Control VR - Motion Capture for VR, Animation & More

[zoost]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/co ... trol-vr-mo

Wow, this is really impressive. You should take a look at this. This seems the way forward for input controls

[cybereality]

Yes, looks awesome. I backed it for $600.

However, the correct URL is as follows:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/co ... on-and-mor

[RikuDesu]

The video shows noticeable latency in the tracking :/ I wonder if they'll attempt to fix that. Or is that because they used multiple computers in the multiplayer demo they had.

[TomFahey]

Does anyone know how this compares to:

http://theglovesproject.com

?

The gloves themselves looks very similar, although I suppose there's only so much difference you'd expect to have anyway in an IMU based hand tracking system. I know these Control VR ones are meant to use sensors that were developed "in conjunction with DARPA", but I wonder whether they'll actually be anymore accurate than the DIY ones I linked. I think the Control VR guys said that theirs track to 1/10th of a degree, or something like that?

[gambitvr]

Here's a great video of Control VR in use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jgAJcmmlVs
Iron man was the perfect choice for their tech demo lol

[Balmung]

The Project looks really good so far, but too expensive for me right now for a Product we didn't know if it could survive on the VR Market.

We didn't know what other Products came until VR (Rift/Morpheus) comes really out for the Market (I bet not before XMas 2015). There could come other, better and cheaper Solutions that are than the Standard and not this one. 600$ is too much for the Mass Market.

If they could get cheaper later, than it had a good Chance.

I think the Control VR guys said that theirs track to 1/10th of a degree, or something like that?

Correct

[ThePhilosopher]

600$ is too much for the Mass Market.

But WE are not the mass market
Quite interested by this, I'm still deciding whether I'm jumping into this or not

After seen the video, I didn't get some elements inside it:
The use of the thing on your chest is the module doing IR tracking, is that right?
Does it have to be always on your chest? Can't we have it in front of you, under the screen for example?

Last but not least, are there other projects of VR gloves so near completion like this one? (I'm more interested by fingers tracking, not arms tracking in fact).

[cybereality]

I think the chest thing is basically a control box. So it does the processing, etc.

[ThePhilosopher]

and what about a DIY version of this thing? Compared to the ultra expensive pro version of the last version of VR gloves, it seems to be cheap and effective at the same time
Nobody knows how they did it ? Would it be possible to assemble our own version of this technology?
It would be so great!

[cybereality]

They just use tiny IMUs at all the major joints. Then they use a forward kinematic model to estimate the position of the points. The concept has been well known for a while. I guess you could try to DIY it, but it would still probably cost a little bit.

[mickman]

SO I wonder if CVR can be used in conjunction with The STEM system by Sixense ?

Worth noting is Palmer Lucky's comment at E3 "a bit too Puppet like "

[blazespinnaker]

Where did he make that comment?

Lots of very favorable community comments:

http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments ... pressions/

They seemed to have a great showing at E3 from what I can tell.

Just a few days left on the Kickstarter. Get in while you still can!