Problem scanning tables with Spatial Processing

LuisPalencia · October 2017

Hi,

We are developing a hololens app which is played over a table. We are using the Spatial Processing prefab, in the holotoolkit, but we have some problems. Sometimes it doesn't detect the table correctly. What can we do in order to improve the scan of tables?

Thanks!

Luis.

james_ashley · October 2017

Hi Luis,

It would help if you could describe more fully what sorts of problems you are encountering.

James

CristianGómez · October 2017

Hi @james_ashley ,

I am working with @LuisPalencia and the problem that we are having is as follows:
we are using the SpatialProcessing to detect tables but, when we run the app, it detects floor as a table as well as creating tables around the room. In the SurfaceMeshesToPlanes script we select table in the Draw Planes section and destroy all planes except this one.

In the Unity editor and hololens emulator, the app works well. We would be grateful if you could help us because we can't advance in our project.

Thanks for your help!
Cristian.

CristianGómez · October 2017

Hi again @james_ashley ,

We have found the error in our project. It didn't exist a 31 layer called Spatial Mapping so it was a problem. However, we have another problem that we haven't mentioned before. HoloLens generates tables but some of them appeared rotated. How can we fix this problem?

Thanks again!
Cristian.

james_ashley · October 2017

@CristianGómez ,

I've never seen rotation before. That's a really odd bug. Some of this you may already have working but just in case:

You might want to try a different version of Unity if you are currently on the latest build. 2017.1.2 is working well for me.
You have both the spatial mapping and spatial understanding components in your scene, right (sorry if that's a dumb question)?
Have you run the sample or test apps for spatial understanding to see if they are running correctly (I ask about both because I can't remember where the actual sample project is currently located for this)?

James

CristianGómez · October 2017

@james_ashley

Spatial Understanding test works well but we are not using Spatial Understanding component, we are using Spatial Processing component. It's very weird because we have used Holograms 230 and it does not generate tables rotated.

I think that the problem can be the generation of meshes but we don't know how to improve it. The Spatial Mapping component has not been modified.

Thanks again and sorry for so many questions.
Cristian.

dbarrett · October 2017

I am pretty sure you need the Spatial Understanding component in order for the Spatial Processing to work properly. The only reason you did not need it in Holograms 230 is because you used a custom Shader in order to detect walls. (Blue Lines On Walls). Spatial Understanding is there in order to smooth out the meshes.

CristianGómez · October 2017

Hi @dbarrett ,

Do you refer to use the full SpatialUnderstanding component?

CristianGómez · November 2017

We could find the problems to our project, thus I will explain them if this post helps someone.

As I said in other comments, we are developing an app that needs to recognize a table to play a game. In the stage of recognition, we had several troubles towards the table since it sometimes appeared rotated. The fact of that it occurs is due to the material of the table. In our case, the colour of the table was black and the light was reflected on it, because of the material. Therefore, it made the tables be generated incorrectly.

In order to fix this problem, we changed the table for another one that had a different material, that is, a material that stopped reflecting the light on the table.

I hope that this post be useful for someone,
Cristian.

Problem scanning tables with Spatial Processing

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