Real Time High Resolution 3D Data on the HoloLens
The recent appearance of augmented reality headsets, such as the Microsoft HoloLens, is a marked move from traditional 2D screen to 3D hologram like interfaces. Striving to be completely portable, these devices unfortunately suffer multiple limitations, such as the lack of real time, high quality depth data, which severely restricts their use as research tools. To mitigate this restriction, we provide a simple method to augment a HoloLens headset with much higher resolution depth data. To do so, we calibrate an external depth sensor connected to a computer stick that communicates with the HoloLens headset in real time. To show how this system could be useful to the research community, we present an implementation of small object detection on HoloLens device.
2016 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR Adjunct)