[IGSTK-Developers] Re: Question about IGSTK and Polaris

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Alessandro,

It is great to hear that you are interested in using IGSTK.

You will find examples on how to use the Polaris tracker
in the IGSTK book that you can download from:

http://isiswiki.georgetown.edu/DataServer/Data/Public/IGSTKTheBook.pdf

You will find a detailed description of the example in
Section 17.3 in pdf-pages 241-243.


A source code Examples of how to use the PolarisTracker
can be found in the file


        IGSTK/Testing/igstkPolarisTrackerTest.cxx


Given that the IGSTK trackers have a very similar API, you can
also simply take any of the examples under:

                 IGSTK/Examples/

and replace their tracker with the PolarisTracker class.

for example,

A) in IGSTK/Examples/HelloWorld/HelloWorld.cxx replace
    the MouseTracker with a PolarisTracker type.

B) in IGSTK/Examples/OneViewAndTracking/
          OneViewAndTrackingImplementation.h

    replace the igstkAuroraTracker with the igstkPolarisTracker

C) in IGSTK/Examples/FourViewsAndTracking/
         FourViewsAndTrackingImplementation.h

    replace the igstkAuroraTracker with the igstkPolarisTracker


Note that, of course, you have to replace both the #include of
the header file, and the typedef declaration of TrackerType.


We also encourage you to join the IGSTK users list.


Please give it a try to the examples above and let us know
if you find any problems.



      Thanks


        Luis



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Alessandro De Mauro wrote:
> Hi Luis,
> I am working, for my PhD, about augmented reality applied to the 
> neurosurgical field.
> I find your work (IGSTK) very interesting and I am evaluating the 
> possibility to use it in my code.
> Because I need to use Polaris system I woul like to ask you if you have 
> some example or some simply code to show the interaction between Polaris 
> and IGSTK.
> Thanks you in advance,
>       Alessandro
>