Hololens application stopping at splash screen - camera

I'm working on a Unity project for Hololens, that uses the camera to capture pictures, send them to a photo recognition API and displays the result. The project works perfectly fine in unity, but not on the emulator/Hololens.
Unfortunately, I wrote a lot of code at once, so i don't know at what point this problem started. The problem show's up after building the project and running it on the Hololens/emulator in Debug mode. On the Hololens, I see the starting window (the one you see after you open any application). After i place it, i see End showing splash screen. on the Output window in Visual Studio, and it just doesn't go any further (but doesn't freeze either, just does nothing).
I don't know where it's coming from, since no exceptions are thrown, but i suspect the camera is the cause. Earlier, i had to comment this line of code:
transform.position = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(new Vector3((CameraManager.Resolution.width * .5f), (CameraManager.Resolution.height * .5f), 10));
because the function ScreenToWorldPoint was throwing the following exception:
Screen position out of view frustum (screen pos 0.000000, 0.000000, 10.000000) (Camera rect 0 0 0 0)
As you see it says that the Camera rect's size is 0. I even tried directly logging the camera's dimensions to make sure (Debug.Log(Camera.main.pixelWidth + ", " + Camera.main.pixelHeight)), and sure enough, they were (0, 0) on the Hololens/emulator.
I made sure that webcam is supported, and that my camera settings are all set, but that didn't help either.
So i'm not sure if that's the cause of the problem or simply a symptom. And I can't start anywhere since neither the Output nor the Error window show anything wrong. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for reading!
Edit: Here's the entire output log from beginning to end.
Edit2: I don't know if this is significant, but if I paused execution (in Visual Studio), it always seem to be at Build/ProjectName/App.css => Line 78:
[MTAThread]
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var app = new App();
CoreApplication.Run(app); //<===== Here
}

You might want to check any of your Start() methods. You might have some code that is CPU intensive. Even if it runs smoothly in Unity, doesn't mean it will run easily on HoloLens since their CPU is not powerful.
Also, to avoid any Camera problems, make sur to use the Camera prefab from this
repository :
https://github.com/Microsoft/MixedRealityToolkit-Unity
Those are just some thoughts, hope it helps!

Turns out i didn't enable "Virtual Reality Supported" under Other settings in PlayerSettings. It's really dumb, but i hope this helps someone.

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Scene rendering goes dark after calling LoadScene/LoadLevel [duplicate]

I completed Unity's roll-a-ball tutorial and it works fine. I changed a couple of materials to make it look better. I also added a C# script that should restart the level when the player falls off of the ground (I disables the walls). I am using Unity 5.5.
It initially looks like this:
But when I go off the edge and the level restarts, it looks like this:
It sometimes looks like this for a few seconds after opening unity when the editor is loading.
Here is the script:
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class DeathTrigger : MonoBehaviour {
// Use this for initialization
void Start () {
}
// Update is called once per frame
void Update () {
}
void OnTriggerEnter (Collider other)
{
if (other.gameObject.CompareTag("Player"))
Application.LoadLevel(Application.loadedLevel);
}
}
Any ideas on what's causing this?
The colors and materials are loaded. This is a lighting problem because lighliting is still calculating in the background. This will likely occur in the Editor only. This should not happen in the build.
Depending on your Unity version, you can fix this by going to Windows --> Lighting --> Settings then go to the Scene tab. Scroll down and disable Auto Generate checkbox then click the Generate Lightning button.
For older version of Unity with no Auto Generate checkbox, see here.
After play with Lighting tools, only one thing should be change on Lighting Setting for every scene.
Window > Rendering > Lighting (Unity 2020)
Click at Environment Tab
At Environment Lighting, change Source from Skybox to Color.
Select white color from Ambient Color.
Done. Try test it.
Before
After
I found many solutions online but I was missing out a step, so I hope this helps.
Most solutions indicated to go to Windows->Lightning, then untick Auto and Click Generate Lighting. My problem was that while I was pressing the generate button I did not have all of my scenes loaded for preview (at least not the scene I had problems with), so it was only applying light generation to the loaded scenes. Make sure all scenes are loaded when generating the lights.
Try Clearing Baked Data if you are using unity version around 5.5
Go to Windows->Lightning->Untick Auto->Now Click dropdown arrow of Build Button which is near Auto(Check Box) -> Select Clear Baked Data.
Now try Your code which looks fine although SceneManager.LoadScene (1); is enough.
Also unloading the previous scene and setting new scene as active scene is a good practice.
This worked for me.
File > Build settings > player Settings > (on the left) Graphics > (Top-Right) gear icon > Reset
I'm a newbie and none of the advice on web helped me. However when I went to Window > Rendering > Lightning > scene tab; If "lightning setting" says “none”, click on it and choose “demo”- setting. Press “generate”.
So it seems like it was missing settings all together which made the scene go dark when loaded.
I encountered the exact same problem. What worked for me was to set Directional Light > Light > Mode to Realtime. (it was Baked, for some reason)
I hope this can help someone in the future.

UI Automation Error: UI TESTING FAILURE-APP failed to quiesce within 30.0s

Since xCode updated i'm having trouble running any ui test case. It gives me this error when its expected to do a simple tapping action for example:
XCUIApplication *app = [[XCUIApplication alloc] init];
XCUIElement *passwordSecureTextField = app.secureTextFields[#"Password"];
[passwordSecureTextField tap];
Anyone have any ideas why am i getting this error? I've searched on google and here but haven't found any solutions.
Thank you.
Make sure you don't have any animations on screen during UI Automation tests. We had a text alert flashing on the login screen for debug/test builds of our app, and it would cause the "failed to quiesce" error until it was removed.
There are some other posts about this error that mention issues with UIRefreshControl, so I would suspect animating that or UIActivityIndicatorView would cause the same problem.
It might help to turn on the "All Exceptions" breakpoint. I used it and I recall getting the same error. It will break at the line with the problematic code and should show you the stack trace of the error with more info.
I had a similar error - as well as the simulator running very slowly. In my case it was fixed very simply by the method given in the accepted answer here: Xcode simulator extremely slow.
To save you a click: The issue was that I had accidentally pressed Cmd + T at some point, enabling "Slow animations".
I had to turn off the "Personal Hotspot" in order to get a working test environment (Because the blue bar in the top apparently disturbed XCTestRunner)
But as some tests need internet connection I can't do testing when being in the wild:-(
Anthony F's answer says it all. Likely something is still animating. The system seems to wait for the app UI to "settle" (go idle) and when that happens, it performs the tap action. However, when the UI constantly runs animations, it will never settle.
Xcode Console Output
Enable the console output in Xcode to see what happens when running the test.
Below is an example of the log, when it works well. The system waits for the app to go idle and when that has happened, it goes to find the button in the hierarchy.
t = 16.95s Tap "#go" Button
t = 16.95s Wait for app to idle
t = 17.00s Find the "#go" Button
t = 17.00s Snapshot accessibility hierarchy for XXX
t = 17.09s Find: Descendants matching type Button
t = 17.09s Find: Elements matching predicate '"#go" IN identifiers'
t = 17.10s Wait for app to idle
t = 17.15s Synthesize event
t = 17.41s Wait for app to idle
Below is an example when it fails. The system waits for the app to settle so that it can look for the button in the hierarchy. Since, it does not settle, it waits "forever" finally running into the timeout.
t = 18.88s Set device orientation to Unknown
t = 18.93s Tap "#go" Button
t = 18.93s Wait for app to idle
t = 79.00s Assertion Failure: UI Testing Failure - App failed to quiesce within 60s
In my case the "failed to quiesce" was caused, because at time t=18.90s, demo data was generated which caused repeated updates of a UIProgressView. From then on the app UI never settled ("quiesced").
("quiesce" as a word is not in my active vocabulary, which certainly has delayed my recognition of what was going on. The console output pushed me into the right direction. I'd bet "idle" rings more bells than "quiesce" for many developers.)

Ti.Geolocation callbacks only works when running KitchenSink

I have a problem with Ti.Geolocation that drives me crazy. Only using IOS platform so far. The goal is to get GPS callbacks with highest possible accuracy when I move around with the phone.
The problem is that I have copied most of the code from geolocation.js in KitchenSink, with the relevant part shown below. It looks OK to me, however the behaviour I get is very strange.
I just don't get regular GPS callbacks when I walk around! The compass works fine however and sends me callbacks all the time. I have also tried without subscribing to 'heading' events, but no change in GPS behaviour.
There is only one event that can trigger a GPS-callback with correct data, and that is running KitchenSink! Switching to KitchenSink and back also gives me a callback with accuracy between 5 and 10. If I don't do that, my accuracy can be as high as 1500-2500 (if I get a callback at all, that is).
KitchenSink seems to work fine, but I fail to see what that app does that I do not?!?
I have turned off Wifi in the phone so it wont disturb. This problem is very frustrating and I have spent three days on it now, can someone please help? I have tried compiling against different SDK's too (normally 2.1.1GA but also down to 1.8.2). No change.
if (locationServicesAvailable()) {
// APPLICATION LOGIC
ui.init();
Ti.Geolocation.purpose = "Get Lat/Long of your current position";
Ti.Geolocation.accuracy = Ti.Geolocation.ACCURACY_BEST;
Ti.Geolocation.distanceFilter = 10;
Ti.Geolocation.frequency = 0; /* as fast as possible */
Ti.Geolocation.preferredProvider = Ti.Geolocation.PROVIDER_GPS;
if (Ti.Geolocation.hasCompass) {
// TURN OFF ANNOYING COMPASS INTERFERENCE MESSAGE
Ti.Geolocation.showCalibration = false;
// SET THE HEADING FILTER (THIS IS IN DEGREES OF ANGLE CHANGE)
// EVENT WON'T FIRE UNLESS ANGLE CHANGE EXCEEDS THIS VALUE
Ti.Geolocation.headingFilter = 45;
/*
Ti.Geolocation.getCurrentHeading(handleCompass);
Ti.Geolocation.addEventListener('heading', handleCompass);
*/
}
Ti.Geolocation.getCurrentPosition(handlePosition);
Ti.Geolocation.addEventListener('location', handlePosition);
ui.refresh.addEventListener('click', function(e) {
Ti.Geolocation.getCurrentPosition(handlePosition);
});
}
OK it seems I have found an answer to my problem. It's as simple as setting accuracy to Ti.Geolocation.ACCURACY_NEAREST_TEN_METERS. I'm using the IOS platform, and I'm located in Sweden (in the countryside) if it matters. Don't know if this solution applies to everyone, but I have seen references to this problem (http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/130596/strange-behavior-of-the-gps) and solution so I know it exists.
No idea why ACCURACY_BEST doesnt work, but it doesnt for me. I'll test all the other settings too when I get the time but now at least I can continue developing.

GLKBaseEffect prepareToDraw GL ERROR: 0x0501

So ive been doing some iphone development with some OpenglES in it, but i am getting a rather weird error when i call prepareToDraw on my effect. My program in short simulates dice rolling (trying to learn objective-c and opengl). The program works fine for the most part, i can use everything ive programmed my app to do (with its bugs in the physics but ill fix that later). The problem comes in after ive used the part that contains the OpenGL.
The program contains 2 menu's you have to go through in order to reach the screen that is using OpenGL, once you have used the apps OpenGL part and go back to the previous menu, then try go back to the OpenGL part again, i get a print out saying GL ERROR: 0x0501. ive narrowed it down to be caused by the prepareToDraw method from my effect. The other weird part about it, is if i go back, then forward again, the OpenGL works again, and can be repeated again and again for it to be working and breaking every second time you go into the OpenGL part.
I've been searching around for similar problems to mine, but each time its got something to do with loading textures that are not a power-of-two texture, which doesnt help me because im not even using textures yet, just colored vertices.
ive pastebin'd my two code files where the problem should lie
Dice.m: http://pastebin.com/ze1DEEzs
in the draw method you'll see my printouts have narrowed down where the problem lies, which is the prepareToDraw method. (line 308)
RollViewController.m: http://pastebin.com/VycwAh3R
this file is where i setup the effect and the context etc, so i must be doing something wrong in here to cause the prepareToDraw method to mess up every 2nd time i run the OpenGL part of the program. i have a feeling it has something to do with not letting go some kind of resource to do with the context and the effect, but i cant find anything about deleting context and effect (probably because you dont need to but im not sure).
I hope there is someone out there that has run into the same problem and can answer my question and i hope its not just a silly mistake because ive been trying to solve this for a while now :)
thanks
After much pain and suffering i finally found a fix to the problem. Im not exactly sure why this is a problem, but creating the context within the OpenGL part (aka RollViewController.m) is not the way to do it. Instead you should create it once throughout the lifetime of your program and just set your current context for your glkview to be the context you have made. Maybe someone can enlighten me why recreating the context is a bad idea.
In my code i have a profile object that gets passed around between views and menu's so that they can all communicate with the same data, so i just defined a public context within my profile object so that everything can get access to the context instead of creating their own (and breaking).
The error seems general and might be because of different issues. I avoided it(for now) by not using mipmaps. I commented the following code I had and don't have the error anymore.
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER,GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_NEAREST);
glGenerateMipmap(GL_TEXTURE_2D)

How to know a video source (webcam) is available or not without creating capture window?

It is quite tricky because I wanna to take the result as a sign for later process. If a window flashes, it would be weird to user.
(This is not an answer, just refreshing the question and adding some details:)
Suppose you need to open a video capture driver (webcam) with code like this (delphi, but easy understandable):
result:= SendMessage(hCapWnd, WM_CAP_DRIVER_CONNECT, FDriverNo, 0);
It works fine, except when camera/webcam is busy (opened by another application, for example moviemaker). Then the capture driver suddenly shows a "select video source" window that blocks your application (but not moviemaker, which keeps recording). SendMessage function becomes modal and will not return until undesired window is closed.
Is there a way to detect if a capture driver is busy with another application before connecting to it?
Thanks
This function return number of available webcams and scanners on your mashine(с++).
int GetNumCam()
{
int MemberIndex = 0;
HDEVINFO dev;
SP_DEVINFO_DATA DeviceInfoData;
DeviceInfoData.cbSize = sizeof(DeviceInfoData);
dev = SetupDiGetClassDevsA(&GUID_DEVINTERFACE_IMAGE, NULL,NULL,DIGCF_PRESENT);
if (dev == NULL)
{
MessageBoxA(0,"it is null..","vse propalo",0);
return -1;
}
else
{
while(SetupDiEnumDeviceInfo(dev,MemberIndex, &DeviceInfoData))
{
MemberIndex++;
}
}
return MemberIndex;
}
I wonder if sending a broadcast message could do. I mean, suppose you send a VFW info request message to all windows in system. Then, all windows actually doing VFW processing will answer their status info and you will know which of them are doing video processing; some kind of shouting "anybody here...?"
But it looks like brute force, or even hacking. May be I'll test it... may be not. I am sure there must be a smarter way to know if a video capture driver is busy with another application.
(btw... anybody here?)
I was afraid it would happen.
First I enumerated all opened windows in system, then executed this instruction for each HWND, which just asks for driver information (pascal syntax):
SendMessage(h, WM_CAP_DRIVER_GET_NAME, length(driver)*sizeof(char), LPARAM(PChar(driver))
According to Msdn help, WM_CAP_DRIVER_GET_NAME results are:
"Returns TRUE if successful or FALSE if the capture window is not connected to a capture driver"
(Bold is mine). So it appears a good way to know:
1-If the window is capturing. So it is applyable to ALL windows, don't matter if they are capturing or not.
2-And if so, it tells you which driver is using.
However, after first test round, the results were:
- Task Manager (it was running) crashed and closed
- Explorer crashed and closed (reopened again automatically)
- Belkin Wireless monitor (my pc's WiFi driver) crashed and closed
- Eset Nod32 antivirus crashed, did not closed
The first conclussion can be that this is a bad way to locate which applications are capturing video in a system. But I must ensure to dismiss the possibility of a bug.
I'll keep reporting.
This is not a good solution my any means but I found out that if you disable and enable the camera in device manager immediately before sending the WM_CAP_DRIVER_CONNECT message then for some reason the video source window does not appear and the function returns and works OK.
So for a script I was working on I had to download devcon.exe and I put "devcon disable *PID_3450*MI_00*" and "devcon enable *PID_3450*MI_00*" immediately before my WM_CAP_DRIVER_CONNECT and it seems to work consistently. Unfortunately you need to run as administrator to be able to disable/enable devices. Again not a proper fix by any means...
(Hardware ID of my cam is USB\VID_0AC8&PID_3450&MI_00)