Interesting interview with +John Carmack on Oculus Rift – new dev kit, position tracking … (Via @fdoganis) Oculus Rift’s John Carmack says a new Rift dev kit is in the works, sees consumer model running Android (video) Oculus Rift’s new Chief Technology Officer John Carmack says a new Oculus Rift dev kit is in the… Read More: Interesting interview with +John Carmack on Oculus Rift – new… »
Some more technical info about #CastAR (thanks to @nchan) Testing the CastAR Augmented Reality Glasses – Tested.com Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson, the inventors of the CastAR augmented reality glasses, stop by our offices to talk about the project’s Kickstarter, their latest hardware prototypes, and how they envision gamers using augmented reality in their homes.… Read More: Some more technical info about #CastAR (thanks to @nchan) »
Excellent post-mortem from +Jeri Ellsworth on CastAR: CastAR VR / AR System – The 18 Month Story View this post on Google+
Interview with +Jeri Ellsworth on CastAR (starts at 7:38)http://revision3.com/tekzilla/cast-ar-vr-demo 3D Gaming Glasses That Don’t Suck! Stop YouTube Buffering Problems. Make Animated GIFs from Video Clips. Access Your Hard Drives Anywhere. 3D Gaming Technology That Doesn’t Suck! Stop YouTube Buffering Problems. Make Animated GIFs from Any Video Clip. Access Your Hard Drives Over the Internet. Best… Read More: Interview with +Jeri Ellsworth on CastAR (starts at 7:38) »
Razer Hydra is a pretty decent 6DOF tracker (position + orientation) for the price, so a natural choice. However, the controllers do not lend themselves very well for tracking props or an HMD due to their size and shape and no different sensor is available from Razer. Some people have attempted to disassemble the controller… Read More: Razer Hydra HMD hack »
This post will look at the hardware inside the GameTrak and describe how to mod it to make it work with a PC if you happen to have the most common Playstation 2 version.
I have released version libndofdev-0.3 after two years. It seems that the kernel developers have changed the Linux input driver and the SpaceNavigator sends the more logical EV_ABS instead of EV_REL events in recent kernels (confirmed in 2.6.35). This version supports both cases. I have also updated the example in the SpaceNavigator post accordingly. Download… Read More: libndofdev-0.3 »
Existing SpaceNavigator Support 3DConnexion makes a nice 6DOF device reminiscent of the old SGI Spaceball – a 6DOF joystick (3 translations + 3 rotations/twists).