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Is the B15 robot app, source code or documentation available?
I'd love to see how the B15's position is tracked. Can we try out the app? Or is there any documentation describing how the app for the B15 was built and what light/position tracking technology it uses?
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I don't think that was ever released to the public.
If I'm allowed to speculate, I would say the physical robot was fitted with a "HoloLens" like motherboard that was able to track its position in space just like the HoloLens. From there you can use the Sharing modules (as shown in Holograms 240) to track the position and overlay a hologram on top of it.
Toronto-HoloLens | Blog | @alexdrenea
Back last Fall when I went to demo the Hololens I inquired about object tracking for the Hololens. They pointed me to the B15 robot demo saying that the 4 LEDs on the robot allowed the Hololens to determine its position:
http://forums.hololens.com/discussion/comment/168#Comment_168
There are some general principles discussed in the documentation. Unfortunately, we would need to have something working for OpenCV in Unity for this to function well. Honestly, I'm waiting for Vuforia to finally release for the Hololens. Then the world will open up for us developers.
The robot and the Hololens do have to share information as @AlexD says but the positional tracking of the robot was via the hololens tracking the LEDs on the robot according to the Microsoft people I spoke to last Fall. I too would love to peer into their source code to see how they did this.
Interesting stuff. Didn't hear about the LED tracking thing. Will read on it.
Toronto-HoloLens | Blog | @alexdrenea
For anyone running across this thread, the Microsoft team posted the robot source at https://github.com/ms-iot/holobot. The Hololens app solution is not included, but the information about the robot is excellent.