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I finally was able to open my GameTrak box =)<\/p>\n[Note: if you buy a PS2 Gametrak, you’ll have to physically modify it to work on PC<\/a>.]\n Easy Setup<\/strong><\/p>\n The setup is really simple : And you’re ready to go. But where to go? I bought the system alone, with no game.<\/p>\n Suddenly I had a doubt. Will I be able to use the gloves without a SDK?<\/p>\n Getting the datas<\/strong><\/p>\n I went into the Control Panel > Game Controllers, and was happy to see a GameTrak entry.<\/p>\n At first the output seemed strange, and I was afraid some computing would be needing But it all made sense quite fast : Wow, I’m so clever. lol. Edit: I’m not that clever after all, see Gilles Pinault’s comment below :p <\/a><\/p>\n So in Virtools I simply dropped a Joystick Waiter, and set the Position as the position of a 3D Frame, Of course, the axis were wrong; GameTrak uses X,Y as the base plane, and Z as the height (as any reasonable 3D software should do \ud83d\ude09 and Virtools uses a screen based (irk), left handed (irk!!!) coordinate system.<\/p>\n So after a small vector component shuffle, my two virtual hands began to move!<\/p>\n The latency is really low I’m really happy about that. Physical Design<\/strong><\/p>\n The gloves seem to have been designed with children in mind. All in all nothing really annoying, and it will easily for forgotten in the midst of action =)<\/p>\n Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n So my first impression is really good! For the moment it’s up to my expectations: cheap, easy setup, easy to use, low lattency. ps: I’ll be off a a couple of weeks, first to give a VRPack training in Belfast, then for a week of parachute\/freefall at Bouloc<\/a>. Be nice to each others \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" QuickWrite<\/a> is an input method created by Ken Perlin<\/a> so that \\\\\\\\\\\\\\”you shouldn\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t ever need to pick up the pen (ie: no clicking, only gliding).\\\\\\\\\\\\\\” So today I played in Virtools with the idea of using Natural Point\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s TrackIR<\/a> as an input device. Of course any 3DOF (it needs only 2DOF) tracker would fit (the Wii-mote for example). <\/p>\n Here\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s a video<\/a> (slightly higher quality<\/a> (6.4mb) ) of my experiment. I\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’m quite a beginner at this input method but it\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s really easy to learn and write fast. <\/p>\n The 3rd dimension could be used to switch the output characters (uppercase, numerical, punctuation etc). <\/p>\n Read on for more infos about QuickWrite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,13],"tags":[68,472,44,211,465,216],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– Plug the foot mat to the base,
\n– Plug the USB cord to your computer,
\n– Put and plug the gloves<\/p>\n![\"GAMETRAK](\"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/data\/2006\/09\/GAMETRAK-HARDWARE-R-W-GOLF.jpg\" "\\"GAMETRAK")
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\n(like if they gave orientation of the base plug and lenght of the cable).<\/p>\n
\nthe position returned by the controller was indeed the x,y,z datas of the first glove,
\nand the x,y,z rotation is in fact the position of the second glove.<\/p>\n
\nand the Rotation as the position of another 3d Frame.<\/p>\n
\nI’ll have to test the accuracy, but I really don’t have time right now.<\/p>\n
\nIt is stretchable so no problem to fit it to my hand. I’ll have to test it on friends with Canadian hands :p
\nAfter 10 mins of use, it starts to be a bit tight and I could feel the blood flowing more slowly,
\nespecially in my little finger, where there’s a special strap.
\nThere is also a small stich rubbing the thumbs.<\/p>\n
\nIt will be more than enough for my needs right now. I’ll let you know when I have a bit more experience with it.<\/p>\n![\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"](\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"http:\/\/mrl.nyu.edu\/~perlin\/experiments\/quikwriting\/ql.gif\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\")
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\nI really like this input method and think it might be useful for symbolic input in VWs.<\/p>\n