Live video overlay with CAD data

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I'm very new to VRed in fact I haven't downloaded the software yet until I know its capabilities.

Is it possible to overlay CAD data (Sketch) onto a live feed video.

The idea behind this is to have a person wear a headset and align a part in an assembly in the real world but using an alignment sketch thats overlayed onto the live image in the headset. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Phill

[chr33z]

If I understand you correctly you want something as a live video background in VRED. This is possible, but there are a few limitations.

Actually there are severayl solutions but none work out of the box. It is not simply possible to render a video to a backplate (which is an acutal background component in VRED).

The simplest solution would be to add a vrVideoGrab component to the scene that can show live video from cameras or virtual webcams. This vrVideoGrab components has to be places between the camera and the object to act as a background. In order to get the same experience as a backplate you would keep the vrVideoGrab component parallel to your camera and scale it to the exact dimensions of your renderwindow. This can be done by using some trigonometry.

If your video source is not recognized as a video source in VRED, try to use a webcam tool like SplitCam or ManyCam to simulate a virtual video source. From my research only video sources installed with a driver are recognized by VRED.

Cheers!