Petition to allow developers access to camera feed
I know that Meta says that for privacy reasons developers can't access the camera feed but without direct camera access it is almost impossible to develop a good mixed-reality app. If the developers are unable to see what the user is seeing how are we supposed to develop actual augmented reality content, having access to the camera feed would unlock many new kinds of applications that would help give a scope to the existence of the mixed reality headsets. I am creating this discussion for two reasons: 1) I would like to understand how many developers have the same problem 2) Find a solution to the privacy problem My proposed solution would be to require specific authorization from the user and to display some kind of signal (like the green dot that appears on Android) that the app has access to the camera while it is being used because this is both an issue for the user and the people around him it would probably be necessary to add an LED on the outside of the headset that blinks when the camera feed is being accessed (something like the meta ray ban smart glasses). I believe that camera feed access will be necessary sometime in the future of this technology (maybe when it will be a pair of smart glasses) and it would be cool to be able to develop apps for that vision. P.S. I know that there are other discussions about the same topic but I belive that we should all discuss in one to attract meta attention.
How to access camera image on SDK 56 ?
Hi, Can we access to camera of headset in our application ? How we can perform this ? For developping a mixed reality application for one of our clients, we etudying the possibility to track an object in space by using some visual markers in real world to match position of a virtual replication of this objects in the simulation (it's an medical simulation). But I didn't see any entries in documentation that mention the possibility to access cameras to apply our image computing algorithm. I see trougth this forum that's camera access was blocked for privacy reasons, but I wonder if with the releasing of Meta Quest 3 headset this rules could be changed ? I see we could use shared spatial anchors instead, but in case of my client have to setup his experience in differents rooms, it's not way quicker and easier solution. Thx for your help !