Hi, I’m trying to use the lidar together with cameras. To speed things up I’d like to use the headless mode, for which I"m following OmniIsaacGym and set the experience as follows: experience = "" if headless: if enable_livestream: experience = "" …

Hi @daniel.honerkamp - someone from our team will review and provide answer to your question.

Thanks a lot. As a small update, I now found that training the agent with experience = f'{os.environ["EXP_PATH"]}/omni.isaac.sim.python.gym.headless.kit' also does not produce the desired result. The simulator does not complain, but the lidar observations look very different than to experience = "".…

Hi @daniel.honerkamp - Apologies for delay in the response. Please try our latest Isaac Sim release and let us know if you are still having any issues.

Hi, I have now switched to isaac sim version 4.1.0 and isaac lab. I’m afraid with this version, it is still not possible to use the lidar, irrespective of whether I set enable_cameras=True or False. from omni.isaac.lab.app import AppLauncher # launch omniverse app app_launcher = AppLauncher() ap…

Lidar fails in omni.isaac.sim.python.gym.headless.render.kit mode

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Lidar fails in omni.isaac.sim.python.gym.headless.render.kit mode

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