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Do you have any plans release this as an app I could install on my phone?
by starwind 5y ago
Do you have any plans release this as an app I could install on my phone?
- frizensami 5y agoYes, we do! There are a couple of user-facing annoyances at the moment, one of which I mentioned in another comment (hacks to align the color and ToF images). Hopefully these API limitations are removed soon, or we find better workarounds.
- Iolaum 5y agoAwesome, if there's a waiting list or a website that we can join or follow to be notified of a release please share.
- frizensami 5y agoSadly no project-specific page yet, but I'll definitely update on my page at https://sriramsami.com/research/ https://sriramsami.com/research/ (I think there's an RSS feed?) when it's active.
- specto 5y agohttps://sriramsami.com/feed.xml https://sriramsami.com/feed.xml
- iamwil 5y agoIt's easy to set up a mailing list. Just sign up for mailchimp, or any one of the many newsletter products like substack or tinyletters, just to collect the email addresses. Not many people regularly read RSS anymore, sadly.
- iamwil 5y agoWhere do we sign up to be notified when this is released?
- jmnicolas 5y agoIf you do release it, is it possible to not depend on Google services please? I am almost a year in my degoogled life!
- frizensami 5y agoI would love to, but I'm not sure how yet without a major re-write. The augmented reality code we completely rely on is part of Google Play Services for AR. I definitely do understand the benefit of degoogling, so maybe it can be a community effort once I opensource it.
- robotresearcher 5y ago> Google Play Services for AR. Google’s branding is awful.
- lrem 5y agoGoogle Play Music All Access -> YouTube Red Man, we're so bad at naming, that we keep joking about it... And trying to satire that with internal codenames (the ones engineers give without adult supervision)... And somehow those often seem better than the external names :(
- bradknowles 5y agoSo does this mean the app will not be available on iPhone?
- frizensami 5y agoIt could also possibly work on iOS, but there's a catch we have not yet explored. We're relying on something called the "confidence" score in the ToF camera API, which has 8 possible values (3 bits) in Android, but from what I last saw, has only 3 possible values total in iOS. It's not clear how this lack of info exposed by the APi will affect accuracy. This is something we'd have to separately test, and ultimately make a wholly different app for if it's feasible on iOS.
- david_allison 5y agoWould you consider open sourcing the app as-is? You've got a community of people who're willing to spend time polishing.
- frizensami 5y agoIt's definitely something I'm considering. The only hard blocker now is a hashmap that checks for our test phones' unique ID and applies a fixed transform to align both cameras. Right now, any other phones will cause an immediate crash. Minimally I think we need to disable this and maybe include a small UI to let users put in the alignment parameters (just a scale + offset).
- frizensami 5y agoAlso I appreciate the interest, thank you. I'm heading back from the conference over the next few days, so I should be more free to take a look at it soon.
- david_allison 5y agoFeel free to shoot me an email (in profile) if you'd like this UI done. No need for anything else other than the source code. It'd be a massive benefit to society to make this widely available.
- raylad 5y agoiOS too?