{"id":666,"date":"2009-06-03T17:42:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T16:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/?p=666"},"modified":"2009-06-05T09:06:09","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T08:06:09","slug":"one-step-closer-to-home-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/03\/one-step-closer-to-home-vr\/","title":{"rendered":"One step closer to home VR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh from E3, and I&#8217;m sure you all have seen it, but still I have to print it here because I&#8217;m happy : we&#8217;re one big step closer to having VR at home \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>The first controller, by Microsoft, uses a sort of Z-cam that can get the depth information of the environment, including the player(s) :<\/p>\n<p>(beware, some of the following seem to be more a &#8220;vision&#8221; than actual games)<\/p>\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fMb0LSsRnWk[\/youtube]\n<p>And the second is a complete 6 Dof tracking device, probably using some 6 Dof inertial devices plus the camera tracking the glowing ball to recalibrate an absolute position !<\/p>\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bgLN7uOj8Jg[\/youtube]\n<p>The only issue with the technique they chose is that when the further the device is from the camera, the less precision you get.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this tracker is enough to support head tracking without getting me sick \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>So the battle is opened, let&#8217;s see who will be the first to have games in an HMD to fulfill <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reghardware.co.uk\/2009\/05\/21\/spielberg_vr\/\">Steven Spielberg&#8217;s prediction that VR the is future of gaming<\/a> ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh from E3, and I&#8217;m sure you all have seen it, but still I have to print it here because I&#8217;m happy : we&#8217;re one big step closer to having VR at home \ud83d\ude09 The first controller, by&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[405,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666"}],"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=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}