Help with IMU and Unity 3D

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ryanas
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Help with IMU and Unity 3D

Post by ryanas »

Hi there,

I am interested in buying an IMU to be used for Unity 3D as a controller. I'm quite interested in having it wireless and I've come across the x-BIMU
http://www.x-io.co.uk/products/x-bimu/

Has anyone used this and would it be easy to port the inputs over to Unity 3D?

Ryan
numu
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Re: Help with IMU and Unity 3D

Post by numu »

i dont know about x-BIMU, but i hooked up my FreeIMU with unity and it works perfectly.

used: FreeIMU -> serialPrint -> Python UDP Send -> Unity UDP Receive
ryanas
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Re: Help with IMU and Unity 3D

Post by ryanas »

Thanks for the reply. In the end I decided to buy the Razor 9DOF IMU and just create a wireless version myself.

[youtube-hd]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS1thBk ... 1394961015[/youtube-hd]

This way is simply Razor IMU -> Unity
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Re: Help with IMU and Unity 3D

Post by numu »

cool ! congratz!

but what protocol are you using ?
ryanas
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Re: Help with IMU and Unity 3D

Post by ryanas »

I simply wrote a script in Unity to read in the serial data from a specified port.
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