Using Ricoh Theta X orientation data in VIO SLAM

[craig]

SLAM with Ricoh Theta using OpenVSLAM

Has anyone seen this? I Have been doing some SLAM research recently and stumbled upon this: https://github.com/xdspacelab/openvslam It is an open source SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) framework that advertises support for equirectangular videos like those recorded (or streamed) from a Theta. It supports monocular camera setups, where you use a single camera and stucture-from-motion to estimate the actual 6 dimensional trajectory of the camera. To be clear, this is a REALLY cool.…

If you need the motion and orientation sensor data in addition to visual data, as far as I know, you need to build a plugin to access the IMU data in real-time.

Gyroscope and Accelerometer sensors in THETA Z1

Hi I would like to create plugin for THETA Z1 and want to use gyroscope and accelerometer sensors. But I am not sure does camera have that sensors and can I use them. Did you have experience to use these sensors for THETA Z1?