3rd Party Visualizers

Platform for Situated Intelligence Studio (PsiStudio in short) supports loading custom visualizers from external DLLs.

Settings Window

To enable PsiStudio to load external DLLs, click the "Edit Settings" button at the top (or select it from the File menu). Then expand the drop-down collection field for "Additional Assemblies". Here you can specify the assemblies containing visualizers that you would like PsiStudio to load, e.g., C:\FullPath\Microsoft.Psi.Spatial.Euclidean.Visualization.Windows.dll

When you've entered all the additional DLLs you wish to load, click the "Save" button, then close and re-open PsiStudio. The new visualizers will be loaded and available the next time PsiStudio starts.

Editing PsiStudioSettings.xml Directly

An alternative path for loading external DLLs is to add an <AdditionalAssemblies> XML tag inside the main <PsiStudioSettings> tag in the PsiStudioSettings.xml file. This settings file is stored in the PsiStudio\Settings\<MachineName> folder under your user Documents folder. You can specify the assemblies containing visualizers that you would like PsiStudio to load with an <AdditionalAssemblies> tag, and an <Assembly> tag per assembly. For example:

    <AdditionalAssemblies>
      <Assembly>C:\MyVisualizers\MyVisualizers.dll</Assembly>
      <Assembly>C:\MyOtherVisualizers\MyOtherVisualizers.dll</Assembly>
    </AdditionalAssemblies>

List of Available Visualizer Assemblies

Some of the visualizers that the \psi framework provides are implemented in projects/DLLs outside of PsiStudio. If desired, these visualizers can be loaded by PsiStudio via the mechanism described above. Here is a list of current projects / DLLs from \psi that contain visualizers:

Project	Visualizers
Microsoft.Psi.AzureKinect.Visualization.Windows.x64	Visualizers for AzureKinect tracked bodies.
Microsoft.Psi.Kinect.Visualization.Windows	Visualizers for Kinect tracked bodies.
Microsoft.Psi.LiveCharts.Visualization.Windows	Visualizers utilizing the LiveCharts library.
Microsoft.Psi.Spatial.Euclidean.Visualization.Windows	Visualizers for various spatial euclidean objects.
Microsoft.Psi.MixedReality.Visualization.Windows	Visualizers for mixed reality types, including hands.