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Hololens Compass

Hi !

I'm trying to build a compass for Hololens to be able to know which way we are looking.
I cannot seem to find anything that can help me do that.

Does Hololens have a usable compass built in ?
If not, how may I "emulate" one ?

I've tried to use the Camera.main.transform.rotation.y to get something similar but there are not 360 degrees when I use the values.

Thank you in advance.

Comments

  • Hololens does not have a compass as far as I know. And if it does you can not access it directly from Unity. So your only option (at least for now) is to use a compass from an external device (e.g. your phone) and send its values to hololens over Network/Bluetooth/the Internet.

    Try eulerAngles from Unity to get values from 0-360 for the camera rotation. https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform-eulerAngles.html

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