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New Participant
November 6, 2017

Object Tracking with Oculus SDK

Hi,
I asked myself if it would be possible to track more objects than the headset and the oculus controllers with the SDK.

I found, that both have integrated infrared LEDs with a certain blinking pattern, that is then tracked by the cameras.

Now my question is: Is it possible to add some LEDs with other blinking patterns to different devices like e.g. a tablet and kind of teach the cameras those patterns to enable object tracking and displaying it in a Unity scene? 
And further, is there some possibility to do this via the Oculus SDK or is it more like a black box and has to be done via a video stream and computing or the like?

Maybe somebody has an idea and could help me!
Anyway, thank you in advance! :smile:

2 replies

Up and Coming
November 6, 2017
Over two years ago Oculus announced that they'd be opening Constellation tracking to third parties but I suppose a lot has changed since then.

https://www.roadtovr.com/oculus-to-open-rift-constellation-positional-tracking-api-to-third-parties/

New Participant
November 7, 2017
That's terrible.. I really need access to it.. Getting or using another tracking solution just because they don't open it is a waste.