[IGSTK-Developers] Tracking with Polaris Vicra is not working :-(

[Patrick Cheng]

Hi Zein,

Did you supply the correct SROM file (use full path) that matches your 
wireless tool and position the tool in the working volume of Plaris 
Vicra while running the testing program?

Patrick

On 1/7/2011 12:11 PM, Zein Salah wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> I am sorry if I am annoying with my emails, but I spent the whole day
> searching for a possible bug!
> My program no longer wants to dealt with the NDI Vicra camera :-(.
> When I require the connection to the camera, it beeps as if everything
> were ok, but tracking does not work. In other words, I always get
> position (0,0,0) for all tools. I debugged the code and found
> that IsValidNow()
> (see below) fails. Any idea what could be going wrong?! I attached
> the log file. Maybe you can deduce something from it.
> Thanks,
> Zein
> coordSystemAObserver_0->Clear();
> trackerTool_0->RequestGetTransformToParent();
> if (coordSystemAObserver_0->GotTransform()) {
>      transform = coordSystemAObserver_0->GetTransform();
> if ( transform.IsValidNow() ) {    // This test fails
>          position = transform.GetTranslation();
>          ...
>          ...
> }
> }
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Zein Salah <zeinsalah at gmail.com
> <mailto:zeinsalah at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>     I managed to connect to the NDI Vicra camera, by editing a piece of
>     code from
>     PolarisTrackerTest, and could read tracking data. Now, I have a
>     problem which
>     I cannot define. When I require the connection to the camera, it
>     beeps as if
>     everything were ok, but tracking does not work. In essence, the test
>     "if (coordSystemAObserver_1->GotTransform())"  fails.
>     How can I test if the connection has been established and the
>     tracker is working?
>     Much thanks,
>     Zein
>
>
>
>
>
>
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