Augmented reality (Overloading stellarium image over camera image)

[mgrouch]

Augmented reality (Overloading stellarium image over camera image)

Is this already supported?

Assuming camera is oriented exactly as stellarium, mixing both images would be useful.

Thanks

[alex-w]

Do you really want to see AR mode in desktop edition of Stellarium?

[gzotti]

See the Oculus plugin. If somebody has such device and is able to program, just extend/adapt it!

[github-actions]

Hello @mgrouch!

Thank you for this suggestion.

[mgrouch]

Do you really want to see AR mode in desktop edition of Stellarium?

Yes. I run it on Raspberry Pi4 Bullseye on a boat.

[gzotti]

Ah yes, #1913!

Is the RPi4 really strong enough as AR platform? I run Stellarium around 6fps, good for a low-power device, but not quite good for AR.

On the Windows platform, you could probably develop something around Spout/RemoteControl (like Unity AR with headset). This may however be uncomfortable by the 2-3 frames lag between foreground Unity world and the spout-ed sky background.

[mgrouch]

@gzotti

With 64-bit bullseye I get 27 fps rate in Stellarium on pi4

[gzotti]

Uh, great! What optimisations (disabled/removed plugins, no translation, ...), and what screen resolution? Is that Raspberry OS or anything else? (Currently on Ubuntu Mate. Probably I messed up the GPU config. Else a good platform.)

[mgrouch]

Uh, great! What optimisations (disabled/removed plugins, no translation, ...), and what screen resolution? Is that Raspberry OS or anything else? (Currently on Ubuntu Mate. Probably I messed up the GPU config. Else a good platform.)

It's preinstalled and pre-configured in this OS: https://bareboat-necessities.github.io/my-bareboat/bareboat-os.html
If you have pi4 you can just download that image burn on SD card and boot it. GPU is pre-configured too.

[gzotti]

Thanks for the link. Not today, but I may try it later this year.