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NsdkScanningSession

A session for 3D scanning and visualization functionality....

Declaration

final class NsdkScanningSession

Summary

A session for 3D scanning and visualization functionality. The scanning feature provides capabilities for capturing, processing, and exporting 3D scan data from AR sessions. Scans of a location can be processed by the Visual Positioning System's (VPS's) cloud services to enable VPS localization.


Methods

NameTypeSummary
computeVoxelsvoid
Compute the voxelization of the scanned scene.
Processing is asynchronous. Call this function and then call getVoxelBuffer()
to retrieve voxel data.
- Precondition: Voxel visualization must have been enabled in the configuration.
configurevoid
Configures the session with the specified settings.
- Attention: This method must be called while the session is stopped,
or else configuration will fail. In that case, while this function returns without
throwing, configuration will still fail asynchronously. Use featureStatus()
to check that configuration has not failed.
- Parameter config: An object that defines this session's behavior.
Only settings that differ from the defaults will be applied.
- Throws: NsdkError.invalidArgument if the configuration is invalid.
Check NSDK's C logs for more information.
exportArchiveString?
Exports the scan data as an archive file.
This method processes the saved scan data and exports it to a standard archive format
that can be used with external 3D processing tools or Niantic's VPS map.
- Note: This function is blocking and may take a while to execute. See
NsdkRecordingExporter for a non-blocking alternative.
- Precondition: Argument metadata must be a valid JSON object string.
- Parameter metadata: Metadata dictionary to include with the export. Can be left empty.
- Parameter exportAsVideo: If true, the RGB frames in the scan will be exported as an
.mp4 video. If false, they will be individual image files.
- Returns: The path of the archive file, if the export was successful, nil if otherwise.
Export failure indicates something was wrong with the saved scan.
- Throws:
- NsdkError.invalidOperation if the scanning session did not have a saved scan to export.
exportSplitArchive[String]?
Exports the scan data as multiple archive files.
This method processes the saved scan data and exports it to multiple archive files
based on the maxFramesPerArchive parameter. Each archive will contain at most
maxFramesPerArchive frames.
- Note: This function is blocking and may take a while to execute.
- Precondition: Argument metadata must be a valid JSON object string.
- Parameter metadata: Metadata dictionary to include with the export. Can be left empty.
- Parameter maxFramesPerArchive: Maximum number of frames per archive file.
- Parameter exportAsVideo: If true, the RGB frames in the scan will be exported as an
.mp4 video. If false, they will be individual image files.
- Returns: An array of paths to the archive files, if the export was successful, nil if otherwise.
Export failure indicates something was wrong with the saved scan.
- Throws:
- NsdkError.invalidOperation if the scanning session did not have a saved scan to export.
featureStatusNsdkFeatureStatus
Reports errors that have occurred within processes running inside this feature.
Check this periodically to see if any errors have occurred with processes running
inside this feature. Once an error has been flagged, it will remain flagged until the
culprit process has been run again and completed successfully.
- Returns: Feature status flags for any issues that have occurred
raycastBufferRaycastBuffer?
Get the most recently computed raycast buffers.
Once the session has been started and all the requested data has been sent through the
NsdkSession, a buffer should become available after a brief computation period.
- Precondition: Raycast visualization must have been enabled in the configuration.
- Returns: The most recently computed raycast buffers if available, nil if not.
recordingInfoNsdkScanningSession.RecordingInfo
Returns information about the current recording.
Call this method before saveCurrentScan() to ensure that the recording
contains frames to save. Otherwise, the save operation may fail.
- Returns: A RecordingInfo object containing details about the current recording.
- Throws: An error if the underlying NSDK call fails.
- Note: Make sure to call this method before saveCurrentScan() if you plan to
save the current scan; otherwise, the save may fail.
saveCurrentScanNsdkScanningSession.SaveInfo
Stops recording and asynchronously saves the recording to the configured path.
Calling this function will stop the active recording, but stop must still be called
afterward to completely shut down this session.
- Parameters:
- timeout: The maximum duration in seconds to wait for the save operation
(default is 10 seconds).
- pollingInterval: The interval in seconds to wait between progress checks
(default is 0.1 seconds)
- Returns: Information about the saved scan, including it's id and file location.
- Throws:
- CancellationError if the Task running this function was cancelled.
- TimeoutError if the function timed out before it could complete execution.
- NsdkScanningSession.SaveError if there was an error specific to the
save operation.
- SeeAlso:
- stop
- configure(with:)
startvoid
Starts scanning.
"Scanning" here may include up to three processes — recording input AR data, raycasting,
and voxelization — depending on how the feature is configured.
Raycasting and voxelization are useful for visualizing scanned areas and
providing feedback to the user about their scan.
- SeeAlso: stop()
- SeeAlso: configure(_:)
stopvoid
Stops scanning and discards any unsaved scan data.
Halts any active scanning while keeping the scanner instance alive.
You can restart scanning later by calling start().
- SeeAlso: start()
voxelBufferVoxelBuffer?
Get the most recently computed voxel data.
Once the session has been started and all the requested data has been sent through the
NsdkSession, a new buffer should become available after a brief computation period after
computeVoxels() has been called.
- Precondition: Voxel visualization must have been enabled in the configuration.
- Returns: The most recently computed voxel data if available, nil if not.

Nested Types

Structs

NameTypeSummary
ConfigurationConfiguration
Configuration structure for the scanning session.
RecordingInfoRecordingInfo
Information about the recording generated during scanning.
SaveInfoSaveInfo
Information about a save operation for a scan.

Enums

NameTypeSummary
SaveErrorSaveError
Errors that can occur during a save operation.

Relationships

conforms to: NsdkFeatureSession