[sldev] Anyone here with OpenCV experience?

[Tigro Spottystripes]

perhaps instead of discarding the stuff that went a bit off topic,
wouldn't it be better to branch the conversation instead?

Celierra Darling escreveu:
> I think we could be getting way way ahead of ourselves here.  Before
> judging whether this or that library is good, what exactly is the
> application(s) being discussed?  There seems to be a bunch of multiple
> takes on things.
>  
> The one I was personally expecting at the start of the thread was the
> thing that was dicussed once before [1] -- something like Johnny Lee's
> Wiimote hack [2], but without the Wiimote hack.  For such an
> application, it's not obvious to me that there's a need for detection
> of, say, pitch, yaw, or roll, other than maybe being robust to their
> presence.  (For example, if you roll your head, both the in-world
> camera and your real-world head are already rotating -- so why should
> the orientation of the world change with respect to the orientation of
> the screen?  It's not like the screen is moving along with your
> head.)  Something pretty basic would probably be okay.
>  
> Another take seems to be like treating movements like generic gestures
> and mapping them to commands or controls with less constraint. 
> Something like TrackIR seems to try to exaggerate all the motions,
> even stuff like roll.
>  
> Yet another take includes mouth and eye movements, etc. like that
> Logitech demo.  I agree that this would be very nice, but this seems
> like it'd need server-side support too to be useful, and maybe it's
> outside the scope of what was intended....
>  
> I think we need to settle on our expectations before figuring out
> which libraries are best.
>  
> [1]
> https://lists.secondlife.com/pipermail/sldev/2008-September/011863.html
> [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
>  
> Celi
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Stickman <stickman at gmail.com
> <mailto:stickman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     This is a huge thread for a feature I wouldn't use....<snip>
>
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