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 <stick...@gmail.com > <mailto:stick...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > This is a huge thread for a feature I wouldn't use....<snip> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
