Introducing the RealSense Tracking Camera T265

[MartyG]

Hi everyone,

A new RealSense camera product called the RealSense Tracking Camera T265 is now listed for pre-prder on Intel's online Click store, with pre-orders due to ship in the week of March 4 2019.

"Intel RealSense Tracking Camera T265 is a new class of stand-alone Simultaneous Localization and Mapping device, for use in robotics, drones and more".

https://click.intel.com/order-intel-realsense-tracking-camera-t265.html

Update 1: Dorodnic the RealSense SDK Manager has posted some additional FAQ information on the RealSense GitHub site.

https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/issues/3129#issuecomment-456834208

Update 2: the official information page for the T265 is available now.

https://realsense.intel.com/tracking-camera/?cid=em-elq-43466&utm_source=elq&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=43466&elq_cid=1206596

Update 3: a guide to getting IMU data from D435i and T265 has been published.

https://realsense.intel.com/how-to-getting-imu-data-from-d435i-and-t265/

Update 4: At the January 2019 Vision Industry and Technology Forum, Roy Karunakaran, the Director of Marketing for RealSense, demonstrated use of the RealSense D435 depth camera and the T265 tracking camera to operate a wheeled robot.

https://www.embedded-vision.com/industry-analysis/video-interviews-demos/intel-demonstration-realsense-cameras-visual-navigation-whe

Update 6: A data sheet document for the T265 is available.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000032422/emerging-technologies/intel-realsense-technology.html

Update 7: Dorodnic the RealSense SDK Manager says "The plan is to publish detailed white-paper and real-life example sometimes following product launch. We are also adding the relevant APIs to librealsense and ROS/realsense in upcoming releases. If you want to start looking at it right now, you should check-out the following API of the underlying device driver".

https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/blob/master/third-party/libtm/libtm/include/TrackingDevice.h#L508-L515

Update 8: Dorodnic provided an outline roadmap for T265 features that the development team are working on.

https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/issues/3129#issuecomment-470176099

Update 9: The RealSense seminar 'Getting Started With V-SLAM For Robotics' now available on YouTube

https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/issues/3527