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Body Tracking beyond HeadPose
Hi,
I see that in the API we can get the Vector3s associated with the head pose, but so far not successful in locating any lower level API to track the user's skeleton or partial or estimated skeleton, given the camera angles involved. Can anyone point the way or clarify if this information is not available in the first devkit API release?
Anything close to Kinect-like skeletal tracking in an initial public API? Or way to capture at lower level than the gestural APIs interpolated skeletal positions.... I see head pose tracking, higher level gestures, but unable to locate LArm /RArm tracking, or if the orientation of the trunk can be inferred... Assume might be able to indirectly triangulate and measure estimated approximate height of the user relative to the ground at a point in time and from the max and min and accelerations infer the user is hunched over or doing knee bends or infer or at least confabulate something reasonable as a model for the unseen skeleton even without a direct camera tracking the entire body....
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.perception.people.headpose.aspx
or SpatialPointerPose...for head positions
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ChimeraScorn
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The HoloLens always tracks where it itself is in space, but does not try to track the user's skeleton as Kinect did. It would be possible to set up an environment which uses Kinect to track the user, and then shares the skeletal data back with the device over WiFi, but that is not a mainline scenario.
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https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.ui.input.spatial.spatialnavigationupdatedeventargs.normalizedoffset.aspx -- I guess this Vector3 could indirectly have some of that info...and track the spatialManipulationDelta.translation as perhaps the hands.
The HoloLens always tracks where it itself is in space, but does not try to track the user's skeleton as Kinect did. It would be possible to set up an environment which uses Kinect to track the user, and then shares the skeletal data back with the device over WiFi, but that is not a mainline scenario.