On Fri, 12 May 2006, alexander babichev wrote:
Head tracking is very handy for formation flying too. I'm using TrackIR
device and I'm going to add TrackIR support to FlightGear. I've got TrackIR
SDK from NaturalPoint. Unfortunately, it is impossible to use TrackIR SDK in
open source project. I've got permission to make small binary only wrapper
for TrackIR and employ some sort of IPC to allow FlightGear communicate with
TrackIR.
Hi!
Head tracking would be a great addition.
I have some ideas that ARToolkit
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/artoolkit/
could be used as a cheap (but CPU heavy) way to implement it.
ARToolkit uses a webbcam to track the position and orientation of special
figure cards (which could e.g. be glued to a cap or ones forehead :)
ARToolkit is available under the GPL license.
It could be a good idea to define some kind of suitable interface
(networkbased?) between FlightGear and the/a tracking module -
that way we could allow tracking without tying it to some specific device.
Is TrackIR available for Linux, IRIX and other platforms?
Cheers,
Anders
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