On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, AJ MacLeod wrote: > On Thursday 22 June 2006 23:24, Anders Gidenstam wrote: >> Anyway, I put the thing on the web here: >> http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/HeadTracking/ >> in case anyone wants to try it out (or, hopefully, improve it.. :) > > Just thought I'd mention that I tried your preivous headtracking program with > some degree of "success" - it zoomed in/out fairly reliably at least...
Nice to hear! With the newer version you'll get some kind of view rotations too. On my system I seem to get interruptions in the video stream which stops the tracking now and then - but I think that is a resource or driver issue rather than a program bug (my old Philips webcam uses the since long discontinued pwc driver). Still, for me the tracker enhanced the Spitfire piloting experience (though the interruptions in tracking are fairly upsetting - like being forced to look at the oil pressure gauge for 20-30 seconds while in flight..). In the long run I think there should be some kind of configuration phase where the user gets to define which head locations coresponds to e.g. straight ahead, right/left 45 degrees, up/down 45 degrees or something like that. From such information it should be possible to construct some nice and smooth mapping from marker location to view direction and magnification. That would also allow a 45 degree head rotation to rotate the view 90 degrees or more, which could be useful. One could also imagine using two or three marker cards to get improved tracking. Cheers, Anders -- "In a world without fences, who needs gates?" Email: anders(at)gidenstam.org WWW: http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
