Tag: tracking
One LED 3D tracking with two wiimotes
Using two wiimotes and a simple calibration step, Simon Hay and his team of the Cambridge University are able to track a single LED using stereovision algorithms : [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT6aQN-lwmo[/youtube] Ok now please somebody write an opensource software to…
Read More »DIY 3D Controller
Kyle McDonald shows at Instructables.com how to make your own cheap 3d desktop tracker. Here’s a small video (non embeddable in my wordpress..) You need : One Arduino board (3) 270k resistors (3) 10k resistors Solder Wire Aluminum…
Read More »IEEE VR 2008, AR/MR
From Monday 10th to Wednesday 12th March 2008 was the actual IEEE VR conference. See the complete program. It was harder to take notes because there was no power plug in this room, and Wi-fi was having a…
Read More »Wiirtual Reality
Johnny Lee is definitely a genius.. After the Finger Tracking and the Wiimote whiteboard, here’s how with two Wiimotes he’s creating VR games at home !! (not that we didn’t think about it, but hey.. he actually *did*…
Read More »Markerless realtime 3D tracking & modeling
A french lab, who published a paper at Siggraph 2007, is working on a impressive markerless tracking/modeling system, the GrImage Platform: This architecture is designed for mixed reality applications requiring such dynamic models, tele-immersion for instance. (…) The…
Read More »Intersense IS-1200 VisTracker
Back at IPT/EGVE, Intersense was presenting its MictroTrax and new Wand. The head tracker is really small, and the wand is smaller. It can fit on cheap, lightweight passive stereo glasses without any problem. I did the setup…
Read More »InterSense MictroTrax announced : a new Wand !
Intersense is announcing a new tracking device for its IS-900 inertial/ultrasonic tracking system : the MictroTrax. It’s small, it’s slick, and it has a new Wand 😉 The new Head Tracker is over 40% smaller than the previous…
Read More »Virtools VRPack in action
Here are two videos demonstrating interesting (read “fun”) uses of VR. Lightsaber and 3d modelling! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GBf9r7aINY[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRYDv-kGscM[/youtube] Related article : VR FPS : Atrium Experience
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