So what you do is mount depth cameras onto the Oculus Rift, scanning the projection area of the display, like so:niall wrote:Putting those onto gloves like these:Trilion99 wrote:We recently came up with a demo for this: http://www.lp-research.com/lpms-head-tracking-demo/
The 3D graphics is a bit old-schoolish (+ a few bugs), though. But the main thing is that latency is low and here is no drift (thanks to the magnetometer). Anyway we combined the system with an optical tracker as well: http://www.lp-research.com/simultaneous ... -tracking/
Could make it really cheap, too. So it might be interesting for low cost VR.
http://benkrasnow.blogspot.com.au/2010/ ... s-for.html
and getting relative positioning going between the HMD and the gloves (and relative finger positions, and pressure sensitve finger/palm sensors down the road)...... I'd buy it!
What really excites me about all of this is that we're getting closer to the point where we'll be able to to "see" our hands through the HMD - with relatively accurate position, orientation, fingers etc. Any kind of gun or device in the game could be overlayed on that virtual hand, using your finger sensors for control e.g. index finger trigger movement fires, thumbs up does something else, ... think multi-touch but in 3 dimensions so 1 and 2 hand gestures, say send a Street Figher II fireball with the appropriate wrists together gesture.
Forget keyboards, mice, joypads, guns... we've got to head in the direction that Apple is going and just use what we have - our hands and body. Maybe Kinect will get there one day, but you'd want to be surrounded by sensors in a cave like environment. If we can just put on a pair of gloves, which talk back to the base station/HMD via Bluetooth, then it's just a matter of time for the HMD to go wireless also and we can use these tools in any environment outdoors or indoors, alone or in groups, sitting or standing, blah blah blah
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/42 ... he-future/
and then when your hands are in view we can render a hand, a gun, etc. and trigger actions by hand and finger gestures *pew pew*
Then add positional and orientation tracking gloves for when your hands are not 'visible' in the virtual world. Down the road full sensor gloves could replace the depth cameras, giving you gestures regardless of where your hands are.
Is it just me, or is this not the long-term direction that most people are dreaming of here...?