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Lemuel Botha
Lemuel Botha

Reputation: 659

Can the built in spatial mapping of the HoloLens be disabled on a per app basis?

I have developed an app which is beyond the scale of spatial mapping and therefore I have not included any spatial mapping into my project, but the HoloLens' built in spatial mapping is causing issues, especially in darkened areas. Is there anyway to disable the onboard mapping? Thanks

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1022

Answers (3)

Lemuel Botha
Lemuel Botha

Reputation: 659

I received this from DavidKlineMS on forums.hololens.com:

The HoloLens is constantly scanning the environment. In examples like you describe (darkened areas), tracking can be impacted. If you are looking to disable the UI that indicates tracking loss, you will need to handle it manually.

The documentation pages on handling tracking loss (Unity and DirectX) may help you here.

Upvotes: 0

Programmer
Programmer

Reputation: 125275

Yes, it can be disabled.

There used to be a function called SetMappingEnabled. I think that Microsoft removed this function after some update. You could simply call SpatialMappingManager.Instance.SetMappingEnabled(false) but not anymore.

SpatialMappingManager.Instance.DrawVisualMeshes = false;

should be able to disable Spatial. I would disable Spatial shadow too. Use the function below to disable Spatial.

void disableSpatialMapping()
{
    SpatialMappingManager.Instance.StopObserver();
    SpatialMappingManager.Instance.CastShadows = false;
    SpatialMappingManager.Instance.DrawVisualMeshes = false;
}

Upvotes: 0

Cameron Vetter
Cameron Vetter

Reputation: 747

That capability is not currently available in any of the exposed API's. I would suggest asking the same question in forums.hololens.com and see if you can get the attention of someone from Microsoft as a requested feature.

Upvotes: 2

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