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ZacSVR
5 years agoHonored Guest
Getting accurate timestamps for rotation data
Hello,
I'm developing an app for Oculus Go using Unity 2019.1.12f1, the Oculus Unity Integration v16.0, and VRTK v3.3.
I want to save the rotation of the headset regularly to plot on a graph later. So, for each rotation value, I need to get the most accurate timestamp possible. In the future, I'll be measuring the position of the headset too (on a better headset). Here's roughly what I'm doing, in a MonoBehaviour class that I'm attaching to an object in the scene:
Here is my problem: I'm saving the rotation value and the timestamp at the same point in the code, but I don't know if the timestamp is accurate. How do we know precisely at what time the rotation of the headset object was set?
Having done some testing, I think that the headset's rotation data is updated once every frame. When FixedUpdate is called twice in one frame, the headset rotation is the same in both calls. I found that FixedUpdate gets the same rotation data as Update, but a couple of milliseconds earlier (since FixedUpdate is called before Update).
In the Oculus Unity Integration, it looks like the script OVRCameraRig.cs is responsible for updating the GameObject's transform. I tried enabling the useFixedUpdateForTracking property, but this didn't seem to change anything.
Does anyone know how to best get accurate timestamps for the values of the position and rotation of a headset?
Thank you!
I'm developing an app for Oculus Go using Unity 2019.1.12f1, the Oculus Unity Integration v16.0, and VRTK v3.3.
I want to save the rotation of the headset regularly to plot on a graph later. So, for each rotation value, I need to get the most accurate timestamp possible. In the future, I'll be measuring the position of the headset too (on a better headset). Here's roughly what I'm doing, in a MonoBehaviour class that I'm attaching to an object in the scene:
// The object representing the headset, set in the Unity editor:
// (Uses VRTK's VRTK_SDKObjectAlias script to get the transform of the Oculus OVRCameraRig object)
public GameObject headsetObject;
private string previousRotation;
void FixedUpdate()
{
// Get the headset rotation and time
string headsetRotation = headsetObject.transform.rotation.eulerAngles.ToString("f3");
string curTime = Time.time.ToString("f6");
// Check that the latest rotation isn't equal to the previous value we collected
bool isDuplicate = headsetRotation == previousRotation;
if (isDuplicate)
{
return;
}
// Save the rotation and time somewhere
...
latestRotation = headsetRotation;
}Here is my problem: I'm saving the rotation value and the timestamp at the same point in the code, but I don't know if the timestamp is accurate. How do we know precisely at what time the rotation of the headset object was set?
Having done some testing, I think that the headset's rotation data is updated once every frame. When FixedUpdate is called twice in one frame, the headset rotation is the same in both calls. I found that FixedUpdate gets the same rotation data as Update, but a couple of milliseconds earlier (since FixedUpdate is called before Update).
In the Oculus Unity Integration, it looks like the script OVRCameraRig.cs is responsible for updating the GameObject's transform. I tried enabling the useFixedUpdateForTracking property, but this didn't seem to change anything.
Does anyone know how to best get accurate timestamps for the values of the position and rotation of a headset?
Thank you!
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