
I've logged a ticket with LG, but as it's an old device, I don't imagine them breaking their backs in getting back to me... I should also point out that this is purely for my own curiosity so no-one here should feel obliged to break their backs either!
As far as I know there is no way to get list of all available catpure:// urls.
All urls I know:
capture://image,
capture://video
capture://devcam0
capture://devcam1
Source:
http://www.forum.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/bc00e4ce-7df3-4527-962c-d39843a808d0/MIDP_Mobile_Media_API_Support_In_Nokia_Devices_v1_0_en.pdf.html
LG responded to my support ticket. Apparently, it's not possible to access the primary camera on the Viewty from Java, making it pretty much useless for barcode scanning. Answer reproduced here for search engines.
You support ticket has been answered. Please visit the LG Mobile Developer Network and login to check the answer at [My Page > My Tickets].
KU990i default video capture device is the secondary camera
Answer :
Hi,
KU990i have to Two camera module
differently.
Main camera using Joran chipset and
sub(front camera) using Qualcomm
chipset.
Joran chip doesn’t supported JSR135.
Therefore, we couldn’t supported to
the JSR135 using for main camera.
(it is H/W limitation)
It was inform to operator already and
we remember operator was confirm it.
So that, we only supported sub camera
for JSR135.
BR,
I want to be able to pair Microsoft PixelSense hardware with multiple mobile devices via bluetooth and I want PixelSense to know which device is which. So if I place two phones on a table, PixelSense should be able to label them by device name. My initial thought was to have the phone display an Identity Tag that has encoded its Bluetooth MAC address so that it could associate them but PixelSense sees in infrared and can't read the phone screen so that idea is out. Can anyone think of another way to do this?
Microsoft has demonstrated a way to do this in their Mobile Connect sample application. They've ingeniously used the fact that almost all phones have a camera that faces down when the phone is placed on a flat surface. So they created an app that will read incoming color data from Surface while the phone is sitting on it.
So it goes like this:
The Surface app starts and makes the Surface computer itself visible on bluetooth (although you may have to do this manually in admin mode, can't remember)
you run the mobile app on your phone, click connect, and place it on the Surface at a designated spot
the Surface flashes a serious of colors into the phone's camera
the phone decodes those colors into a pin and scans through all the open bluetooth devices it can see until it finds one that is a desktop running the appropriate service and accepts the decoded pin.
Now the two are connected with no need for manual input and the Surface knows which physical device it's talking to because it knows which pin it displayed to each device.
*Note - They don't actually allow multiple simultaneous connections in this sample app, but I see no reason why it wouldn't work.
One issue with this approach (other than being pretty complicated to code), is the need for the app on the phone. One way to make it easier for people to get the app is to display a Microsoft Tag or qrcode on the Surface for people to scan (they're much more likely to have a scanning app already). I don't think there's any getting around the need to have something installed on the phone if you're using bluetooth anyway.