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SlicerAR Development

Key Investigators

Adam Rankin (Robarts Research Institute)
Ken Martin (Kitware, Inc.)

Project Description

Objective

Enable video passthrough augmented reality via stereo camera capture

Approach and Plan

Capture images from stereo camera via Plus
Send images to Slicer via OpenIGTLink
Display images as left and right eye renderer backgrounds in SlicerVR

Progress and Next Steps

Stereo camera operational
SlicerVR operational
Background display operational
- Initial work completed by Isabella Morgan (UWaterloo & NDI) github.com
- VTK pull request submitted for base class vtkRenderWindow
- Work on vtkOpenVRRenderWindow for on-GPU texture passing on-going

Background and References

Stereo camera resources