Introducing Experimental MCAP Support
Introducing experimental MCAP support in Rerun introducing-experimental-mcap-support-in-rerun
In the most recent release , we're adding experimental MCAP support to Rerun to make it easier to visualize your existing robot data without changing your current workflows or data formats. This is still an early feature, but we're eager to share this development with the community. We believe it should be easy to visualize robotics data, no matter the format.
Let's get into what we've built and why we think it's important. Firstly, MCAP is an open-source format for storing (generally robotics) log data.
From mcap.dev :
MCAP is an open-source container file format for multimodal log data. It supports multiple channels of timestamped pre-serialized data, and is ideal for use in pub/sub or robotics applications.
Motivations motivations
MCAP has been the default bag format in ROS2 since May 2023, and over the past year, we've seen more interest from the community in the ability to visualize MCAP data with Rerun.
At Rerun, we believe strongly that open-source visualization for robotics data is crucial for the future of robotics research and development. We're excited to start this journey with MCAP support, and we're committed to making it as robust and user-friendly as possible. We welcome feedback from the community to help us improve our support.
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