This project demonstrates a way to use cameras that are not recognized or supported by Vuforia (UWP only). This is made possible by the External Camera feature from Vuforia and the lower-level MediaCapture APIs.

The code is based on Vuforia SDK 8.3.8.

• at least Vuforia SDK 8.3.8
• at least Windows 10 SDK 14393
• Visual Studio 2019 with workload for UWP development with C++

1. Download the Vuforia SDK for UWP here
2. Add an environment variable VUFORIA_SDK that points to the \build\ directoy inside the extracted SDK files, e.g. C:\SDK\vuforia-sdk-uwp-8-3-8\build\
3. Open VuforiaUwpDriver.sln in Visual Studio, make sure to select Release and the correct platform (x86, x64 or ARM64) then start building (CTRL+SHIFT+B) or run build.cmd in the Developer Command Prompt for VS2019.

You can configure the library through the DriverUserData struct. The only thing you can do for now is choosing a specific camera.

In C++

// declare it
DriverUserData userData;

// and use it like this to set your camera
userData.cameraName = "Microsoft LifeCam Rear";
Vuforia::setDriverLibrary("VuforiaUwpDriver.dll", &userData);

Take a look at the VuforiaSetup.cs script for usage with Unity and C#.

The sample folder contains a project for Unity 2018.4 that shows how to setup the driver library.

Steps to run this sample:

1. Make sure you have the correct version of the Vuforia SDK for Unity installed. You can check the version by selecting the VuforiaConfiguration.asset in the project explorer. One of the first things you will see in the inspector is the version and a link to the newest SDK if you have an older one installed.
2. Copy the DLLs you built to the respective plugin folders, e.g. the VuforiaUwpDriver.dll for x86 has to be copied to Plugins/WSA/x86.
3. Build the project (CTRL+B)
4. Build the generated solution using Visual Studio. You might have to manually retarget the solution to successfully build all projects.