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Vuforia and Vive

By Dover8 on Thu, 01/07/2016 - 11:29

With the announcement of the HTC Vive adding the front facing camera, and seemingly full access to it in their SDK, can we hope to see the Vuforia SDK allowing us to utalise the front camera to enable mixed reality applications? Especially as both products offer Unity 3D based SDKs.

Bumping because I'd also like to know the answer to this question. There is enourmous potential here if Vuforia and Vive can easily integrate with one another. 

It's possible as it is just pc based.
I own a vive and you could eventually just buy an logitech Webcam as the vive has an additional USB port available on the HMD for 3rd party stuff.

Has Anybody figured out this? I would like to use HTC vive camera or Webcam to capture stuff with vuforia and present it to VR. 

 

Hello,

Unfortunately, the Vive is not a supported device of the Vuforia SDK: https://library.vuforia.com/content/vuforia-library/en/articles/Training/Vuforia-for-Digital-Eyewear.html

Apologies for the inconvenience,

Vuforia Support

I'm still confused about this. How is it that Vuforia can work in the Unity Editor (play mode) but we cannot do a build for Windows and use the webcam? Now that the Vive pro has stereo cameras this is becoming even more desirable as there's no good method for AR in the Vive.