Is it possible to subscribe to a point cloud and visualize it using the ROS 2 Generic subscriber?

Robotics & Edge Computing Robotics - Isaac Isaac ROS
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I am currently working on visualizing the position and point cloud extracted from a visual SLAM in Isaac Sim in real-time, with a given robot model. The SLAM runs on a separate machine and sends messages via two topics (posestamped | pointcloud2). I know this is a visualization task, but I chose Isaac Sim because I plan to further develop the project later. My question is whether it is possible to achieve this using the ROS 2 Generic subscriber, so that after starting the simulation, I can somehow visualize the elements of the point cloud. Thanks in advance for your help!

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Hi @Jackthe

Welcome to the Isaac ROS forum

Which topic are you discussing? Are you referring to posestamped?
If true you can visualize from rviz2

You can also use foxglove

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Hi Raffaello!

I managed the posestamped part. I want to visualize the PointCloud2 type message in Isaac sim. Not in Rviz not in foxglove (which is pretty good). And in real time. How can i do it? Can i doit with Isaac Debug Draw Point Cloud? And if i can then how to start it?

Thanks in advance!
Jack