Development Section

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• Example code
  Example code and integration (C#, ActiveX and Internet Explorer, ...)
• 3D model interface
  3D model/data interface (model manipulation via the API)
• Tracking plugin interface
  Tracking plugin interface
• Function reference/API
  Unifeye SDK function reference/API
• Redistribution
  Redistribution package for the Unifeye SDK

The Unifeye SDK provides a powerful, flexible and extensible framework. All functionality is available via an elaborate ActiveX interface (see the Function reference/API). So you can integrate the functionalities provided by the Unifeye SDK into all programming/development environments that allow the integration of ActiveX/COM components, like:

• C++
• Managed (.Net) languages like: C#, Visual Basic
• HTML/JavaScript/VBScript (using the Internet Explorer)
• etc.

In addition to that you can develop your own tracking plugins for the Unifeye SDK or use the Workflow Engine and Authoring system.

Starting with Unifeye SDK 3.0 a completely new framework was introduced. Its main goal is to allow an easy extensibility and adoption of new tracking systems, new image sources and new rendering engines. The core components are:

• the capture manager which gives access to still images, video files and live cameras (for more details on supported image sources, please refer to the video/image sources section and the video properties section),
• the tracking manager and the related sensor sources/tracking systems (for more details, please refer to the supported tracking systems overview, the general tracking framework configuration section and the tracking systems configuration section,
• a synchronization component for synchronizing tracking data of different tracking systems (please also refer to the synchronization section as well as image sources and
• a visualization system for overlaying the real image with 3D content (see also the general rendering notes and the content preparation guidelines).

The framework follows a push principle: image capturing and tracking deliver their data independently. The synchronization component synchronizes the data accordingly before forwarding it to visualization. Different synchronization modes are available, which control this process (see the sychronization section). Even distribution of tracking data via a local network is possible.
As illustrated below the combination of different tracking systems is possible and can be easily configured via the Tracking XML configuration logic (see the general tracking configuration section and the individual configurations for different tracking systems).

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