Hello all,
I've been a long time lurker and dreamer of VR. Anyway, I'm trying to suppliment some of my tinkerings with the ability to use my cellphone basically as a convoluted WASD - In a sense, strap my phone or ipod to my leg and walk/run in place to make my game character move with me.
I've seen some posts around here in the past of people doing just this, but I cannot seem to find them easily and it is driving me crazy. Any help greatly appreciated, thank you
WASD with cellphone gyrometer/ecelometer or what have you
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- One Eyed Hopeful
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Re: WASD with cellphone gyrometer/ecelometer or what have yo
With a phone you may be able to detect walking motion (basically like a gesture recognition). You can also use accelerations to detect broad direction movement. It will probably never be as accurate as just pressing a key on a keyboard, but it may work good enough for some purposes. Unfortunately, I've never tried this so I can't give you many tips beyond this.
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Re: WASD with cellphone gyrometer/ecelometer or what have yo
Thats what I was thinking, and I know someone pulled it off around here. I just cant find it, and I'm bereft of the ability to script it myself. Bleh.
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Re: WASD with cellphone gyrometer/ecelometer or what have yo
You might want to check out FreePIE. It may help (but you still need some scripting skills).