[sldev] Anyone here with OpenCV experience?

[Melinda Green]

Jan Ciger wrote:
> [...]
> It would then be trivial to interface basically anything to SL, if the
> viewer would take camera matrix and allow avatar control from outside.
> And Lindens wouldn't have to maintain the device specific stuff neither.

I think some people are misunderstanding what is being asked for here. I 
could be wrong myself but my understanding is that Philip and Merov's 
intent is to simply translate user head movements into avatar gestures. 
Even something as simple as recognizing when the user appears to be 
nodding "yes" or shaking their head "no" and then triggering the 
appropriate gestures would be extremely cool and worth implementing. I 
didn't interpret anything in what was asked to suggest controlling the 
camera, tracking gazes, or anything else. It certainly looks as if all 
sorts of interesting ideas are being generated and should definitely be 
captured. I certainly don't want to stop the brainstorming, but I think 
it would be helpful to first see how we could most easily trigger head 
gestures from video input before we attempt to design the best, most 
powerful API and implementations for full VR/MC support in SL.

-Melinda