{"id":261,"date":"2006-09-30T23:24:22","date_gmt":"2006-09-30T23:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/wblog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2007-02-14T12:52:15","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T11:52:15","slug":"vr-gear-makes-rc-airplane-the-coolest-toy-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/2006\/09\/30\/vr-gear-makes-rc-airplane-the-coolest-toy-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"VR Gear Makes RC Airplane the Coolest Toy Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From VRoot.org :<\/p>\n

“Take a look at this Raw Feed post<\/a>: it talks about a model RC airplane that can be controlled with virtual reality gear. Here’s a video<\/a>. From the post: “A Canadian RC airplane enthusiast shows us some sweet unanticipated convergence between a model RC airplane and virtual reality gear. It works like this: The airplane is a conventional one, controlled by a wireless remote control. On the airplane is a pan-and-tilt camera, controlled also wirelessly. Here’s the cool part. The video is viewable through virtual reality goggles, which have a gyroscope built in to sense the movement of the goggles. When the wearer moves his head, the camera moves. Tragically, this is not a product you can buy, but a DIY project.”<\/p>\n

Of course, I want one :p<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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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).\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\”
\nI really like this input method and think it might be useful for symbolic input in VWs.<\/p>\n

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":[13],"tags":[81,80,214,465],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261"}],"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=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}