[sldev] Hooking the wii up to SL for head (body?) tracking

Tim Shephard tshephard at gmail.com
Sun Dec 23 15:29:47 PST 2007


A pretty interesting project:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

My guess is that if you projected a very large secondlife screen onto
a wall, it would be an interesting effect if the client could use this
to project where you are in the room relative to your avatar's
location in SecondLife in mouselook.

I don't think this does much for tracking the angle of your head
relative to your body, so you'd probably have to stiff neck it.  Maybe
there is a way to do that with a third infrared LED (the wii can track
up to 4, apparently).   If not, there is a fascinating use of a
gyroscope which might be of use:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2237947353453839215&q=rc+plane+vr+goggles&total=8&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

Anyhow, cool stuff.


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