Wide angle camera (fisheye)

[chapulina]

Gazebo-classic has a WideAngleCamera sensor which uses custom shaders to created a fisheye effect. It should be ported to Ignition eventually. Most of the implementation will probably live in ign-rendering.

[scpeters]

there are pull requests open to implement this in Garden:

• [ogre1.x] Add support for wide angle camera gz-rendering#490
• Add wide angle camera sensor #171
• Add support for wide angle camera in sensors system gz-sim#1215

[chapulina]

Let's leave this open until we've implemented the camera on Ogre 2.

[Wojcik98]

Hi, are you planning to implement support for wide angle cameras on OGRE 2 in the near future?

In our company we have a use case where we have to use both wide angle cameras and lidars. The issue is that in OGRE 1 lidars work really bad (at least in the gazebo visualization plugin), whereas in OGRE 2 lidars work good, but there is no wide angle camera support.

OGRE 1

OGRE 2

[iche033]

wide angle camera support for ogre2 was added in gazebosim/gz-rendering#733. It's available in Harmonic which is to be released in Sep 2023