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@@ -26,6 +26,22 @@ Please see the issues for what help needs to be done now! HackADay article and video with Dr. Yates on how they made the Vive a thing. http://hackaday.com/2016/12/21/alan-yates-why-valves-lighthouse-cant-work/ + +## Nomenclature + +* WRT = With Respect To +* PoV / POV = Point of View (typically WRT to a LH, sometimes (though rarely) a sensor) +* LH = Lighthouse = Base Station = A device that produces a 1.8 MHz modulated sync pulse in IR and then sweeps the scene with laser planes. +* Sync Pulse = A pulse of modulated IR data sent from a ligthhouse, typically by the floodlight aspect of a lighthouse. +* Sweep Pulse = The evenlope created by a laser sweeping over a light sensor. +* OOTX = Omnidirectional Optical Transmitter = Data encoded in the sync pulses of the LHs. +* HMD = Headset = Main sensor receiver with a visual display for a human. +* WM = Watchman = Controller = The HTC Vive controller. +* TR = Tracker = Official HTC Tracker. +* LightcapElement = A single pulse of light, including a timestamp, source sensor and length of pulse. +* Disambiguator = System that accepts lightcap elements and pulls out OOTX data and relative sweep times of sweep pulses. +* Poser = Device to convert series of angles from a LH's PoV + ## Getting things working There are two things you should consider doing to your system before running libsurvive. |