Logitech Pro 9000 and Artoolkit

Posted in Augmented Reality, Blended Reality, Linux - September 16, 2010 - 0 Comment

I’m doing a little augmented reality work for my day job, using ARToolKit. ARToolKit works, and is documented, which is a combination of features that appears to be unique in open-source augmented reality software.

I configured my build to use GStreamer, and set my ARTOOLKIT_CONFIG environment variable to v4l2src device=/dev/video0 use-fixed-fps=false ! ffmpegcolorspace ! capsfilter caps=video/x-raw-rgb,bpp=24,width=640,height=480 ! identity name=artoolkit ! fakesink

That gives a good tradeoff between resolution and speed, and works just fine with the simpleLite demo program that comes with ARToolKit.

Augmented Reality is like normal reality, but better