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Compass: absolute NSEW orientation
Hi guys, I'd like to use a real compass: to get an absolute NSEW heading of the Oculus instead of an orientation relative to the initial state. I'm trying to to this using the OVRDevice.GetMagne...
Your environment will have a huge effect on it. If you have a lot of steel anywhere near you, the compass will read that more than the Earth. Your sensor readings will only be locally consistent at best, move just a few feet and you might get very different results.
The physical cause for distortion on the STEM and Hydra are actually quite different from a magnetometer, so you can't really predict the performance of one based on the other. Magnetometers read a static field while STEM reads the change over time of a pulsing field.
The physical cause for distortion on the STEM and Hydra are actually quite different from a magnetometer, so you can't really predict the performance of one based on the other. Magnetometers read a static field while STEM reads the change over time of a pulsing field.